Elevated Fruit — the Foundation for new wines from Two Hands Napa
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Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from top Monterey Wine regions.
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From Western Australia’s most awarded winery, comes a new range of wines in The Bandit.
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Napa, California – White Rocket Wine Company is launching Geode, a new-generation, super-premium Chardonnay fusing timeless quality and contemporary style in a strikingly sophisticated package targeted to savvy young wine consumers. Geode is crafted from vineyards in Santa Barbara County, a classic growing region whose stellar Chardonnays are universally recognized for superior quality. With its warm, inviting label, aura of earthy energy and promise of rich, pure flavor, Geode beckons wine lovers to “discover the treasure within.”
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Don Sebastiani & Sons International Wine Negociant recently announced the release of a new luxury Napa Valley label, Pennywise. This year, the winery will release a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and a Napa Valley Petite Sirah; production on both wines is extremely limited. Pennywise will be marketed by the company’s The Other Guys division.
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Mentzendorff are delighted to announce the release of a completely new Rosé from Champagne Bollinger. The creation of this non-vintage rosé has been long in the making and a dream of the House for almost a decade. This wine has evolved not as a curiosity, but as with all of the Bollinger cuvées, as a careful assembly of the very finest ingredients by their talented, passionate team.
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Vare Vineyards announced its release of the only Ribolla Gialla produced in the United States. Vintners George and Elsa Vare have added Ribolla Gialla to their suite of Italian white varietals
Pinot Grigio and Bianco (proprietary blend of five white varietals, including Pinot Grigio, Ribolla Gialla, Tocai Friulano, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay). The grape, grown primarily in the Collio region of Friuli, Italy and Slovenia, dates back to the 13th century.
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Jacob’s Creek® is delighted to announce the release of the Shiraz Rosé 2006 (suggested retail price: $7.99), now available nationwide in the USA.
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Snows Lake Vineyard, a premier vineyard in the Red Hills Lake County AVA, announced it has released a limited bottling of two wines under its own label: 2004 Snows Lake One, a Cabernet Sauvignon; and 2004 Snows Lake Two, a Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc blend. Total
production of these wines is under 250 cases each.
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Robert Mondavi Private Selection (RMPS) announces the launch of Vinetta, a red wine blend made with the five classic Bordeaux varietals of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and Cabernet Franc. Inspired by Robert Mondavi’s European travels of the early 1960s, this stylish red wine was created to offer consumers a chance to explore and discover something new from a trusted, quality leader like RMPS. Vinetta is the first Bordeaux blend to join the RMPS portfolio.
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Crushpad, the urban winery that is democratizing winemaking, today announced Crushpad Commerce - the industry’s first “brand incubator” that helps turn people’s passion for wine into a business. As part of the service, Crushpad is hosting a Wine Branding and Sales Workshop for over 50 clients in the process of launching their wine brands. The event is taking place on April 21, 2007 at Crushpad’s new 30,000 square foot winery in San Francisco.
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One of France’s fastest rising wine brands, Fruité Catalan, is set to launch in the UK later this year.
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Combining learning-based reality television with consumer winemaking, Doc City Productions and Crushpad today announced their agreement to collaborate in the production of the public television series THE WINE MAKERS. Portions of the program
will be set in Crushpad’s new San Francisco winery where the winning wine will be made.
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Over 400 wines created in 2006 harvest
For its third harvest, Crushpad has produced 15,000 cases of luxury-class wine for its rapidly growing client base. This represents over 400 distinct wines, making Crushpad the world’s leader in wine brand creation. From September through November 2006, hundreds of new winemakers flew in from across the country to see their passion for wine turn into their own boutique wine. Many more participated remotely via the Internet using Crushpad’s interactive webcams and http://www.crushnet.com, Crushpad’s online community for winemaking.
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Freixenet USA has released Premius Bordeaux Clairet 2005 ($10) a dry rosé wine from Bordeaux. This new release joins the well-known Premius Bordeaux line, which includes the varietally-labeled Merlot-Cabernet Sauvignon blend and a Sauvignon Blanc.
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“Wine increasingly is becoming a consumer good, not a cultural exception,” said Pierre Courbon, international marketing director at OVS, a French company that was created to sell a new wine brand, Chamarr?, which aims to go head-to-head with consumer favorites from Australia, California, Chile and elsewhere. “Beer, spirits, vegetables, dairy products and even bread is branded. Why not wine?”
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René Barbier, producers of the po