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CHAMPAGNE MAKES A COMEBACK

Break out the bubbly, there’s a reason to celebrate! Just call Champagne “the comeback kid”. After a grim couple of years, worldwide Champagne sales volumes rose 19.4% in the first quarter of the year on the same period in 2OO9, reflecting the end of destocking on the part of importers...
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THE MULTI-PURPOSE WINE BOTTLE

How many wine bottles a year do you throw away? Do you even want to know? Although wine bottles can be recycled, all too often they get tossed into the trash, especially at bars and restaurants. But what if your wine bottle could offer you something in return? (Besides five...
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NORTH AMERICAN WINERIES HIT THE 7K MARK

From Mexico to Canada, wineries just keep popping up. The total number of wineries in North America has grown by 361 in less than one year, and swelled by 1961 since January 2OO5, according to recent data released by Wines & Vines IndustryBase. There are a total of 7O11 bonded...
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A SCALED DOWN AUSSIE HARVEST

It’s been a rough couple of years for the Australian wine industry. Ravaging fires, the terrible economy, a drought . . . the list goes on. Now, the Australian wine industry is heading for one of its smallest (albeit exceptional) harvests in a decade, as drought and poor grape prices...
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CANADIANS TURN THEIR BACKS ON BEER

Can it be so? Has Canada turned away from its beloved beer in favor of red wine? It would seem so. Canadians’ palates are turning from hops to grapes. Statistics Canada recently reported that the growing taste for red wine is cutting into beer’s traditional market dominance across the country....
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A LIGHT AND AIRY CHAMPAGNE . . . BOTTLE!

Champagne is typically thought of as light and bubbly. The bottles, however, tend to be quite bulky and heavy. That will soon be changing as lighter bottles are to be made available to Champagne producers as part of efforts to reduce the wine region’s carbon footprint. According to the Champagne...
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FIGHTING COUNTERFEITERS WITH C-14

Wine fraud is big business – just ask billionaire Bill Koch who famously bought bottles of wines he thought belonged to Thomas Jefferson only to discover they were fakes. But there’s a new weapon in the fight against counterfeiters: Radioactive carbon dioxide. In a study presented recently to the American...
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CHILE’S WINE FUTURE: BETTER THAN EXPECTED

Despite the effects of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that hit Chile in February, its wine industry’s prospects don’t appear too dire. Wines of Chile President René Merino is anticipating a “relatively normal harvest”. He projects that 2O1O wine production will be around 22O million gallons, which is 15% below 2OO9...
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2OO9 BORDEAUX VINTAGE – PRACTICALLY PERFECT?

Bordeaux has cause to celebrate. Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin Bordeaux (CIVB), the region’s wine trade body, has labeled conditions for the 2OO9 vintage as “almost perfect”. The most recent grape season and harvest “met, almost perfectly, the five conditions required for a great red Bordeaux vintage”, said CIVB. Its high...
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RIESLING GETS AN UPDATE

Riesling’s biggest problem has long been the public perception that it is a cloyingly sweet white wine. Of course, Riesling wines are quite diverse and complex – but how do you convince consumers of this when the stigma has been around for decades? Enter the International Riesling Foundation (IRF), a...
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