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Fine wine sale
FEBRUARY 2010 FINE WINE SALE RED BORDEAUX 1970 Ch‰teau Malartic Lagravire, Cru ClassŽ Pessac Lognan 6 £569.40 £512.46 £4... More

First Quench goes thirsty
First Quench, which owns British wine retailers Threshers and Wine Rack, has appointed KPMG as administrator. First Quench Reta... More

Once again Wine is in deep do-do.
Once again Wine is in deep do-do. By Antony le Ray-Cook Oct 09 ... More

Hindustan Times On Indian Wine
Khushwant Singh recently published this article in the Hindustan Times. It is strange to think that Indian journalists writi... More

David Lake MW dies
David Lake MW David Lake MW, a pivotal pioneer in Washington State's wine industry, died Monday. He was in his mid-60s. A... More

Majestic Wine Warehouse
Majestic Wine Warehouse. After many years just selling wines by the case now one can buy wines six at a time. Whoopee! You ... More

NZ wines clean up in Oz
From the Marlborough Express 8.vii.09 Marlborough wineries beat several Australian wineries in an Australian wine compet... More

Two Buck Oz Chuck
Two buck chuck- Down Under. Back to the days when Ozzie wine buyers had signs over the front door 'don't knock unless you c... More

'Johnny' Hugel dies
'Johnny' Hugel dies at the young age of 84. 9th June 2009. The every young Johnny Hugel, ambassador par excellent for Alsa... More

Bordeaux Hail Storms
BORDEAUX, France, May 13 09(Reuters) - Hail storms earlier this week destroyed vines in the Bordeaux area and put the commerci... More

Chardonnay du Monde® 2009
Chardonnay du Monde® 2009 The 16th annual Chardonnay du Monde® competitionwas held on 11 to 14 March 2009 at Château des Ra... More

Bordeaux 08 Report-Rather Good
Frustrations Jan/Feb 08 Bill Blatch’s Preliminary Bordeaux 2008-vintage report Dec 200... More

Bordeaux en Primeur 08
Bordeaux en Primeur 2008 March 09 So what will the en primeur tasting show this year? It seems once again that the top chate... More

Le Vin et Le Sante
  24 février 2009   Halte à la désinformation et à la manipulatio... More

Bordeaux 08 Report
Frustrations Jan/Feb 08 Bill Blatch’s Preliminary Bordeaux 2008-vintage report Dec 200... More

Christies Closing Wine Dept
Christie's is closing its South Kensington wine department on the 19th December 2008. According to David Elswood, head of ... More

Herry, Tort, Marsulpial
Re-naming wines costs industry a million dollars Tuesday, 09/12/2008 The wine industry will announce in a few months poten... More

Galicia - part one
Galicia- Galicia- Spain in spades! Part one November 08    &nb... More

Wines and Booze for Christmas 08
White Wines Wines for Christmas 2008 recommended by Antony le Ray-Cook   A... More

Wines and Booze for Christmas 08
White Wines Wines for Christmas 2008 recommended by Antony le Ray-Cook   A... More

Large Collection of 2000 Bordeux
Large Collection of the gre... More

Electronic Tongue Tastes Wine Variety and Vintage
Electronic Tongue Tastes Wine Variety and Vintage Science Daily (Aug. 12, 2008) More

German Wine Merchant Celebrates
Germany: Wine Merchant P ... More

California wine? Down the drain
California wine   California wine? Down the drain By Alice Feiring   ... More

Oddbins WIN tickets to the BIG tasting
Win tickets to London Oddbin... More

New Zealand Wine Sales up
NEW ZEALAND WINE SALES ARE B... More

New Zealand Wine Sales up
NEW ZEALAND WINE SALES ARE B... More

Bill Baker dies
Bill Baker – a persona... More

Exports of Swiss Wine Down
Exports of Swiss wine in 2007 disappoint Exports of Swiss wine in 2007 disappoint. &nb... More

Wine blast survivor 'engulfed in flames'
Wine blast survivor 'engulfed in flames' One hell of a way to open a bottle! Poor guys. A man badly burned in a bla... More

