Wine Industry News
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(WashingtonPost) - What happens when a conservative community, hesitant to change its ways and dependent for its livelihood on the slow cycle of the seasons, meets an innovator accustomed to rapid transformations in the way people live, work and communicate? Now that Steve and Jean Case of America ... -
(Chinadaily) - Three billion yuan will be invested in the establishment of the first wine industrial park in Dalian. The signing ceremony of the International Wine Industrial Park project was held at the city’s Shangri-la Hotel on December 6. The three parties involved, the Administrative Commi...China: Dalian invests 3 billion yuan to brew the world’s top-grade wine
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(AFP) - A remote region of northern China that began growing grapes for fine wine just a decade ago has beaten the centuries-old French wine-producing region of Bordeaux in a blind tasting held in Beijing. A group of wine experts -- five French and five Chinese -- ranked the bottles from the remo...Chinese wines beat Bordeaux in blind tasting
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(NYTimes) - ALONG with top 10 lists, columns on sparkling wines (next week’s treat) and gift roundups, the end of the year would not be complete without a torrent of new books on wine and spirits. Here are four of the most notable. The rise of natural wines over the last five years has provoked on...Wine Books Worth Reading
December, 13, 2011 -
(WSJ) - Is it possible that the Chinese love affair with first growth Bordeaux and Chateau Lafite in particular, is on the rocks? Recent auction results suggest that this may be the case, and that the Lafite phenom was something of a speculative bubble. Not as extreme a bubble as, say Dublin real...Downturn in Chinese Wine Collecting?
December, 13, 2011 -
(Decanter) - Robert Parker has called Pancho Campo a 'lightning rod' for controversy as he announced a 'totally transparent' legal investigation into the series of accusations of cash for tasting that have dominated the wine headlines for the past weeks. Parker, publisher of the Wine Advocate, said ...Robert Parker distances himself from Campo as he announces investigation
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(Wines&Vines) - Vineyard owner and manager Davie Piña admitted that persuading vineyard owners to sacrifice vines for the sake of juvenile salmon and river sediment it wasn’t an easy sell. “That was probably the hardest part,” said Piña, owner of Piña Vineyard Management LLC and leader of t...US: Napa Grapegrowers Make a Trade
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(List) - Scotland as a wine producer? The implications of climate change may not make it such a fanciful idea, and Fife chef Christopher Trotter isn't hanging around waiting for proof. Lynda Hamilton talked to him of grape expectations. In the spring of 2011, Christopher Trotter planted a 2.4-hec...The Scottish vineyard making its own wine
December, 13, 2011

