Premiere Napa Valley auction takes $3.04m
Premiere Napa Valley, the annual barrel auction that has become one of the biggest events in the California wine calendar, took a total of US$3.04m on Saturday, just shy of last year's record.
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Investment kitemark 'should be global' says WIA
Investment safeguards put in place by the Wine Investment Association and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau should ‘go global’, a WIA director has said.
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'More consolidation' as big grocers move in on drinks companies, says Waverley boss
The UK drinks industry should brace itself for more consolidations, mergers and failures in 2013, the former managing director of collapsed drinks company Waverley TBS has said.
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Lebanon increases German investment by 50%
With 'a stable platform' now in the UK, the Union Viticole du Liban, the country's wine trade body, says it is switching its focus to Germany.
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Domaine de la Romanee-Conti releases 2010 vintage
Burgundy's Domaine de la Romanee-Conti has released its 2010 vintage – a year which owner Aubert de Villaine described as 'Homeric'.
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England's Rathfinny 'will export 50%'
Mark Driver, owner of England’s largest single-vineyard wine estate, intends to export at least 50% of his production when the estate is at its capacity of 1m bottles.
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Burgundy 2011: Decanter's verdict
Burgundy 2011 is seductive, the best whites ‘pure and willowy’, the reds lively and charming, Jeannie Cho Lee MW says in her summing up of the vintage for Decanter.
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Dom Perignon launches 'singing and dancing' Rosé 2002
Dom Perignon has launched its 2002 Rosé – a wine produced in conditions described by chef de cave Richard Geoffroy this week as ‘unexpectedly perfect.’
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Naples wine auction down one third
Florida’s Naples Winter Wine Festival last weekend took a total of US$8.6m – a third less than last year and half the auction’s peak takings of 2007.
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ExCellar in administration
ExCellar, the wine retail chain owned by ex-Oddbins boss Simon Baile, has gone into administration.
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Wines of South Africa protests Guardian 'boycott' poll
Wines of South Africa has condemned the Guardian newspaper's poll on a South African wine boycott as 'unfair'and 'damaging'.
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South African harvest 'all calm', report wineries
South African wineries continue to insist the farmworkers' strikes have nothing to do with them, despite repeated union calls for further strikes and boycotts.
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South African unrest 'does not involve wine workers' says WoSA
As unrest returns to South African vineland, Wines of South Africa says the wine industry is not at present involved.
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BBR publishes Inside Burgundy as wine ebook
Berry Bros and Rudd has launched Jasper Morris MW's definitive Inside Burgundy on iPad – the first wine book to use Apple's iBooks Author programme.
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Sogrape 'very happy' to buy back Jose Berardo stake
After six years of court battles Portuguese wine company Sogrape is now back under control of its founding family.
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Jeff Koons designs 2010 Mouton Rothschild label
Chateau Mouton Rothschild has unveiled a wine label designed by controversial modernist artist Jeff Koons for its 2010 vintage.
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Eighteenth-century Cognac fetches £17k at Christie's
A bottle of pre-Revolutionary Cognac fetched more than four times its estimate at Christie's yesterday.
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Robert Parker Singapore investor 'named' as Soo Hoo Khoon Peng
A source close to the deal that Robert Parker has struck with a group of Singapore businessmen to sell Wine Advocate have confirmed the main shareholder is Soo Hoo Khoon Peng, formerly of wine importers Hermitage.
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Depression risk reduced in women who drink moderately
The risk of depression is significantly lower in women who drink moderate amounts of wine, a study has found.
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Louis Latour cements Beaujolais presence
Maison Louis Latour has just taken an 18-year lease on Chateau des Labourons in Fleurie – an important move in their long-term plan for Beaujolais presence.
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Robert Parker steps down as Wine Advocate editor-in-chief
Significant changes are underway at the Wine Advocate as Robert Parker has announced he has taken on three new Asian investors and is opening up a new office in Singapore, from where the magazine will be run.
