Monday, May 15, 2006

Top Bordeaux – over the top?

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This period of the year is traditionally full of news about the “primeur” tastings of the latest vintage in Bordeaux. You will find...
Thursday, May 04, 2006

This month's must-have wine gadget: Inventor of rapid “cooling funnel” wins Electrolux prize

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CoolBoy is a sort of electric cooling funnel invented by Ian Thompson, a university student in Britain. Thompson was tired of having hi...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Mumm launches prestige champagne: Mumm Grand Cru

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Mumm recently launched a prestige champagne called, simply, Mumm Grand Cru. They only made 2300 hl (30,000 bottles) of the first “...

Instant Champagne knowledge

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Champagne covers about 33,000 hectares (e.g. the equivalent of a third of Bordeaux). The main sub-districts are: Montagne de ...

Constellation (finally) buys Vincor – giant’s acquisition in wine

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Constellation Brands (NYSE: STZ), one of the world’s largest wine producers (if not the biggest), buys Vincor (TSX: VN), a Canadian com...

Wine Evolution 2006

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Every year since 1999, the two last days in January there is a conference in Paris called Wine Evolution, organised by Skalli & Rei...

Wine Boom & Bust?

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While large parts of the wine marking world (France, Australia, California,...) seem to have great problems with over production c...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Invest in wine cheaply – in Fenouilledes

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That is one of the arguments in a recent press release from the wine growers in Fenouilledes (Languedoc-Roussillon). The other argument...

Masculine wine

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No, it is not Hermitage or Côte Rôte (sometimes called the most “masculine” of wines, as opposed to more feminine wines like ...

How to survive a wine harvest

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If you are thinking of taking part in the grape harvest this autumn, now is the time to organise it. But you should not think...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

Norway launches wine production scheme according to BBR.com

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Norway has started a vineyard close to the village Ugotterby. The Norwegian minister responsible for wine questions Loof Lirpa (NB!) ex...

Auction prices go upwards at Sotheby’s

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Some encouraging or discouraging (depending on if you are buying or selling) prices from Sotheby’s recent auction L06603 (98.5% of all ...

Champagne with screw cork?

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No, at least for the moment that is unlikely. But the champagne growers’ association (CIVC) has created a project group to st...

The wine fair in Brussels cancelled

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Brussels Wine Expo has been cancelled according to information on their site. Perhaps there are too many wine shows around the world n...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006

World’s best Tempranillo

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On May 22-24 the World’s Best Tempranillo competition will be held i Cologne. The competition is organised by a Spanish ...

Salaries up 5.8% in the wine business

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According to a report from Wine Business Monthly and Western Management Group salaries have gone up with on average 5.8% in the wine in...

More on the wine agreement between the EU and the US

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Recently we mentioned that the long discussed agreement between the EU and the US on wine has been signed. This is supposed to decrease...

The genetic code of Pinot Noir established

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A group Italian researchers at the agricultural research institute Michele all’Adige have identified the genome (the genetic ...

René Renou reappointed chairman of the INAO

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René Renou will continue as chairman of the semi-governmental control authority INAO (Institut National des Appellations d’Origine) tha...
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Screaming Eagle in California sold

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The Californian cult vineyard Screaming Eagle has just changed hands. Charles Banks and Stanley Kroenke, two financiers, acqu...