Wine Industry News
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This was meant to be the year Australia's wine industry finally hit rock bottom and started looking up again. That was before our dollar rocketed to $US1.07, and a projected 1.3 million tonne grape crush - the fruit of recent attempts to curb chronic oversupply - gushed to more than 1.6 million ton... -
(AFP) — An Australian winemaker said Friday he was "numb" after a malfunctioning forklift destroyed more than Aus$1 million ($1.1 million) of his prized shiraz. Some 462 cases of the 2010 Mollydooker Velvet Glove Shiraz, which sells for Aus$185 a bottle, smashed to the ground as it was being lo...AUS: Expensive drop as forklift shatters $1.1 mln wine
July, 22, 2011 -
(Bloomberg) -- Buying Napa Valley wine has never been so cheap with Treasury Wine Estates Ltd. selling at less than 80 cents on the dollar. The world’s second-largest winemaker, which owns Beringer Vineyards and Stags’ Leap Winery, was spun off by Foster’s Group Ltd. in May after it rejected a...Wine Never Cheaper as Bidders Circle Foster’s Spinoff: Real M&A
July, 22, 2011 -
A new film set in a French chateau - and starring the real Chateau Clos Fourtet - opens next month in French cinemas. Tu Seras Mon Fils (You Will Be My Son) deals with the conflict between a fictitious chateau owner and his son. It was almost entirely filmed at the Saint Emilion Premier Grand Cru...France: Clos Fourtet and staff star in new wine movie
July, 22, 2011 -
Ontario’s wine makers are fighting to protect their grapes against Mother Nature’s wrath. The destructive forces of climate change are already being felt in the world’s biggest wine-producing regions – California, Europe and Australia – as the steady rise in global temperatures scorches...Canada: Climate change threatens to spoil Ontario’s signature wines
July, 21, 2011 -
An oversupply of New Zealand wine blended with high levels of bulk wine sales, a strong dollar and tough competition has hit the NZ Wine Company's bottom line. The company said it expects an underlying loss before revaluations and income tax for the June 2011 year of up to $1.3 million. NZWC c...Tough conditions hit NZ Wine Company
July, 21, 2011 -
Wine labels can be a little like cryptic crosswords: unfathomable, infuriating and intimidating. Browsing the shelves of one of my favorite local wine merchants, a cozy little shop in London where the wines are stacked in bins that stretch from the floor to the ceiling, I was faced with a scrambl...How to Read a Wine Label
July, 21, 2011 -
What would it be worth to the North Coast wine industry to remove hundreds of freight-hauling trucks from congested highways and ship wine and supplies via rail? Northern California railroad investors are betting years of effort and millions of dollars on that question, while waiting for wineries an...US: Rail Opens for North Coast Wine Freight
July, 21, 2011

