California's godfather of Zin, Ravenswood founder Joel Peterson, predicts a strong future for the region's wine as the next generation of winemakers usher in "a whole new world".
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You could be forgiven for thinking you'd wound up back in GCSE chemistry class, and that Joel Peterson was your genial teacher. Instead, equipped with pipettes and a variety of samples (OK, four glasses of wine) and a blending glass. As experiments go, I was up for this one.
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Portugal needs to shout about its wines more and grow a solid identity through links to its produce, according to UK wine buyers.
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The winners of the first Wines of Germany on and off-trade promotional competition - 31 Days of German Riesling - have been announced.
Read more...The German Wine Institute is "significantly" increasing its UK investment to boost its burgeoning growth of the above £5 price bracket.
Read more...Languedoc producer Domaines Paul Mas has appointed Elin Mann to run its first ever dedicated sales and marketing office based in London.
Read more...Renowned for its red wines, the Languedoc is seeing an increase in demand from UK buyers for its "fashionable" whites.
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Rioja remains the top Spanish wine, but other Tempranillo-based wines are helping to drive the category, according to buyers.
Read more...Stone, Vine & Sun buyer Gordon Coates was among the lucky few who headed to the Languedoc last week for the CIVL study tour, organised in conjunction with Harpers and designed to open buyers' eyes to the diversity on offer.
Read more...Treasury Wine Estates has purchased the remaining 50% of Rapaura Vintners from Babich Wines in a bid to strengthen its foothold in Marlborough.
Read more...Wines of Chile has held the second Sommelier Chile Challenge in a bid to illustrate the country's value-for-money on-trade offering.
Read more...Stevens Garnier has taken on an exclusive range of Loiseau-Bichot wines from Burgundy with the aim of bringing "additional prestige" to its portfolio.
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The Italian Ministry of Agriculture has agreed to relax laws on wines allowed to be bottled under screwcap, but renowned expert David Gleave MW of Liberty says it hasn't gone far enough.
Read more...ProWein is ramping up its programme of seminars on offer for its 2013 event to be hosted at a central lecture forum.
González Byass has finished its financial year up with "really good growth on wine and Tio Pepe", says marketing director Jeremy Rockett.
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Bedecked in stripes, from suit to socks, Sandro Boscaini, president of Masi Agricola, was in town earlier this month to celebrate the launch of a hardback book about arguably the best-known wine from Valpolicella, from where he was born. 'Amarone - The Making of an Italian Wine Phenomenon' is written by British expat, Kate Singleton (who also collaborated on Wines of Sicily and The Golden Book of Chocolate). Six corks, one embossed, grace its cover.
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Buckingham Schenk has launched a range of pre-filled PET wine goblets under the Italian brand Cavatina exclusively to Sainsbury's.
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Burgundy is facing up to its smallest harvest since the mid-1950s after the vineyards of the Côte d'Or suffered a mixture of frost, hail, mildew and poor flowering.
Argentinian wine dynasty Catena has launched wines from its new winery Bodega Cuarto Dominio in the UK through Enotria.
"My favourite wine is Rioja". It's a line I hear a lot. Despite the UK's frequent absence on Rioja's top five list of most important export markets, the British have had a long standing love affair with wines from this notoriously wealthy Spanish region.
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