Did this wine cost $10 or $99?
CNET ... More

Paris County Court Decision
FIJEV Communiqué FIJEV considers unfair and dangerous the recent decision made by the Paris County Court in the case of... More

Les Cotes-de Provence 2008
Les Cotes-de Provence 2008- By Antony le Ray-Cook Another good year with the crop down a ... More

Phew! Now I won
Phew! Now I won More

Australia Short of Water
Australia short of water to ... More

Erich Saloman Dies
Obituary: Erich Salomon
December 7, 2007 Obituary: Erich Salomon
December ... More

Alois Kracker dies
Latest News         Latest News   Alois Krach... More

Dan Jago puts thought into Oz
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Latest Import data available from Oz:
Dear Winefacts User Latest Import data available from Oz: September 2007 received 1st No... More

Fine Wine Burns
Vintage wine goes up in flames   Vintage wine goes up in flames 17th October... More

Bordeaux News Oct 07
News from Bordeaux 5th Octob... More

World Atlas of Wine 6th Edition
Not a duplicate article but a copy of the cover of this wonderful book... More

World Atlas of Wine 6th Edition
World Atlas Of Wine 2007 ... More

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc
Martha Stewart Living Omnime... More

Champagne at FIVE pounds a bottle
Champagne at a fiver a bottle. September 2007 By Antony le Ray-Cook Yes real Champagne at f... More

Red wine compound may halt cancer
Red wine compound may halt c... More

Top Ten Syrah du Monde
The Top 10 winners of Syrah ... More

Indian Wine Markey
Indian market fast opening up to wine From correspondents in Europe, 07:01 PM IST * Email &#... More

Bordeaux 2006 Vintage Report
Diary of the 2005 vintage More

Chateau La Fake?
This report from The Times March 16, 2007 Ch More

Russian Wine
Russia, land of promises ... More

Mounton Rothschild Grand Auction
Mouton Rothschild collection to be auctioned in New York Mouton Rothschild collection to... More

One 387 Sized Bottle
6-foot-5, 1,300 pounds: A whopper of a wine bottle hits New York 6-foot-5, 1,300 pounds:... More

Rioja Changes in Grapes
John Radford reporting in Decanter 17th January 2007 reports changes in the grapes allowed to be used in making white Rioja.... More

Vin de France!
Vin de Pays National Vin de Pays National   For some time France has been try... More

D'Yquem in Nebuchadnezzars
Chateau d More

Cazes Family Buy Ch
Cazes buys a Ch More

Consternation as Constellation Profits drop
Constellation Brands Profit Drops; Shares Decline Constellation Brands Profit Drops; ... More

Chilly Days in New Zealand
Chilly days in New Zealand Chilly days in New Zealand may reduce grape yields The M... More

Cyprus, her UK wine suppliers
Cyprus, her UK wine suppliers Cyprus, her UK wine suppliers   January 2007- ... More

The secret ingredient
The secret ingredient that makes a good wine rise to the occasion The secret ingredient ... More

Chile and Australia unite?
Last Update: Monday, November 20, 2006 Chile, Barossa consider cultural-economic r... More

Jean-Michel Cazes
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Time For Caution
TIME FOR CAUTION   TIME FOR CAUTION   Mr Lionel Frumkin writes: ' Arr... More

Chateau Pichon Longueville, la Comtesse de Lalande
Chateau Pichon Longueville, la Comtesse de Lalande Chateau Pichon Longueville, la Comte... More

California versus Bordeaux Again
This article appeared in Decanter.com 25th. October 06 California in pole position yet again October 24, 2006 Jane Anson ... More

Bordeaux 2006 Anticipated
Bordeaux 2006 anticipated Bordeaux 2006 anticipated.   By Antony le Ray-Cook ... More

Argentinian Wine Results
RESULTADOS CONCURSO CATADOR CMB 2006 GRAN... More

Red or Dead
Red or dead Red or dead.   Close kin to port? Australian reds are getting bigger - and not always b... More

