Wine Industry News
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(Scoop) - Nathan Guy is continuing the Government’s drunken spending on the flawed Primary Growth Partnership by announcing funding for low-calorie wines that are already being sold in the supermarket, Labour's Primary Industries spokesperson Damien O'Connor says. “The Primary Growth... -
(SMH) - The former boss of the world's biggest winemaker, Treasury Wine Estates, has warned that Australia's highly fragmented wine sector needed to consolidate to give it enough muscle to push back against the supermarket duopolies Woolworths and Coles who were demanding fatter profits for themsel...AUS: Wine warning from former Treasury boss
November, 27, 2013 -
(CNET) - Tucked somewhere in the Amazon campus in Seattle, there is a room that has holds some very important racks of wine. The bottles are handled carefully. With gloved hands, an Amazon photographer pulls each one off a wire rack and then photographs it so that online shoppers can see each bo...From Bordeaux to Warhol: How Amazon goes high-brow
November, 26, 2013 -
(TDB) - Cognac producer Hennessy has successfully sued Beijing Yan Wei Hong Trading Cooperation for trademark infringement and unfair competition. The Beijing No 3 Intermediate People’s Court accepted the case, according to ChinaNews.com . Societe Jas Hennessy registered its trademark ...Hennessy wins Chinese trademark case
November, 26, 2013 -
(Lewrockwell) - There are few ailments that can ruin your night faster than a wine headache. A dull thudding starts in the back of your neck and slowly pulses its way to the middle of your forehead. Game over. Worse still is the next morning when you wake up with a wine hangover. So… ...Wines Least Likely to Give You a Hangover
November, 26, 2013 -
(VancouverSun) - A winery in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley that became North America's first ice wine producer more than three decades ago says thieves broke in during the weekend and walked away with more than $30,000 of ice wine. Walter Huber of Hainle Vineyards Estate Winery in Peachland...British Columbia: Thieves walk away with more than $30,000 of ice wine from Okanagan winery
November, 26, 2013 -
(TDB) - UK drinks group Diageo has offered to sell the bulk of its Whyte & Mackay whisky business to ease competition concerns that have been raised by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The sale offer comes amid fears that Diageo’s continued ownership of the Whyte & Mackay business...Diageo offers to sell Whyte & Mackay
November, 26, 2013 -
(TheNewsTribune) - Canadian company has scooped up about a fifth of the land available for sale in a prime wine grape growing area on Red Mountain near Benton City. Aquilini Properties, owned by a family who also owns the Vancouver Canucks, bought all 670 acres of undeveloped land that Ken...Canadian company buys all 670 acres of Red Mountain land
November, 26, 2013

