The Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation says growth in bulk wine exports has slowed over the past 12 months, while bottled shipments are increasing.
The Corporation’s wine export approval report for September shows the volume of bulk shipments increased by 26 million litres in the past year.
The growth is significantly less than in the same period [...]

CHISINAU, October 9 (Itar-Tass) - Moldova resumes its wine exports to Russia.
“On Monday we began to issue trademarks to economic entities that export their wines to Russia,” the director of the agriculture agency Moldova-Vin, Valery Mironescu, told reporters.
He said the wine exports were resumed after an accord reached by the Russian and Moldovan presidents [...]

Constellation Europe is to buy South African wine producer Flagstone.
The American-owned drinks giant has signed a letter of intent to acquire the business, and completion should take place by the end of November.
The move is part of Constellation’s plan to expand its South African offering beyond its existing, entry-level brand Kumala and into the premium [...]

AUSTRALIAN wine and beer firm Foster’s yesterday toasted the successful relaunch of its Rosemount wine brand as the group unveiled increased profits.
The Melbourne-based company said the return to growth of the previously-struggling brand boosted international wine sales and helped underlying group profits reach 17% higher to $A716.1m (£294.1m) in the year to June 30.
In the [...]

FIRST they conquered our tastebuds with their spicy curries, now India is attempting to do the same with wine.
While more than a third of all Indians live on less than £1 a day, a new craze for wine is sweeping through the style bars and restaurants of Mumbai and Bangalore.
Australian wine company Howling Wolves has [...]

CHISINAU, Moldova — Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin has ordered a halt to Russian inspections of Moldovan wineries, saying his state would no longer be treated as a “colony.”
Russia last year banned key wine imports from Moldova and Georgia on grounds that much of the production was dangerous to consumers, while officials say the ban was [...]

GROTTAFERRATA, Italy - Patrizia Filippi has no degree in meteorology or any idea how to calculate what scientists call extreme weather change. But the 43-year-old grape picker has been working this area’s silky, volcanic soil for nearly three decades, and she knows what she sees:
This is an early harvest unlike anything that Italy, or any [...]

Australian wine exports have topped $3 billion in a year for the first time.
The Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation says the record result for the year ended July represented an eight per cent growth of wine exports.
Volume of Australian wine exported in the 12-month period exceeded 800 million litres for the first time, 10 per [...]

(Drinks Media Wire). The Chilean Wine Industry finally launched the new wine association called “Vinos de Chile A.G.” that hold 95 wineries and also 95% of the total exported wine, confirming the high focus and determination to face the worldwide market in better therms of negotiation to improve the market share. Chile exports over 60% [...]

The Chinese could be drinking as many as 50m cases a year by 2017 – and the market is not nearly as daunting as we think.
Speaking at a Decanter seminar entitled ‘How to be successful in China - presenting the facts, exploding the myths, and profiling the new consumer’ at the London International Wine and [...]

Australian wine makers have set new export volume and value records in the 12 months to the end of April.
The volume of wine exported jumped 12 percent to 797 million litres, according to figures from the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation, while the value of exports grew 6 percent to $2.94 billion.
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Foster’s Group Ltd has sold five more of its wine club and services businesses to focus on its global beverage operations.
The beer and wine company, which flagged the divestment last August, said it will sell the units in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, to private equity firm Archer Capital Pty Ltd.
“It’s a good result for [...]

ndia blocked a World Trade Organization investigation of its import duties on European wine and spirits Tuesday, temporarily delaying a dispute that could also soon involve the United States.An investigative panel will almost certainly be established to examine Delhi’s compliance with international trade rules at a meeting later this month of the WTO’s dispute settlement [...]

Minsk. Importers are getting ready to replace the wine import from Moldova with Bulgarian and Hungarian wines, Belarusian edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.
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