Decanter World Wine Awards gives Waitrose Top Accolade
Decanter World Wine Awards gives Waitrose Top Accolade If this email doesn't display properly, you can view it online 05/... More

New Zealand Vignerons go to Burgundy
Three Central Otago wine producers will travel to Burgundy, in September 2006, for a taste of tradition and culture at the pinot... More

Lebanese and Israei Vendage 2006
Lebanese and Israeli Wineries Harvest Grapes in Wake of War By Elin McCoy More

"Reason enough-screwcaps"
Reason enough-screwcaps Reason enough-screwcaps!   by Keith Stewart More

Poor Wine Farmers are being crushed
Poor Wine Farmers are being crushed by the EU Poor Wine Farmers are being crushed by the... More

Americans led by Robert Parker are rejecting
The Americans led by Robert Parker are rejecting the top Bordeaux 2005 The Americans led ... More

Haut Brion is first to release
Chateau Haut Brion was the first of the big five chateaux to release the first tranche of 2005 wine ... More

Oz Wine or What wine
Oz wine? Australian wineries face continuing massive losses, unless they move now to address structural and distribution iss... More

California versus Bordeaux
California versus Bordeaux In 1976 Steven Spurrier put a tasting together of Californian and Bordeaux wines. Much to the amaz... More

Mayfair Cellars Collapses
NEW JUST IN FROM DECANTER MAGAZINE 16.40 20.1V.2006 Mayfair Cellars collapses April 19, 2006 Adam Lechmere London fi... More

FINE WINES FOR SALE
SO YOU ALWAYS WANTED YOUR OWN WINE CELLAR - NOW YOU CAN BUY THIS ONE OR ANY PART OF IT TO BUILD YOUR OWN FINE WINE CELLAR. Winedine.co.uk e-mail tlc@winedine.co.uk Telephon... More

Global Warming and Wine
Global Warming and Wine: Overwhelming Evidence Although it is a fact that the world More

Ugandan garagists
Ugandan garagists More

Power cuts could make plonk out of SA wine
Power cuts could make plonk out of SA wine Cape Town, South Africa 09 March 2006 01:59 South African wine ... More

Chateau Chaberts goes GOLD
Chateau Chaberts goes GOLD By Antony le Ray-Cook March 2006 Betty Ann Cundall More

Champagne, a French wine not in crisis.
Champagne, a French wine not in crisis. Patrick LeBrun, President of the association, which represents 15,000 wine growers in... More

Cru Artisan and list
Cru Artisan By Antony le Ray-Cook For many years at tastings of Crus Bourgeois during en primeur week in March at the en... More

Chateau Montrose is called?
Chateau Montrose to be bought by Bouygues. By Antony le Ray-Cook Martin Bouygues, patron of the group of BTP and communica... More

India's Wine Expo
India spreads the wine word.... More

Vendage 2005 Provence, Rhone, Minervois
Vendage reports from Provence and the Rhone. By Antony le Ray-Cook 16th October.05 Across Provence the vendage was interr... More

Vendage Mumm and PJ 2005
The 2005 Grape Harvest More

Narbonne Auction
Press release from Narbonne. Oct 05 Narbonne Town Council (France) is to auction some of its wine production to finance the b... More

Portugal's 2005 Harvest
Harvest 2004 – Portugal ViniPortugal Normal Antony le Ray-Cook 2 2005-09-21T13:2... More

Antony le Ray-Cook's response to Rick Stein.
Antony le Ray-Cook's response to Rick Stein. 31.8.05 On 11th August Rick Stein was reported to have said that the majorit... More

Provence Harvest 2005
Provence Harvest 2005 30th August. The vendage has started across the littoral in Provence. The higher vineyards will st... More

US Wines fail the smog test
THE Los Angeles Times write: Wines Fail the ... Smog Test? Controls are proposed to curb ethanol, a pollutant, from S... More

Vintage 2005 Languedoc-Roussillon
Vintage 2005 Languedoc-Roussillon By Antony le Ray-Cook 23 August 2005 Today the vendage began in a number of areas includi... More

