Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc. (Nasdaq: WVVI), sales revenue increased 56% and Net Income before taxes increased 303% for the three months ended March 31, 2006, as compared to the prior year period.
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Archive for May, 2006
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau proposes to rename the ‘‘Sonoma County Green Valley’’ viticultural area as the ‘‘Green Valley of Russian River Valley’’ viticultural area.
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Standard & Poor’s assigned its ‘B’ long-term corporate credit rating with a stable outlook to France-based Belvedere, a leading producer of alcoholic beverages in Poland.
Continue reading ‘Belvedere’s low rating due to stagnant Polish market’
“Teetotalers live dangerously” according to Dr. Nicolai Worm in his book “Wine Every Day”.
He bases his premise on the results of 30 international, long-term studies that show that people who completely abstain from drinking alcohol completeley have a higher mortality rate than those who consume moderate amounts of alcohol daily.
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Three prestigious wine estates: Tenuta dell’Ornellaia (Bolgheri), Castel Giocondo (Montalcino) and Luce della Vite (Montalcino), all owned by Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi, join together in a new fine wine partnership with SPI Group and Michael Mondavi.
Continue reading ‘Frescobaldi Establishes ‘Tenute di Toscana,’ a Partnership in the Fine Wine Business’
The LVMH Asia Scholarships were created in 1986, giving students at leading French universities an opportunity to submit grant proposals for research on a subject of their choice in a country in the Asia-Pacific region. The winners are selected by a jury comprising LVMH executives, as well as people from outside the Group. They receive a scholarship enabling them to travel to Asia to complete their research and agree to submit a report when they return.
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The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) issued a final rule in the Federal Register adopting a proposed amendment to the regulations pertaining to wine vintage date labeling. The adopted proposal allows (1) wine labeled with an appellation of origin other than a country or viticultural area to bear a vintage date if at least 85 percent of the wine is derived from grapes harvested in the labeled calendar year and (2) retains the current requirement that at least 95 percent of the grapes in a vintagedated wine be harvested in the year shown on the label for wine with an American viticultural area (or its foreign equivalent) as an appellation of origin.
The final rule becomes effective June 1, 2006.
Alexandre de Lur Saluces’s family owned the estate of Château d’Yquem for more than two hundred years. He was the Director of the Château for more than 30 years. Hear about the winemaking and his life at Yquem; the battle he fought to keep the estate in his family before the takeover by LVMH; his relationships with his family; his happiest times and his greatest regrets.
Fabian Cobb met Alexandre de Lur Saluces in Paris and the interview lasts for an hour and a half. For all lovers of Yquem and fine wine this is an interview not to be missed.
Listen HERE on Fine Wine website.
• Discussion with Peter Sisseck of Dominio de Pingus
• Interview with Robert Adler of Le Vin de Bob
• At Ch. Grand-Puy-Lacoste
• Gerard Perse of Ch. Pavie on his style of wine.
• ‘Fly on the wall’ at Ch. Palmer.
• Michel Bettane on Bordeaux 2005.
• Paul Pontallier of Ch. Margaux discussing the qualities of the 2005 vintage.
Fabian Cobb has made a number of podcasts: formal interviews, impromptu meetings and ‘fly on the wall’ recordings. We also have some interviews in French in our new podcast Gens du Vin
A regular quarterly cash dividend of 28.00 cents per share on Class A and Class B Common Stock was voted by the Board of Directors of Brown-Forman Corporation (NYSE: BFB).
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Sausalito police say a wine storage company owner sold off 7,600 bottles of clients’ wine worth as much as $1.5 million, according to a published report.
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The Osborne wine family of Spain has announced the newest addition to their highly successful line of Solaz wines from the Tierra de Castilla region in Spain. Since its debut in 2000, the original Tempranillo-Cabernet has been joined by two other Solaz wines: a Shiraz-Tempranillo blend and a white from 100% Viura. In July 2006, the much-anticipated fourth wine in the line extension, Solaz Merlot Tempranillo, will begin national US distribution.
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Vinexpo Asia-Pacific 2006, an international wines and spirits trade fair dedicated to Asia-Pacific professional visitors, takes place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) from May 23rd to 25th, The show’s organiser, Vinexpo Overseas SAS, is also responsible for Vinexpo Americas, and is a subsidiary of Vinexpo SAS, which has organised the most important biennial trade event, Vinexpo, in Bordeaux (France) every other year since 1981.
The California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) has released the findings of a year long market study of China’s wine industry which paints a picture showing both opportunities and concerns from the viewpoint of the California wine industry.
Continue reading ‘Future of Wine in China Outlined in CAWG Report’
In brisk succession to its triple Gold success at Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, Winecorp’s Spier has won a Gold Medal at both the Decanter World Wine Awards and the International Wine Challenge, in addition to two Silver- and three Bronze Medals at the latter meet.
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Popular Wine Brand Introduces Zinfandel and Sauvignon Blanc Tetra Prisma Wines
Continue reading ‘Vendange launches two new varietals in Tetra Prisma® Container’
Constellation Brands, Inc. has entered into an agreement to sell its Strathmore bottled water business to A.G. Barr p.l.c., the Scottish-based U.K. soft drinks business, for 15 million pounds Sterling. The transaction is expected to close in late May or early June. Strathmore became part of Constellation’s portfolio in 1998 when it acquired U.K. drinks company Matthew Clark plc — now known as Constellation Europe — the U.K.’s leading wine company, independent wholesaler to the on-premise channel and a leading cider producer.
Continue reading ‘Constellation to Sell Strathmore Water to U.K. Firm A.G. Barr p.l.c. for 15 Million Pounds Sterling’
Mission Hill Family Estate, one of British Columbia’s leading wineries with 850 acres of owned vineyards in five distinct growing regions in the Okanagan Valley, has just released its new ‘S.L.C.’ range onto the UK market. The wines are targeted at both the On and Off-Trade.
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At the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton held on May 11, 2006, approval was given for the payment of a net dividend for financial year 2005 of 1.15 Euro per share, representing an increase of 21 % compared to last year.
Taking into account the 0.25 Euro paid on December 2, 2005, the balance of 0.90 Euro will be paid on May 18, 2006.
Lee F. Hager, Vice President, Secretary and Chief Administrative Officer of Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc., the country’s largest wine and spirits distributor with operations in 21 states, and pending in six more states, have announced two senior Human Resources appointments.
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