by Giles Fallowfield
Yves Bnard, president of the Union des Maisons de Champagne (UMC), has warned growers and cooperatives in Champagne that their action in holding onto 50% more grapes than they need to replace their annual sales is threatening the stability of the market.
Tim Johns has been appointed Wines of Argentina UK's campaign coordinator. Johns will be based at the generic body's office in the Argentine consulate in Mayfair.
Read more...Dan Jago of Tesco is to join Ian Harris in presenting the WSET's Awards of Excellence, continuing the tradition of using the wine world's more high-profile speakers for the evening.
Read more...The 2007 vintage in Australia is likely to produce 20% lower yields than average - a reduction of half a million tonnes of grapes on 2006.
Argento has appointed The Drinks Sampling Company (DSC) to take on the sampling campaign of its Malbec and Chardonnay wines over the next six months.
Read more...The inaugural Argentina Wine Awards (AWA) are to take place in two months' time in Mendoza. The event will comprise a blind tasting, which will last for three days, followed by a seminar and then an awards ceremony.
For the second year in a row, the area devoted to spirits at the London International Wine & Spirits Fair is to double in size.
Read more...Announcement of the winners at the wine writers' awards sponsored by Louis Roederer have been moved to early September. The move has been instigated in order to have publication of the results in wine magazines before the Christmas shopping period.
Read more...Screwcap closures are now considered part of mainstream wine packaging, according to new research from Wine Intelligence.
A number of Fitou producers in southern France have expressed a desire to leave the CIVL (Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Languedoc). The news broke at the CIVL's general meeting.
Sainsbury's has launched a new wine that claims to have 32% more antioxidants than the average red wine.
David Campbell, publisher of France's Le Guide Hachette des Vins, and Esme Johnstone, a founder of Majestic Wine, have launched a website that will replicate book website Amazon's bargains on a range of products.
Read more...by Jo Burzynska
Marlborough winery Wither Hills has been cleared of any malpractice in the wake of one of its wines being disqualified from a key wine competition in New Zealand.
Sainsbury's and Somerfield own-label Champagnes have taken top spot in a Which? magazine sparkling wine tasting.
By Max Allen
For the first time in its 170-year viticultural history, phylloxera has arrived slap bang in the centre of the Yarra Valley, one of Australia's leading cool-climate wine regions. And it's the last thing the Yarra's grape growers and winemakers needed to hear.
President Voronin of Moldova and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have announced that Moldovan wine will be allowed to return to the Russian market, subject to new controls over quality.
Announcement of the winners at the wine writers' awards sponsored by Louis Roederer have been moved to early September. The move has been instigated in order to have publication of the results in wine magazines before the Christmas shopping period.
Read more...London-based Geronimo pub group is to double in size in the next three years after receiving funds of nearly 25 million.
Marlborough wine producer Wither Hills has defended its reputation after a competition judge claimed that one of the wines submitted by the winery was not representative of its usual style.
