September, 11, 2014 Bordeaux, Accelerated: Identifying A Cuvée Of Entrepreneurs

(Forbes) - Winemaking in Bordeaux has had a long and storied success. So, too, has the business of wine as it’s been practiced and cultivated in that region for hundreds of years. The history of exporting wine from this port city dates back to the fourteenth century. The Place de Bordeaux,...

September, 11, 2014 World's Best Sparkling Wines Announced

(Wine-Searcher) - A new competition to find the best Champagnes and sparkling wines has revealed a few surprises. Wines from around the world have been showered with honors at the inaugural Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships (CSWWC), and – surprise, surprise – the big...

September, 11, 2014 How To Respond to Attacks And Criticism in the Wine Industry

(SWIGPR) - Over the past 25 years of working in wine PR and media relations it has been extremely rare that I have had to advise a client, “don’t respond” or “craft a careful response” to an attack or criticism leveled at them. The fact is, the vast majority of folks w...

September, 11, 2014 France to be world’s top wine producer despite fall in exports

(France24) - There was good and bad news for France’s wine industry this week as it emerged the country is set to overtake Italy to become the world’s largest wine producer, although a fall in demand from China has seen exports plummet. Italy was hit by unusually wet and cold weather...

September, 11, 2014 REFILE-Dubai's latest luxury: wine that includes 24-carat gold but no alcohol

(Reuters) - Dubai built the world's tallest building, put a ski slope inside a shopping mall and gave its cops a Lamborghini for a police car. Where else would you sell a $150 bottle of 'halal' non-alcoholic sparkling white wine with flecks of 24-carat edible gold leaf gleaming at the bottom? It...

September, 11, 2014 SYRIAN VINEYARD STILL OPERATING DESPITE WAR

(TDB) - In the middle of Syria’s ongoing civil war a solitary vineyard is still producing wines to be served at the tables of Michelin-starred restaurants in London and Paris. Anyone who’s worked a vintage in a winery will tell you it’s hard work. Throw in a war with th...

September, 11, 2014 Wine + Business: Emerging Markets, Less Romance, And A Healthier Bottom Line

(Forbes) - Recently there has been an uptick, at different hotspots in  Europe , in favor of fresh approaches toward wine, hospitality, and entrepreneurialism. Today’s post is the first in a series that looks at two such initiatives in France. Not surprisingly, both are embedded in...

September, 10, 2014 Italy winemakers braced for tough 2014 harvest

(Decanter) - Summer rain has left winemakers across northern Italy facing difficult conditions for the 2014 harvest, but while many still remain optimistic there are higher hopes further south in the country Italy   is heading for its smallest wine grape harvest since 1950, with total produ...