The Decanter World Wine Awards recognised the powerful changes of the 21st
Century wine world on Monday 1st of September, as it announced for the
first time an Organic and Biodynamic wine merchant as its Specialist
Independent Merchant of the Year .
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Elevated Fruit — the Foundation for new wines from Two Hands Napa
Continue reading ‘Aussie Shiraz leader Two Hands unveils Napa Cabernets
Before Lana Shekim does the week’s shopping, she likes to stop off at the self-service place in her Washington neighborhood for a top-up. We’re not talking cars here; she doesn’t have one.
Nor is her local self-service place a petrol station where you pump your own gasoline.
It’s a wine bar.
Continue reading ‘Wine with a twist at Washington’s 1st self-service wine bar’
BulgarianWine.com introduces America to emerging quality wines from former eastern Europe.
Continue reading ‘Marketer of premium Bulgarian wines tops $1 million in internet sales’
Legacy Wine and Spirits International Ltd. (OTC BB:LWSP.OB - News) reports that it has signed an agreement with Legacy Wine and Spirits Merchants Ltd (”Legacy Merchants”), a Hong Kong-based Company, for the rights to a fifteen (15) year general license to import, bottle, blend, manufacture and distribute wine and spirits in China.
Continue reading ‘Legacy acquires license to sell wine and spirits in China’
Bordeaux’s Château Haut Bailly and the city’s oldest bookshop,
Mollat, will launch the first château based specialist bookshop.
Continue reading ‘Bordeaux château opens book and wine tasting boutique’
34 of the UK’s leading independent retailers will be pouring a selection of Chianti Classico wines free of charge
in-store for their customers during the weekend of 26-27 January as part of the Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico’s
Black Rooster Wines tasting weekend.
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Like for like UK sales at Majestic were up 1.2% for the nine weeks of Christmas trading from 30 October to 31 December 2007.
Continue reading ‘UK: Majestic Wine plc Christmas trading statement’
The 13th Wine Industry Outlook Conference, titled “Wine Australia: Flying the Flag”, was held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre on Tuesday 27 November.
Continue reading ‘UK: Tesco looks for fresh personality’
Profit before tax increased by 14.1% to £16.2m and total Group sales were up 11.0% to £191.2m with like for like UK sales growing 4.9%.
Continue reading ‘Majest Wine plc Annual Report 2006/7′
For more than half a century, Adams Liquor Handbook has offered accurate, in-depth and timely information available on the U.S. distilled spirits market. With more than 400 tables, graphs and maps, Adams Liquor Handbook 2007 provides detailed sales and consumption statistics on the dynamic distilled spirits market. The user friendly CD-ROM contains tables in Excel format.
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Ranked #1 Online Wine Store for Third Straight Year
Continue reading ‘Wine.com named to Internet Retailer 500 list’
L’As du vin: A contemporary, young and relaxed approach to
wine Continue reading ‘Ace of Wine - new retailer in France’
New Study Indicates France and Italy Fastest-Growing Regions
Continue reading ‘Wine.com customers prefer imports’
Aug 8-10, 2007, Beijing, China
Organizer:
China Agricultural University (CAU)
CVEA (China Viticulture & Enology Association)
OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine)
CADIA (China Alcoholic Drinks Industry Association)
Continue reading ‘International workshop on Chinese wine market and wine related products’
O’Brien Cellars announced the launch of Wine for Hope, an online wine retail store designed to help raise funds for Academy of Friends, an organization dedicated to raising funds granted to a diverse set of HIV/AIDS direct care and prevention education agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wine for Hope automatically donates 20% of all sales to Academy of Friends.
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With the right approach, wine suppliers and retailers have the potential to significantly increase consumer spend on wine, according to the findings of the WineNation research programme commissioned by Constellation Europe and conducted by Wine Intelligence, the independent wine insight company.
Continue reading ‘WineNation research paves the way for wine category growth’
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