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New Vintage of Germany’s Highest Quality Wines Makes its Debut
Berlin…..For the sixth consecutive year, the Prädikat Wine Estates invited the wine world to Berlin on 1 September for the annual market release of Germany’s highest quality wines – ERSTE LAGE.
Continue reading ‘Premiere of ERSTE LAGE Wines of the Prädikat Wine Estates – Expression of a new era of Wine Culture’
Fortune Brands, Inc. (NYSE:FO), a leading consumer brands company, today declared a regular dividend of 42 cents per share on the Common Stock, payable in cash on December 3, 2007, to stockholders of record at the close of business November 7, 2007.
Continue reading ‘Fortune Brands declares regular dividend’
The Wine Industry Drought Taskforce, the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia (WFA) and Wine Grape Growers’ Australia (WGGA) have recently announced that the 2008 harvest is likely to fall to between 800,000 tonnes and 1.3 million tonnes. The range of the estimated shortfall points to the difficulty in accurately determining an early insight into actual yields.
Continue reading ‘Revised forecast for the Australian wine sector’
The 2008 Australian winegrape vintage could be down by more than 50% if current unfavourable seasonal conditions continue.
Continue reading ‘Drought hits Australian harvest’
Consideration of the draft report in the EP agriculture committee: 9 October 2007 (Brussels)
Deadline for tabling amendments: 18 October 2007 at noon
Adoption of the draft report in the agriculture committee: 21 November 2007 (Bruxelles)
Adoption of the EP report in plenary: December 2007 (10-13/12 session in Strasbourg)
The American Vineyard Foundation (AVF) and National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) have reached an
agreement for the AVF to manage the André Tchelistcheff & Dr. Richard Peterson Scholarship funds for students studying Viticulture and Enology in the University of California system.
Continue reading ‘AVF Assumes Administration of Tchelistcheff and Peterson Viticulture & Enology Scholarships’
The publishers of Fine Wine magazine have put their Spring 2007 issue online at www.finewinemagazine.com
The first three in an Australia-wide series of WineSkills workshops have been scheduled for South Australian and Victorian wineries in October. Interested participants are strongly encouraged to register early to secure their attendance at these sessions.
Continue reading ‘New Wineskills Workshops’
Small Winery Label Scoops Top Sauvignon Medal
Continue reading ‘Top Sauvignon Blanc from Chile crowned’
Strong sales and profit margin growth | Sales: € 6,443 million (+9.1%*) | Operating profit from ordinary activities: € 1,447 million (+21%*) | Profit from ordinary activities (Group share): € 833 million (+24%**) | Net profit (Group share): € 831 million (+30%)
The Pernod Ricard Board of Directors’ meeting of 19 September 2007, chaired by Patrick Ricard, approved the financial statements for the 2006/07 financial year ended 30 June 2007. The 2006/07 fiscal year was a highly successful year for Pernod Ricard, marked by:
At the International Wine Challenge awards dinner, held on 12th September at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, Alliance Wine were named recipients of the Specialist Australian Merchant Award.
Continue reading ‘Alliance Wine voted best specialist Australian merchant’
Argentine winery wins multiple medals at Decanter 2007 World Wine Awards.
Continue reading ‘Andeluna Cellars awarded Decanter hightest honour’
Fiona Donald has been appointed Group Red Winemaker at the Hardy Wine Company.
Continue reading ‘New Group Winemaker at Hardy’
The wine industry is riding high on a wave of Sauvignon Blanc, the wondrous grape variety that in Marlborough is perfectly suited to industrial production on a large scale, driving profits for factory wine producers as energetically as it drives export volumes. But the first wine industry benchmarking report by international consultants Deloitte suggests that the fast ride to success offered by sauvignon blanc could lead to a fall unless wine producers tend to their long-term prospects.
Continue reading ‘Sauvignon Blanc - a saviour for New Zealand?’
An audition on the reform of wine at the Agriculture Commission in Brussels.
Experts and representatives have strongly criticised the proposed reforms by the European Commission, following a meeting recently organised by the Agriculture Commission in Brussels. Most of the speakers pleaded for a more ambitious political stance promoting wines with an emphasis on their rather than for grubbing up vineyards. Quarrels over the question of Chaptilisation - a north-south divide - were asked to be put aside. Giuseppe Castiglione indicated he would take into account the advice received when he reports on 21 November.
Continue reading ‘Focus on quality required to escape the European wine crisis’
* Solid revenue performance and improvement in the price mix
* Recurring operating profit up 41.2%
The Board of Directors of Vranken-Pommery Monopole met on September 10, 2007 to approve the Group’s financial statements for the six months that ended on June 30, 2007. The meeting was chaired by Paul-François Vranken and attended by the company’s auditors.
Continue reading ‘Vranken-Pommery Monopole: First-Half 2007 Results’
Australia’s most awarded wine maker - last night continued its commanding presence at capital city wine shows, with Houghton taking out “Most Successful Western Australian Exhibitor” at the 2007 Perth Wine Show for the seventh time since 1999.
Continue reading ‘Hardy produces commanding performance at Perth Wine Show’
Champagne Bollinger has announced the appointment of Jérôme Philipon who joined the managerial team on 3rd September 2007 as Managing Director, with responsibility for Business Development.
Continue reading ‘New Managing Director for Bollinger’
5th annual international competition between the best Sparkling Wines in the world.
Registration are now open for the inscriptions of the 5th edition of Effervescents du Monde® competition.
Effervescents du Monde® 2007 will take place the 15 and 16 of November, 2007 in Dijon,, Burgundy (France). Producers of Sparkling wines who wish to present their products have until 19 of October, 2007 to register, for that two options:
Continue reading ‘Invitation to producers of sparkling wines’
The Institute of Masters of Wine is delighted to announce a new scholarship, the Yalumba Scholarship, worth up to £3,000. Yalumba, Australia’s oldest family owned winery, recognizes the challenges that the Institute’s internationalization efforts encounter and is excited to offer its support.
Continue reading ‘Yalumba Scholarship 2008′
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