December, 06, 2012 18th-Century French chateau demolished 'by mistake'

(NYDailyNews) - Imagine leaving your historic French chateau on a business trip – only to return and find it was demolished by mistake. That’s what Russian businessman Dmitry Stroskin claims happened to his 18th-century mansion in Yvrac, a town northeast of Bordeaux, but local residents of th...

December, 06, 2012 Top 50 most powerful women in wine: 50 – 41

(TheDrinksBusiness) - Which game-changing women hold the most power in the wine world today? The fact that there are enough powerful women working in wine to warrant a top 50 is a sign of how far the industry has come in a short space of time. Since Sarah Morphew Stephen became the first female Mas...

December, 06, 2012 Winemaking Students Learn Overseas

(Wines&Vines) - When Matt Cates returns from Spain today he’ll be wiser and maybe a bit jet-lagged. The Umpqua Community College student traveled overseas in September to learn the craft of making fine Tempranillo at Dominio de Cair, a new winery near the town of Aranda de Duero in Spain’s DO Ri...

December, 06, 2012 Louis Roederer sells Bordeaux property to HK group

(TheDrinksBusiness) - Louis Roederer has sold one of its Bordeaux properties, Château Bernadotte, to the Hong Kong-based King Power Group. The sale of the 40-hectare Crus Bourgeois estate was announced today (6 December). The estate was purchased by Louis Roederer along with Pichon Longueville ...

December, 06, 2012 How Silicon Valley Has Transformed The Wine Industry

(Melodika) - Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay area have long had a reputation for being both the center of high tech innovation and a hub of viticultural refinement. Now, these two seemingly disparate worlds are beginning to intertwine. The innovative spirit of Silicon Valley is turn...

December, 06, 2012 Treasury Wine raises a glass to global travel

(TheAustralian) - TREASURY Wine Estates is making a pitch at the duty-free traveller market, hiring three senior executives to lead a push into a sector long dominated by spirits. TWE managing director for global travel retail, Andrew Carter, said the company wanted to boost the presence of its w...

December, 06, 2012 Country Life: Wine barrel laments

(NVR) - Pity the poor wine barrel. A beautiful oak barrel is the keeper of the valley’s nectar one day; and, once used, too quickly sent to unknown exile. Used wine barrels are like nuclear waste — no one is really sure what to with them. New wine barrels cost a ton of money. As any winema...

December, 06, 2012 Don’t Tax Our Wine Irish Cry as Budget Finds Austerity Threshold

(BusinessWeek) - The Corkscrew Wine Merchants in Dublin did a week’s trade in one afternoon yesterday as shoppers made sure they beat a surprise increase in tax on alcohol. Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan said he would raise the levy on a bottle of wine by 1 euro ($1.30), or about 40 perc...