December, 13, 2010 Wine Management Systems Delivers the Wine Industry’s First ERP Solution

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wine Management Systems (WMS), the leading provider of end-to-end Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that track all winery activities from Vineyard operations through Production & Bottling, Inventory management, and TTB and FDA Compliance for wineries and custom crush facilitie...

December, 13, 2010 Investment in wine brings double digit returns

The Wine Investment Fund (TWIF) has announced its latest payout with investors receiving returns equivalent to 17.1 per cent a year. TWIF said its payouts remained in double digits while over the same period the FTSE 100 fell by 1.4 per cent. Investors in the fund's first tranche, the 2003 tranch...

December, 12, 2010 Billionaires Rival, Plot to Snare $5,000 Bottles of Haut-Brion

Fate bequeathed a delusional legacy to the small French suburb of Pessac. As the 1st century A.D. birthplace of Bordeaux wine, Pessac’s Gunzian gravel soil over the millennia has attracted holy men, scoundrels and a crowd of billionaires on a quest to spend beyond $5,000 for a vintage bottle of Ch...

December, 12, 2010 S.Africa: Clover also considers making takeover bid for KWV

CLOVER, the former dairy co- operative that lists on the JSE tomorrow, is interested in acquiring wine and spirits maker KWV, CEO Johann Vorster said on Friday. Clover, which shed businesses such as bulk cheese and milk powders as part of its transformation into a producer, distributor and merchandi...

December, 12, 2010 NZ: Wine industry ‘not doing it as tough’ here

THE Vintage 2010 benchmarking survey gives a bleak outlook on profitability in the wine industry, but Gisborne Wines chairman John Clarke says the industry is working to even supply and demand to improve it. Announced by Deloitte and New Zealand Winegrowers, Vintage 2010 is the fifth annual finan...

December, 12, 2010 Wild For Wine, China Pumps Up Demand, Prices

With its explosive economic growth, China is sucking in many of the world's major commodities such as metals and minerals and — perhaps most surprising — red wine. Traditionally, the Chinese are not wine drinkers. But as the middle classes earn more money, it seems they are developing a taste fo...

December, 12, 2010 Forgotten vines help wine makers fight climate change

Grapes on the vine crave sunshine, but wine growers in France and elsewhere are starting to worry that global warming is giving them too much of a good thing.And worry they should, if scientists are right.Predicted increases in average temperatures of two, three or even four degrees Celsius (3.6 to ...

December, 11, 2010 NZ: Isle of wine

Waiheke Island's boutique wine industry is growing in experience, variety and profile.Sipping a delicious syrah on the shore of Man o' War Bay makes the battles of Auckland's traffic seem much further than the hour or so they are away. I'm sampling Man o' War vineyard's beachfront cellar door, a new...