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Mango wine seeks new markets

A central Australian mango wine maker is trying to crack the Singaporean and Mexican markets, after exporting to China for more than two years. Johnny Crayford, who owns Red Centre Farm, about 200 kilometres north of Alice Springs, has b [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Wine growers excited by export future

New Zealand wine growers are excited about a potential multi-million dollar Russian export market opening up. A Free Trade Agreement is being negotiated with Russia and John Key believes the Russians want to get a deal signed off by 2012 [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Tracing Ontario’s wine history

Here’s a Trivial Pursuit-style question to stump the experts when talk turns to grapes at your next dinner party: How old is the Canadian wine industry? Twenty-five? Forty? Try 200 – minus a couple of months. Earlier thi [...]

Posted On : Nov, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Review: Client 9 Is No Fine Wine

You could make the case, if you were feeling blissfully detached, that the world is made up of competing structures, and that the entirety of human conflict is comprised of miscommunication or differing goals. It's the Democratic str [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Chinese billionaires splash out on fine wine

He Wei Qi, a businessman from eastern China's Zhejiang province, says he routinely pays more than 30,000 yuan ($US4,500) for a bottle of wine to entertain guests. “A price tag of more than a million yuan a bottle - that do [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Lafite in Hong Kong: The price of provenance

After yesterday's drama of sky high prices at the Sotheby's Hong Kong auction, today's developments began to add some context to the numbers. Firstly, a reminder of how things looked overnight. This table shows the difference [...]

Posted On : Nov, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Kiwi wine first in the world to spell out its carbon trail o...

A New Zealand wine company has become the first in the world to declare its carbon footprint for each glass. Bottles of Mobius Marlborough sauvignon blanc - which go on sale today - will show the carbon emissions for a 125ml glass on the [...]

Posted On : Nov, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Napolean III-era claret that 'probably tastes like vinegar' ...

A bottle of wine from Napoleon III's reign in France almost 150 years ago has sold at auction for a record £147,020. The 1869 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild was sold by Sotherbys in Hong Kong to Chinese investors, along with a serie [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

New Zealand wine first in world to come with carbon footprin...

Scrutinising bouquet, viscosity and finish on the palate is no longer enough for the accomplished wine connoisseur. Now they can consider a vintage's environmental credentials – for one brand at least. A New Zealand wine has be [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Hands off Lafite, signals China

With Chateau Lafite Rothschild 2008 recording an overnight 20% price jump last week to £10,160 ($ 16,000) a case by adding the Chinese symbol ‘eight’ on the bottle and the record price of HK$ 1.815 million (over $232,00 [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Growers' tractor protest tries to squeeze homes out of wine ...

There was a tractor protest against a housing development at McLaren Vale yesterday and full-page advertisements against a proposed highway bypass in the Coonawarra appeared in weekend newspapers. Winemakers are up in arms over the [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Lafite prices spiral at record Sotheby's Hong Kong auction

Asian bidders paid stratospheric prices for prized bottles sent directly from Château Lafite Rothschild's cellars in a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong today. Three bottles of 1869 Lafite Rothschild became the world&rsq [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

All eyes on South Island wines

A $200,000 taxpayer-funded promotion of Canterbury's wine industry will begin this weekend. Up to 100 international guests and eight overseas reporters are expected for the Wine Discovery New Zealand 2010 conference that will double [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

The natural wine phenomenon

By Terry Durack From nought to one hundred in ten seconds. That’s not macho Top Gear talk, that’s a vague approximation of the way the natural wine movement has caught the public imagination. It was, apparently, a happening [...]