June, 17, 2013 UK: English wine helps Majestic profits sparkle

(HeraldScotland) - Wine merchant Majestic posted a small rise in profits today after a year in which it said sales of English sparkling wine showed a significant increase. The retailer, which has plans to grow its 193-strong store estate to around 330 locations in the UK, posted pre-tax...

June, 17, 2013 Tech-minded wine startups get snobby: They want Millennials

(BizJournals) - Baby Boomers can't dominate the wine market forever, so startups like Uproot Wines are now chasing the Millennial market with a tech-centric and irreverent approach. The Sideways -esque generation of 40- and 50-something wine snobs may rule the wine market now, but a growing ...

June, 16, 2013 French Cuisine: Foodies Fight to Protect the Term 'Restaurant'

(ABCNews) - An increasing number of establishments in France are serving pre-made food to their customers. Old-school foodies want to put a stop to the practice with an initiative to apply the term "restaurant" only to places that serve fresh food made on site. Be it Boeuf Bourguignon, rack...

June, 16, 2013 US: Wineries court gay customers

(PressDemocrat) - Los Angeles couple Brian Chield and Bryan Hollingshead sat around a patio table Saturday sipping Rosso di Sonoma, a red blend from their host Petroni Vineyards, perched high over Sonoma Valley. For a warm weekend in Wine Country, the scene was hardly groundbreaking. But th...

June, 16, 2013 US: Wineries increase in Ohio, Michigan

(ToledoBlade) - Dustin Heineman gently cradled a tiny bunch of young grapes, examining a cluster that months from now will be harvested for one of his family’s 25 varieties of wine. That’s assuming, of course, that the fruit thrives. “Grapes are very temperamental,” sa...

June, 16, 2013 Bernard Arnault still wealthiest wine owner in France

(Decanter) -  Bernard Arnault of LVMH – owner of Hennessy, Moët et Chandon and Chateau Yquem – continues to head up the list of wealthiest wine owners in France, according to the second annual roundup published in Challenges magazine this week. His fortune is listed at &eu...

June, 16, 2013 France condemns attack on Chinese wine students

(Reuters) - France's interior minister has condemned as racist an assault on six Chinese students by drunken locals in the Bordeaux wine-producing region that left one seriously injured. The attack comes amid reports that wealthy Chinese tourists are being increasingly targeted by mugger...

June, 15, 2013 Closer Look: China's Trade Gambit with EU Wine

(Caixin) - The European Commission (EC) said on June 4 that it would impose a provisional 11.8 percent anti-dumping tariff on Chinese solar panels from June 6 to August 6. One day later, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced it would launch an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation o...