Weltevrede receives gold, silver and bronze
Weltevrede receives gold, silver and bronze at the International Wine & Spirit Competition 2005, UK. Weltevrede Wine Estate... More

England Conquers the World with RidgeView Sparkling.
England Conquers the World with RidgeView Sparkling. From the country that More

Les Baux en Provence an up date.
Les Baux en Provence an up date. June 2005 Antony le Ray-Cook This entire appellation is chemical free yet the vigneron... More

SALUTE TO ART DECO
SALUTE TO ART DECO June 29, 2005 20th annual Sonoma Salute to the Arts Celebrates the 1920s with the Bounty of Sonoma County ... More

GRAHAM GREENE CUVEE
THE GRAHAM GREENE CUVEE By Nitin K. Shankar Author Graham Greene More

Grapes to get the bird
Grapes to get the bird. Down in New Zealand wild birds have been driving vignerons mad. They fly in and eat the grapes be... More

US Supreme Court decides on allowing interstate wine sales.
The US Supreme Court decides on allowing interstate wine sales. GREAT NEWS FOR OUR READERS AND FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STA... More

Chateauneuf-du-Pape
Chateauneuf-du-Pape In the past I have often mentioned that there is a difference in the moulded insignia on bottles of Cha... More

Weltevrede 2005 harvest report
Weltevrede 2005 harvest report South Africa 1.3.05 The 2005 vintage came with a bang! It is the soonest and probably quickes... More

Wine May Flood The World.
A Veritable Tsunami of Wine May Flood The World. 1.3.05 Antony le Ray-Cook says that figures of wine production from every w... More

Sad Day for Bordeaux, again.
A Sad Day for Bordeaux, again. Antony le Ray-Cook 27.2.05 Regrettably the seventy-seven chateaux who were thrown out ... More

Tibor Gal has been killed
News has just reached me that Tibor Gal has died. He was killed in a car crash in South Africa, He was a very talented winema... More

Vinexpo 2005 Sissies
Vinexpo the best wine exhibition in the World happens this year. Vinexpo makes the London International Wine Trade Fair look ... More

Valentine's Day 2005
Some ideas as to which fizzz to celebrate with your loved one on this romantic day. Don't forget what all restarateurs say 'there... More

Wine & Dine win wine competition
Wine & Dine win wine competition starts again soon. What would you prefer to win? A nice case of good drinking wine. ... More

Three Classes of Wine by Michael Fridjhon
Three Classes of Wine by Michael Fridjhon The controversy surrounding revelations about the use of fake flavourant in Cap... More

Wines Acquisition Announcement f
Wines Acquisition Announcement from Ivan Menezes It is with great pleasure that I announce exciting news not only for our win... More

Hospice de Beaune 2004
Beaune -- prices fall by a third. Sunday 21st November 2004 Antony le Ray-Cook reports. The Hospice de Beaune auction tod... More

English Wine News Nov. 04
NEAR RECORD 2004 HARVEST PREDICTED THE 2004 HARVEST IN UK is near completion, having started in September with the bulk picke... More

Pierce's Disease an arguement
Pierce's Disease In 2003 Wine & Dine wrote about a cure for this disease. We do not know whether or not is was effective. In... More

Cordier Financial Mess
WINE. --To attempt to re-establish their rather poor financial structure, the house of Cordier Mestrezat is to raise funds by... More

Pr
VDP. The Pr More

Parker and le Ray-Cook
Parker Predicts the Future - Antony le Ray-Cook responds.(parenthesis) Like Parker le Ray-Cook also predicted that 1982 Bor... More

Bordeaux, an early vintage report 2004
John Salvi MW writes from Bordeaux September 2004 Just for information the arrete prefectoral of Monday 6th fixed the ban d... More

Bordeaux Vendage early report
John Salvi MW writes from Bordeaux September 2004 Just for information the arrete prefectoral of Monday 6th fixed the ban d... More

