The French wine sector has sent an open letter to the government, demanding it do more to protect the industry against the threat of the anti-alcohol lobby.
The letter describes how, ‘contrary to promises by the president, the government is ignoring the legal injustice to the wine sector’. A copy has been sent from each of [...]

NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - They’re a nation of beer and whisky drinkers, but wine is fast becoming the tipple of choice for India’s growing ranks of young, affluent professionals who are quaffing down vintages and boosting the local industry.
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The Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation says merging many functions with the Winemakers Federation could help South Australia’s wine industry.
Acting chief executive of the Corporation, Jock Osborne, says the industry will decide on the merger proposal by the end of the year.
Mr Osborne says it could improve the marketing of SA wine regions.
“Certainly I think [...]

 
 
 
MOSCOW, June 20 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s trade and sanitary control service has allowed two more Moldovan wine producing plants to present products for examination in Russia, a Russian service source told Itar-Tass.
Thus, 33 Moldovan plants are allowed to present products for sanitary and epidemiological examination in Russia, the source said.
At present, there are 692 positive [...]

Bumper season boosts wine production
New Zealand’s wine industry is looking forward to increased sales, after a bumper season produced a surge in grape production this year.    New Zealand Winegrowers chief Philip Gregan said nature had delivered a bounty in 2008, with 285,000 tonnes of grapes harvested, up 39% on last year.    Gregan said [...]

WINE and beer company Lion Nathan Ltd has bought US wine importer Cumulus Wine Inc (CWI) for an undisclosed sum, setting up a channel to sell premium Australian and New Zealand wines into the United States.
Lion Nathan will establish a new wine import company called Lion Nathan USA Inc following the purchase of Cumulus Wine [...]

 Chinese wine will conquer the world in terms of volume and fine wine, a recent study suggests.
According to the Future of Wine report, drawn up by London-based wine merchants Berry Bros & Rudd (BBR), China, which is already the world’s sixth largest producer, will lead the world by the year 2058.
The report, which predicts the [...]

PARIS, March 27 (Reuters) - Burgundy producers have hiked their prices for the U.S. market by 10 to 20 percent over the past weeks due to the continued decline of the dollar, the president of the Burgundy wine association said on Thursday.
“We have been absorbing the dollar decline for the past few years. The producers [...]

A drop in bulk wine shipments has contributed to a five per cent fall in Australian wine exports in the year to the end of February.
Some 749 million litres of wine was exported in the 12-month period, valued at $2.9 billion.
Bulk wine exports dropped 25 per cent in the year to the end of February [...]

French wine exporters toast record 2007
France’s wine and spirit industry scored record exports in 2007, with triple-digit surges in China and an exuberant performance from the star of French wines, Champagne.
France sent nearly 9.4 billion euros, or about $13.8 billion, worth of wines and spirits abroad in 2007, an increase of nearly 7 percent year-on-year, [...]

The drought is expected to lead to a surge in wine imports of up to 25 per cent by 2009.
Just two years after major oversupply problems, bulk wine producers say they are now trying to compensate for a shortfall in local supplies.
The Australian Wine Sector Supply and Demand Assessment expects imports to increase from 34 [...]

Australia’s 2008 wine grape harvest is expected to fall well below average and could cause an exodus of growers, an industry expert says.
Past vintages have averaged about 1.9 million tonnes, but because of the drought the 2008 vintage was unlikely to reach 1.3 million tonnes, Wine Grape Growers Australia executive director Mark McKenzie says.
He said [...]

A wine-maker has been ordered by the food watchdog to change the way it markets a reduced-alcohol drink in a row over the way it is manufactured. The wine standards branch of the Food Standards Agency says Sovio, which contains 8% alcohol, should be removed from wine lists in the UK.
It says an experimental [...]

Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) — German wine growers on the banks of the river Moselle increased exports of their famous Riesling by 21 percent in the year through July on rising demand from the U.S. and Scandinavia.
Exports rose to 109 million euros ($156 million) from 90 million euros a year earlier, the Moselle Wine Growers Association [...]