The 15th annual Chardonnay du Monde® wine competition was held between 12 and 15 of March 2008 at Château des Ravatys, the wine estate of the Pasteur Institute at Saint-Lager in the Burgundy wine (France)
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Industries produce $3 billion annually for state.
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Operational improvement on the new subsidiaries. BCC1 achieved a clear improvement in its performance over 2007, with 51.97 million euros in EBIT, an operating margin representing 14.5% of revenues, and strong growth in net income (Group share), up to 21.37 million euros.2
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- ABOUT BOIZEL CHANOINE CHAMPAGNE
Listed on EUROLIST, Compartment B, Boizel Chanoine Champagne fully owns seven Champagne Houses:
- Champagne Boizel (Epernay), French mail-order market leader, with wines distributed in the
traditional sector for international markets.
- Champagne Chanoine Frères (Reims), wines intended primarily for the mass retail market (Chanoine brand), notably with the Tsarine Grande Cuvée range.
- Champagne Philipponnat (Mareuil sur Aÿ), which owns the prestigious Clos des Goisses, with wines available on selective retail markets.
- Champagne De Venoge (Epernay), also sold on selective retail markets, notably with its new Louis XV vintage.
- Champagne Alexandre Bonnet (Les Riceys), owner of a vast vineyard (wine sold in traditional sectors), as well as the Ferdinand Bonnet brand.
- Maison Burtin (Epernay), a mass retail supplier and owner of the Besserat de Bellefon brand, distributed through traditional networks (restaurants, wine stores).
- Champagne Lanson (Reims), the prestigious international brand. [↩] - Stock market chart [↩]
Forbes.com has published an article which highlights maverick sommeliers from all corners of the globe who are feeding oenophiles’ appetites with lists of inventive pairings and off-the-beaten track bottles. The link below lists which are among the world’s best.
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Champagne Ayala long unavailable in the U.S., is now for sale at New York City retailers for the first time. Ayala is also now being poured in several of the country’s top-tier restaurants including the Champagne Bar in the newly restored Plaza Hotel in New York City.
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The relatively young Indian wine sector is looking to Australia and other places around the world to help it meet increasing demand for quality wine in India.
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A 6 per cent increase in all alcohol duty rates will come into effect on 17 March 2008. This will add 14 pence to the price of a bottle of wine. In order to ensure that alcohol duties keep pace with rising incomes alcohol duty rates will increase by 2 per cent above the rate of inflation in future years.
The national committee of INAO have studied and unanimously approved the extension of the AOC Champagne. The project will now be submitted to a public enquiry and an ‘opposition’ procedure in order to take account of all parties.
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The New Zealand Wine Company (NZWC), makers of Grove Mill, Sanctuary and Frog Haven wines, has achieved carbon neutral recertification under the world leading carboNZeroCERT TM programme.
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Mentzendorff were delighted to welcome 200 guests to their celebratory dinner last night at TATE Britain, marking the 150th Anniversary of the company’s association with Champagne Bollinger. The venue was chosen for its location opposite the Mentzendorff offices, which are situated on the South bank of the Thames and pre-dinner tasting included examples of extremely rare wines from each of their agencies such as Bollinger RD 1976 and Taylor’s 1948 Vintage Port.
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Proposal for a Regulation (EC) No …/… of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the general rules on the definition, description and presentation of aromatized wines, aromatized wine-based drinks and aromatized wine-product cocktails (Recast) /* COM/2007/0848 final - COD 2007/0287 */
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FINE Design Group, a West Coast-based design and technology company, and Foster’s Wine Estates Americas, a leading Napa-based premium wine company, announced the launch of eWineMatch.com, completing the first real-time food and wine pairing service available via both the web and mobile phone channels.
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Waitrose has today announced that it will be the first UK retailer to plant vines in England. The vines will be planted in the next year on the retailers own 4,000 acre farm, The Leckford Estate, in Hampshire. Customers will need to be patient though, as this English Fizz will not debut on the shelves at Waitrose until 2014.
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The Center for Wine Origins recently announced the grand prize winners of the Second Annual “Celebrate the Grape” Sweepstakes. From a record 13,300 plus submissions by Americans who demonstrated their knowledge of the importance of wine origins, three grand prize winners were awarded trips to the world-class winemaking regions of Champagne, France; Porto, Portugal (home of Port); and Jerez, Spain (home of Sherry).
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On 15 and 16 February 2008 the Wine Academy of Spain hosted the 2nd World Congress on Climate Change and Wine at the Hesperia Tower Hotel in Barcelona.
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U.S. wine exports, 95 percent from California, reached a record high $951 million in 2007, an 8.6 percent jump from the previous year. Volume shipments in 2007 increased 12 percent to 453 million liters, compared to 2006.
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In the February edition of Revista de Vinhos, Portuguese wine magazine, the magazine lists the very best of 2007. Douro and Port Wines were awarded in several categories such as Company of the Year, Vinicultural Organization and Excellence Wines, wines that were unanimously acclaimed by the tasters. Here is the complete list of awards given to Douro and Port Wines.
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