Vendage in Provence 2004
Vendage in Provence - France 2004 Antony le Ray-Cook 2.ix.04 Results The acidity levels from the vignerons are lower ... More

Wine Headaches
Headaches from Wine Sept 04 There is a recognised medical condition called "red wine drinker's headache syndrome".... More

Wine-making waste
Wine-making waste: a natural weapon to beat bacteria Grape pomace extract can be used as an effective anti-microbial agent... More

More Bull
I picked up this article from the internet and as you can see it is mostly bull. It eminates from South Africa who know so much ... More

France 2003? What a vintage
France 2003? What a vintage. Be canny, caveat emptor, have a care, there are some nice wines out there but they need a bloodh... More

Peynaud dies aged 92
Emile Peynaud. Emile Peynaud has died aged 92. The greatest man More

French Wine Sales Are Up. May 2004
French Wine Sales Are Up. May 2004 We keep reading about wine sales dropping in France.The reasons given are the young are ... More

French wine sales are falling at home
Wine sales are falling in France, not because of the price or quality but because of the crack down on drinking and driving ... More

Australian Wine industry is washing itself down the drain.
Australian Wine industry is washing itself down the drain. There is a surplus of 1.58 billion litres, probably enough wine to... More

Razor Blades and Champagne, a connection?
Razor Blades and Champagne, a connection? Antony le Ray-Cook In the March 2004 edition of Ulster Business Review carried an ... More

Bottle up your Pension.
Bottle up your Pension. I have been told that as from April 2005 wine can become part of your pension fund. Well if the price... More

English Fizz Wins Silver in France
Sparkling Success in French Wine Competition A Sussex bubbly has been awarded a Silver Medal in the prestigious French Wine... More

Fake Wine
Fake Wine (eds comment, Flavouring? The enharnessment of tastes! What ever next?) Micheal Fridjhon wrote these two articl... More

Greece -a harvest report
Greece TSANTALI HARVEST REPORT 2003 From Aphrodite Panagiotalides Marketing Communications Manager More

Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2002
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2002 17.iv.03 Perhaps the most famous New Zealand wine is Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc is no... More

Greece- Harvest report 2003
Greece -TSANTALI HARVEST REPORT 2003 From Aphrodite Panagiotalides Marketing Communications Manager More

Imperial Tasting coming soon
Imperial Tasting coming soon. The next wine tasting will be the club's biggest and possibly even London's grandest public... More

Vintage 2003
Vintage 2003 France is enjoying a long hot summer. The vines look very healthy and vignerons are beginning to count in their ... More

Decanter Wine Awards
Decanter Wine Awards June 2003 Decanter launched the Decanter World Wine Awards at Vinexpo 2003. Here are just a few rea... More

Random Oxidation
NOT SO RANDOM OXIDATION Excluding air during bottling will help reduce the incidence of random oxidation. The wine faul... More

Rosa Shows Promise
Taken from: Bark to Bottle, Issue #14, May 2003 Initially, Amorim is using ROSA when processing the cork granules that form ... More

South African Wine News
South African Wine News The Rand is too strong and is causing a poor market for South African wines. They are alreadfy overpr... More

Pierce's disease a cure at long last.
Pierce's disease a cure at long last. Ximed Group claims to have found a way to eradicate Pierce's disease. This nasty i... More

Greek Wine Sale!
Best Greek Wine Share For Sale. 3.3.03 Ch More

Wine Fights Blood Clots
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Basket press brings back tradition in OZ
Basket press brings back tradition in OZ The following press release arrived in our offices. Don More

Giuseppe Nervo !
Lettera aperta all More

Wine MBA
Wine MBA During a recently held ceremony at Ch More

BMA in Wine
Wine MBA During a recently held ceremony at Ch More

WSA Cork Taint Report
A survey of wine sold in Britain suggests that cork producers are making progress against musty corks. Co-ordinated by the UK Wi... More

Australia- Coonawarra Sorted
Australia More

Value White Wine of the Year!
Value White Wine of the year 2002 Err Umm Nottage Hill was voted this title at The International Wine Challenge. Frankly my ... More

