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All that glitters isn’t gold, some of it is wine By Leslie Gevirtz (Reuters) – Like gold, top wines are highly prized, represent wealth and are selling near their historical highs. Prices of the five premier cru Bordeaux — Chateaux Lafite Rothschild, Haut-Brion, Margaux, Latour and Mouton-Rothschild, and the grand crus of Burgundy, particularly Romanee-Conti, [...]
Building a Better Wine List By LETTIE TEAGUE Restaurants’ selections are grouped by grape, texture—even emotion. What Olive Garden gets right It may or may not be comforting to know that 93% of the world’s population is completely predictable. This is according to a study published in Science magazine last February (predictably enough put together by [...]
Moscato makes a splash for summer By MICHELLE LOCKE Call it moscato momentum. An old grape is winning new fans as more people turn to the sweet, floral wine that’s easy on the purse and the palate. “It’s kind of hitting that tipping point,” says James Nunes, managing director of marketing at Sutter Home Family [...]
French Authorities Approve Four New Appellations by Diana Macle The French Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC) system may not be perfect, but for winemakers it can provide crucial recognition of theirterroir‘s greatness—and serve as a valuable marketing tool. Earlier this month, the INAO (Institut National des Appellations d’Origine), the body that governs the appellations, approved the [...]
New life for old wine bottles BY KELLY SINOSKI, VANCOUVER SUN The fate of Sue Hall’s wine bottle is determined by what she does with it after sipping its last drop of Merlot. If she were to toss the bottle in the recycling bin with cans, plastics, tins and pickle jars, it could become contaminated [...]
Study suggests label is more important than vintage for wine drinkers by William Hobson New research from the US indicates that when it comes to wine, presentation is everything, as a study reveals that the label on a bottle says more to consumers than its flavour. Marketing news website The Drum reports that a study [...]
Beyond malbec: Buying into Argentina’s other hot wines by Beppi Crosariol Malbec is sort of the Diego Maradona of wine. Two decades after the soccer god’s glory days, he pretty much remains the universal answer to the challenge: “Name an athlete from Argentina.” If you can name one grape grown in Argentina, I’ll bet your [...]
Wicker and wine Harvest begins in February in the Barossa, when the hills are golden and the grapes are fat on their vines. Before dawn, while it is cool and crisp, machines trundle between the leafy rows, plucking the fruit. They are still at it an hour before sunrise but everything else is silent – [...]
Six-month shelf life for wine in plastic bottles by Nick Collins Wine sold in plastic bottles or boxes remains fresh for only six months, new research suggests. Supermarkets have claimed that wine in plastic bottles remains unchanged for up to a year. But a year-long study suggests that wine stored in bottles made of polyethylene [...]
Fine wine hits record as luxury auctions boom by AFP GENEVA — A case of French wine fetched a record price this week as springtime auctions of fine jewellery, luxury watches and wines in Geneva marked a return to top price selling, auctioneers said Thursday. An unnamed Asian private buyer snapped up the six bottles [...]
