November, 29, 2011 Treasury Wine goes upmarket in the UK

(WAtoday) - TREASURY Wine Estates has sharpened its focus on premium wines in the crucial British market. It has created a new fine-wine team that will push wines priced above £15 ($A24) to bars and luxury department stores, as well as introduce a range of smaller regional wines not widely avail...

November, 29, 2011 UK: Autumn Statement 2011: 'Government's attack on wine drinkers'

(Telegraph) - Office for Budget Repsonsibility (OBR) forecasts suggests that wine drinkers will pay an extra £1.6bn in duty over the next five years. The OBR said that total wine duty revenue of £3.3bn forecast for the current tax year would rise to £4.9bn in 2016/17. The Chancellor, George Os...

November, 29, 2011 Chinese buyer outbids most for wines of Alain Delon

(Reuters) - French film and stage actor Alain Delon sold a thousand bottles of his wine collection on Saturday with a big Chinese buyer pushing the auction results well above pre-sale estimates. Delon, once called "the male Brigitte Bardot" for his good looks, is one of France's best-selling film...

November, 29, 2011 'The enemy' at bay: scientists crack brett gene code

(Decanter) - Scientists in Australia have sequenced the Brettanomyces genome – a breakthrough that will ‘future-proof’ the industry against spoilage by the yeast organism known as brett. In what the Australian Wine Research Institute is calling a world first for Australian wine, the discovery ...

November, 29, 2011 Wine regions oppose 'catastrophic' EU expansion plans

(Decanter) - European wine growing regions are battling European Commission plans to allow massive vineyard expansion. To boost the wine sector’s competitiveness by reducing production costs, the EU has included an amendment to liberalise planting rights, from January 2016, within proposals for th...

November, 29, 2011 Egg-Shaped Wine Tanks Whet Appetite

(Wines&Vines) - As iconic and seductively curved as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Mo., the egg-shaped wooden fermentor displayed by Bordeaux-based master artisan Joseph François may be the image many visitors will retain of SIMEI 2011. Inundated with interest in his work, Foudrerie Francois direct...

November, 28, 2011 Researcher delays harvest for better wine

(Pressdemocrat) - As you contemplate that Thanksgiving wine you relished on Thursday, ponder for a moment a world too hot to grow fine grapes. Sanliang Gu does every day. For a dozen years his obsession has been to manipulate the growing cycle of grapes around Fresno, California's hottest and ...

November, 28, 2011 Treasury unveils UK fine-wine uni

(Drinksint) - Treasury Wine Estates has today launched a fine-wine business unit for the UK and Ireland, aimed at boosting sales of its regional and premium wines. The fine-wine team, which is comprised of business controller Ranulf Sessions and business managers Mark Davenport and Craig Mitchell...