Competitions with Great Prizes
Wine & Dine will be running a new series of Competitions. You may be able to win Sailing Gear. Possibly a boat. Ticket... More

Nick Haselgrove
NICK HASELGROVE Nick Haselgrove has grown up surrounded by vineyards. This third generation winemaker is the grandson of Ron ... More

Petaluma
Petaluma A look at Petaluma's Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay Piccadilly was always said by the English to be the centre of ... More

PHYLLOXERA RESISTANT ROOTSOCKS
PHYLLOXERA RESISTANT ROOTSOCKS May 30, 2000 CLONAL DIVERSITY, PHYLLOXERA RESISTANT ROOTSOCKS; FINE TUNED VITICULTURAL TEC... More

DNA Tests-Was the Wine Murdered
Was the wine murdered? DNA says Yes. French super sleuths can now do DNA tests on wine to stop people murdering wine by mixin... More

Was the wine murdered? DNA says Yes.
Was the wine murdered? DNA says Yes. French super sleuths can now do DNA tests on wine to stop people murdering wine by mixin... More

Champagne- Falls 20%
Champagne Prices for the Millennium by Tony le Ray-Cook 19.V1.99 Wine & Dine has been saying in one way or another that the ... More

Goldwater Estate
Goldwater Estate US acclaim for Kiwi winery picked as "International Winery of the Year 2002" The influential US m... More

Corks- WSA Report
Research study verifies instances of TCA-related taint in wine lower than assumed More

Taste For Life, Diabetes Wine tasting
WineCommune's 2nd Annual Wine Tasting Benefit for Diabetes - Reserve now! For full details, goto: http://www.winecommune.co... More

Million Dollar Chardonnay Competition Canceled.
Million Dollar Chardonnay Competition Canceled. 10.July 2002 One Million Dollar Chardonnay of the Century competition was c... More

Biodynamism in Wine
Follow the Moon. Biodynamism in Wine. Follow the Moon. On a recent visit to a vineyard in Italy is saw a moon calneder. I ... More

LEEUWIN ESTATE DINNER
LEEUWIN ESTATE DINNER AT THE TATE GALLERY To celebrate the 20th vintage of Leeuwin Estate Art Series Chardonnay and t... More

Alcohol Overkill
Will the American wine makers ever wake up? Please spare our palates from too much new and toasted oak, and alcohol overkil... More

London Wine Trade Fair and You
London Wine Trade Fair You may say what has the London Wine Trade to do with the ordinary wine buyer. Well as ''The London... More

New Zealand Wine Update 5/02
New Zealand Wine Update The Official Electronic Newsletter of New Zealand Winegrowers May 2002 Well Vintage 200... More

WSET Sweet Wine
June 2002 August 2002 Events at the Wine and Spirit Education Trust In August the Wine and Spirit Education Trust More

Air France Chardonnay from South Africa
PAUL CLUVER CHARDONNAY WINS AIR FRANCE SILVER AWARD June 4, 2002 Silver one The 2000 Paul Cluver Chardonnay, already ... More

Fronsac 2001
The 2001 Vintage in Fronsac Weather conditions and growing season Very mild conditions at the beginning of the growth cycle.... More

CHILE 2002 VINTAGE REPORT
CHILE 2002 VINTAGE REPORT April 2002 By Thierry Villard As most of you already know, there were s... More

AUSTRALIA-Wine a Go-Go.
AUSTRALIA-Wine a Go-Go. Australia expands it More

CHILEAN WINE 2002
CHILEAN WINE 2002 Quality and Quantity may be down. This years southern harvest looks threatened as heavy rains have hit a... More

Bordeaux 2001 Prices
Prices for the 2001 vintage THE GRAND CRUS DES BORDEAUX 2001 While tasting at Chateau Margaux I asked Paul Pontelier abou... More

Beaujolais Crus
Clifford Mould went down the High Street to try the range of quality Beaujolais wines available from Supermarkets and Wine Shops... More

