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A $6O MILLION SCORE

CONSTELLATION BRANDS has made a significant move to position itself as a major player in the premium wine category. The drinks company recently paid $6O million to acquire cult wine producer Schrader Cellars in June. Schrader produces just 25OO to 4OOO cases a year and sells its routinely high scoring...
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CAVA CONTINUES TO SPARKLE

PROSECCO MAY be the bell of the bubbly world at the moment but Cava sales have been quietly and steadily growing over the last year. Shipments topped 245 million bottles in 2O16, an increase of O.42%, according to the latest figures from the DO Cava – the region’s regulatory body...
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ROSY DAYS FOR ROSÉ

THIS HAS CERTAINLY been the year of pink.  Rosé has shown strong growth over the past year and is outpacing overall US wine growth, a trend which has continued during the summer months.  The rosé wine category is valued at $2O7 million and grew by 53% in volume sales over...
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THE CORKSCREW GLASS

MOVE OVER RIEDEL, there’s a new player coming soon to the world of stemware and it’s designed to eliminate the need for decanting.  Created by Vacanti Wine Glasses, Spirale is a hand-blown wine glass with a unique design embedded in the stem that captures sediment found in red wine as...
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WINE CRIME DOESN’T PAY

IN THE never-ending challenge of ferreting out counterfeit wine rings, score one for the authorities. A Russian man has been fined and jailed for his part in selling counterfeit Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and Domaine Leroy. In May, Aleksandr Iugov appeared in court in Dijon and was sentenced to four...
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DOG DAYS FOR CANINE “CHAMPAGNE”

A WORD of advice to anyone seeking to register a product with a name bearing the slightest similarity to “Champagne”: think twice. Champagne producers take that very seriously. Most recently, Moet Hennessy, citing its high-end Dom Perignon brand, moved to block a Florida man from registering “Dog Perignon”. Fort Myers-based...
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FRENCH DESTROY SPANISH WINES

THERE’S BEEN a lot of innocent wine destroyed in France of late as tensions have reached a boiling point over cheap Spanish imports.  Over the last year militant winemaker group CAV – or CRAV as it is sometimes known – has attacked lorries carrying Spanish wines and set fire to...
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MOTHER NATURE’S APRIL WRATH

MOTHER NATURE has been particularly cruel this year as spring storms and frosts have caused devastating damage to much of France’s wine regions as well as several other countries including Germany, Italy and England. Champagne vineyard managers were among the first to raise the alarm over frost but it was...
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BLUE BUBBLY COMING SOON . . .

For better or for worse, blue seems to have become a trend in wine production.  First there was Gik, the blue wine from Spain made by mixing red and white wines together along with a blue plant-based dye.  After being told it could not label its product as “wine” the...
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WINE & CHEESE GANG BUSTED

For a bunch of thieves they certainly have good taste.  In what’s being considered one of the biggest “wine and cheese busts” in recent Italian history, a group of ten people have been arrested by police for stealing more than $25O,OOO in fine wines and gourmet cheeses.  They were apprehended...
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