November, 09, 2010 NZ: Oversupply Worries Kiwi Wine Producers

The battle of values vs. volumes that dogs the New Zealand wine industry causing a glut of wines and an intense pressure carries on, with the owner of a Central Otago Winery insisting that the relentless pursuit of growth will plunge the wine industry into another crash while the volume producers in...

November, 09, 2010 GLOBAL: Regulation poses biggest threat to wine

The biggest threat that the global wine industry faces is the governmental war on excessive drinking, according to Grand Jury Européen founder François Mauss. Speaking late last week at the World Wine Symposium in Lake Como, Mauss told just-drinks that taxation and government regulation of alco...

November, 08, 2010 Acker Merrall takes US$12m in Hong Kong

Acker Merrall & Condit's latest Hong Kong auction has yielded HK$95.5m (US$12.3m) - the house's second-highest grossing sale in the region. The sale of wine from a European and an Asian collector was held on 5 and 6 November in the Grand Hyatt and Island Shangri-la hotels in Hong Kong. Among the 130...

November, 08, 2010 California Produces Grüner Veltliner Wines

According to the Grape Crush Report from the USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service, California processors didn’t crush any Grüner Veltliner in 2008. By 2009, 5.2 tons were processed in Napa County; 149.9 tons in Monterey County and 14.4 tons in San Louis Obispo, bringing the statewide ...

November, 08, 2010 Macedonia Accuses Greece of Blocking Wine Trade

Macedonia's Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Perica Ivanovski, told Balkan Insight that a Greek blockade of wine sales in the EU "could results in millions of euros in damages for our wine producers".Ivanovski said Greek diplomats in Slovenia and Germany, two key EU markets, recently launched a camp...

November, 08, 2010 Emma Watson was drinking wine at seven

Emma Watson was allowed to drink alcohol when she was just seven.The 'Harry Potter' actress has revealed her parents Chris and Jacqueline - who are both lawyers who divorced when she was just five - always treated her like an adult and she was allowed to drink wine with meals as a child. Emma, now 2...

November, 08, 2010 Hong Kong wine insiders call Sotheby's Lafite prices "insane"

Hong Kong and China wine market experts are calling the prices fetched at the recent Sotheby’s Chateau Lafite auction in Hong Kong crazy and not a bellwether of the market. Merchants, auctioneers and other insiders – many of them assembled for the Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair – ...

November, 07, 2010 Red wine,chocolate and coffee not on healthy heart list

Stop kidding yourself, The Australian Heart Foundation says, there is no cardiovascular health benefit from eating chocolate or drinking red wine. Coffee was another popular treat that also contained antioxidants, the foundation said, ensuring it was commonly referred to as part of a heart healthy d...