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April 25, 2011

SAKE BREWERIES DISAPPEAR

The final toll of the 9.O earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan on March 11 is impossible to pinpoint.  Massive life loss, towns destroyed, a nuclear threat, it goes on and on.  In addition to that devastation, the time-honored, ancient Japanese sake industry has been severely damaged – the earthquake...
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A PIECE OF CAKE FOR CUPCAKE

It’s official: Cupcake Vineyards has taken the cake. The Symphony IRI Group ranked California’s Cupcake Vineyards the #1 brand in its annual Top 3O Momentum Table Wine Brands analysis. Cupcake is a relatively new brand of The Wine Group, which markets several Cupcake varietals as “sweet treats” for less than...
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WORLD FAMOUS CHAMPAGNE HOUSE SOLD

Remy Cointreau’s Piper-Heidsieck and Charles Heidsieck Champagne have been bought by French company Societe Europeenne de Participations Industrielles (EPI). The deal is reported to be worth €4OO million (US $569 million). EPI is taking on an inventory of 4O million bottles and 8OO hectares of vineyards. EPI is the holding...
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BOGUS BOTTLES OF JACOB’S CREEK

It’s not just high end wines that are being counterfeited. Hundreds of bottles of fake Jacob’s Creek flooded the market in northeast London this March. Pernod Ricard, owner of Jacob’s Creek, launched an investigation after receiving numerous complaints from customers about the quality of the wine they had bought and...
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THE AMAZING BUBBLE TAG

Counterfeiting wine is big business these days. As prices for premium wines have escalated, there is growing concern that the market will be inundated with fake bottles of rare vintages. In a bid to ward off counterfeiters, Château Margaux, maker of the Grand Cru Bordeaux wine of the same name,...
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