English Wine A short background
There are now 390 vineyards in England and Wales, the largest being 265 acres. The average holding is 6 acres. 115 of these vine... More

France, the New Australia
It seems that one's taste buds change as we get older. It is 22 years since I pioneered Australian wine into the UK market. I... More

WSET Red & White
March 2002 WSET More

WSET Summer School
Beaumes de Venise The Syndicat des Vignerons de Beaumes de Venise invited me to visit them and taste their wines at the... More

Smear Campaign
Smear campaign- January 2002 Jim Budd has for the last few years devoted much of his time to campaigning against wine investm... More

WSET Thumbs Up
WSET More

Cork or Plastic?
Phil Wakelin replies to Wine & Dine More

South Africa Exporters
South Africa WINE EXPORTERS SHOULD ACT EARLY FOR DUTY-FREE QUOTAS Following the signing of EU/SA Wines & Spirits agreem... More

SOUTH AFRICA: Harvest up despite mildew
SOUTH AFRICA: Harvest up despite mildew 29 Jan 2002 Source: Arnold Kirkby More

Oz Expects a Bumper Crop
AUSTRALIA: Bumper wine crop anticipated 29 Jan 2002 Source: just-drinks.com More

Geoffrey Roberts Trust Has $5000
Geoffrey Roberts Award 2002 - go travel! Geoffrey Roberts did a huge amount in the UK buying wines from the New World bef... More

Chicargo Wine School News
CHICAGO WINE SCHOOL Here's what happening in Chicagoland in the near future. ************ 1) CHICAGO WINE SCHOOL BEG... More

South Africa Chardonnay wins
PAUL CLUVER CHARDONNAY WINS TOP AWARD January 14, 2002 Decanter Chardonnay One The Paul Cluver 2000 Chardonnay has w... More

BRL Hardy News
Talk of BRL Hardy as a takeover target has re-emerged in the early part of 2002. A report by the Australian Financial Re... More

Bordeaux 2001 Vintage Report
Bill Blatch Bordeaux 2001 A Negociantes Report Bordeaux 2001 Preliminary 2001 Bordeaux vintage report by Bill Blatch ... More

Van Volxem Takes the Cake
Van Volxem Winery Awarded - Discovery of the Year On 26 November, 2001, Van Volxem Winery (Wiltingen, Saar) was hailed as ... More

Wine Tasting Game
The Wine Tasting Game. Just how much fun can you have with eight people, four bottles of wine, a corkscrew and an excellent c... More

WSET One Night Stands
Wine &Spirit Education Trust WSET More

Miami Wine Fair
Miami International Wine Fair The Miami International Wine Fair is finally here! Mark you calendar for May 10, 11 and 12 of ... More

Chicago Wine School
Chicago Wine School This is the latest in a collection of mailings aimed at advertising the school's offerings as well... More

Pacific North West
PACIFIC NORTHWEST WINE-TOUR SITE PUTS WORLD-WIDE-WEB SPOTLIGHT ON EASTERN WASHINGTON WINE REGIONS As testament to the rapid ... More

Wrattonbully et Al
Wrattonbully et al Notes on the names of Australian Wine Regions, from Peter Forrestal in Australia. ************ The... More

Porto Ferreira is 250 years old
A celebration of 250 Years of Porto Ferreira A. A. Ferreira S.A. was founded in 1751 by a family of wine-growing landowners... More

BBC Food Site
BBCi Food serves up a feast on the web. Whether you're a total novice or a budding Jamie Oliver, the freshly launched BB... More

BERINGER BLASS KICK ASS
Beringer Blass announced Best Australian Producer International Wine & Spirit Competition 2001 At the Annual award ... More

Cape 2002
Wines Of South Africa present.. Cape 2002, The AWESOME wine fair that will be held in South Africa next April. Experie... More

Beer etc Duty Rates
Wine & Dine support UK brewers case. Today 23.x.01 Tlc bought in a French supermarket, Casino, 26 bottles of Kronnebourg for ... More

