Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) — Global wine sales by Christie’s International rose 22 percent to a record $71.65 million this year, as demand remained strong for top Bordeaux, Burgundy and Rhone vintages.
Christie’s European sales fetched a total $44.43 million and its U.S. auctions raised $27.22 million, the auction house said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. Sotheby’s [...]

Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) — U.S. wine auctions kept up 2007’s sizzling pace through the end of the season, with liquor added to the mix in New York for the first time since Prohibition.
Sales for the year at seven major auction houses, including liquor, totaled $208 million, up 25 percent from last year and almost double [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Wine.com, the #1 online wine store, announced today it has opened a retail store at its Berkeley, CA warehouse location. The store, located at 2220 4th Street, two blocks south of University Avenue and just off highway 80, offers immediate access to hundreds of Wine.com’s best wines from [...]

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 [...]

Safeway plans to delve into Internet sales of wine directly to consumers. The Pleasanton-based grocery chain applied for a conditional use permit from American Canyon to open a tiny office alongside New Vine Logistics’ 130,000-square-foot pick-and-pack facility at 125 Mezzetta Court.
The commission unanimously approved the permit on Sept. 27, conditioned on Safeway’s obtaining a state [...]

The issue of direct shipments by retailers to consumers has become a very hot topic of late. As of today, retailers can ship to less than half of the number of states to which producing wineries can ship. The Specialty Wine Retailers Association is fighting hard with both legislative efforts and litigation to open more [...]

Slower Growth Expected for Holiday Wine Gift Sales
 
New research report identifies spending plans and preferences of likely wine gift buyers
 
Windsor, CA – October 4, 2007 – Wine marketing researchers at VinterActive LLC today released the results of their annual research report on consumer preferences and purchasing plans for wine gifts in the upcoming holiday season. [...]

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 [...]

Wine exports from Australia have set a record for the year to the end of September, according to recent figures.
The Australian Wine and Brandy Corp. confirmed today (8 October) that exports of wine in the 12 months to the end of September increased by 9% in value terms on the corresponding period a year earlier, [...]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - American wine lovers are worried. With the dollar scraping the bottom of the foreign exchange barrel, they fear their favorite French Bordeaux or Italian Barolo could become unaffordable.
But wine experts here say there is no reason to panic.
“Logically, with the weak dollar, you would think there would be an avalanche of wines [...]

For Dave Robinson, wine is not only a passion, but a way of life.
A wine aficionado for some time, he has come to Lompoc to partake in the wine industry through a shipping and packaging business called Vintegrated Solutions.
In a business that he owned in Los Angeles, which specialized in warehouse logistics, Robinson shipped everything [...]

The Argentinean wine industry is set to break export records this year, according to recent figures.
The Corporacion Vitivinicola Argentina said yesterday (12 September) that, based on the results of the first seven months of the year, exports of bottled wine from the country were up by over 37% compared to the same time last year.
The [...]

THE owner of a family-run chain of wine stores is furious that his application to open a bottle shop was rejected on the grounds of community harm just weeks before Victoria’s Director of Liquor Licensing, Sue Maclellan, approved a Dan Murphy’s superstore in the same suburb.
Sam Bongiovanni, who owns Cheapa Wines and has run liquor [...]

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 [...]