Oddbin Marriage?
An Odd Marriage! 18th. October. 2001 An Odd Marriage! Holding Soci More

NZ Gets screwed
MORE HORROR. WINERY NEWZ Just Twist and Turn More

New Zealand Wine Harvest 2001
The New Zealand Harvest 2001 Above all, 2001 was a significantly smaller harvest More

Million Dollar Chardonnay
Chardonnay of the Century - Million Dollar Challenge Announces Wine Industry Patrons, Dr. Anton Rupert and Michel Laroche and C... More

Botrytis- A break through
A group of New Zealand scientists have discovered a biological control agent for Botrytis, More

France Export Up 180%
French wine exports to Britain are up by over 180%! France Fights back Some regions have huge increases in their exports. ... More

French Wine Harvest 8.X.2001
French Wine Harvest 8.X.2001 Vineyards in Provence and the Var are reporting a drop of 25% or more in this years harvest. ... More

French Harvest Rubbish
French Harvest 2001 -The Rubbish Stories. September 2001 Every year at harvest time stories abound. The production was do... More

WSET Residencial Coures
NEW RESIDENTIAL DIPLOMA COURSE FOR 2001/2002 ACADEMIC YEAR Applications are now being accepted for WSET More

Champagne- The Alleged and Port Rip Off
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Judges Drinks Investment Firm's Claims Unfounded In a devastating judgement the ASA h... More

Champagne Lanson Awards 1999.
The following awards were presented at Spencer House, the London home of the Earls of Spencer: Tim Atkin won the Black Labe... More

Wolfie's Wine Wins
Wolf Blass Black Label does it again: The Jimmy Watson winning 1998 Wolf Blass Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon has done it ag... More

Bordeaux -FREE
Commuters & Shoppers get a taste for Bordeaux September 2001 Jolly Good News Victoria Station, London, commuters next we... More

Australia -More News
AUSTRALIA - More news September 2001. The wineries of the Australian Continent are told to pull there finger out and lear... More

Auction Two
Wines at the London Salerooms - Clifford Mould reports * Sotheby's * Sotheby's Autumn news * Christies's * Events a... More

Hugh Ryman: Golden Boy - The Sordid Truth
The latest issue of Circle Update (November 1998) exposes the truth behind the careful constructed image of Hugh Ryman, the flyi... More

Ryman and the Flying Winemakers
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Prohibition?
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Port News
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Port Wine Challenge 2000
James Payne wins James Payneof the Sharrow Bay Hotel in the Lake District,fought off three other contestants at Hotelympia on ... More

Ozzie buys USA
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Milk Hormone
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Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy buys more wine.
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London Wine Trade Fair 2000
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Cheap legal Booze for the UK
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HOUGHTON WINES
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Drink Investment Second Arrest: 25.2.99
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Grape Rape. An industry in danger
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G M Crops Another horror story
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WINNERS OF THE GLENFIDDICH AWARDS 1999
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GMO Greenpeace takes action
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Affermazione delle aziende vitivinicole modenesi al Concorso Enologico Nazionale
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Drinks Investment
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Investment Arrests
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Forrester and Lambago
Forrester & Lamego This letter was sent to the editor. Published anonymously by the editor. Dear Sir October 99 I have... More

The English Wine Awards
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The House of Delacroix Naughty, naughty vinious dealings
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Clients of the Coubert Group 99
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News from Chablis A new body in Chablis
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California Winemakers Object
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Beaujolais Nouveau Fifty Years On.
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AUSTRALIAN VINTAGE REPORT 2001 January 31, 2001
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Australian Vintage Report 2001
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Arione
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ARGENTINE HARVEST REPORT for 1999
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AUSTRALIA:Update
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Chardonnay of the Century - Million Dollar Challenge Announces Wine Industry Pat
Vancouver, British Columbia, July 24, 2001- The University of British Columbia (UBC), located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca... More

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Oz Vintage Report 2001
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Red Mayor Saves Mondavi Money
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Wine Maker of the Year 2001
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Move Over For Kiwi Merlot
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