Screw-caps gained ground in terms of affinity in both the US and Australian wine markets, while the US wine market retains a different attitude, with…
Screw-caps gained ground in terms of affinity in both the US and Australian wine markets, while the US wine market retains a different attitude, with…
Of the 205 entries, 190 wines won medals, accounting for 95% of all wines in the competition, including 15 gold, 111 silver and 64 bronze, with a further 4 awarded highly commended. Still wines were the overall winners, scooping 66% of the total medals (44 still white, 16% rosé and 6% red). The wines were judged over two days at Balliol College in Oxford by…
Held over last weekend Auction Napa Valley is the NVV’s annual community fundraiser to raise funds to enhance the health and wellbeing of the Napa Valley community. To date, the NVV has invested more than $120 million from the auction proceeds in Napa County non profit organisations. Co-chair Jeff Gargiulo of Gargiulo vineyards, said: “It wasn’t just us who did this. It was the more…
The panel debate hosted by master of wine Tim Atkin focused on the difficulties faced by the chateau, the merchants and consumers who director of Farr Vintners Tom Hudson said: “Have walked away from en primeur. “Why would they [buy] when they can get it cheaper later? En premier is not terminal, we can go back, but we need to have some reality,” Hudson added.
The Tempranillo Blancos, branded under the line Cata Cero, are believed to be the first of their respective styles in the region – one being a fresh, un-oaked wine, the other having undergone carbonic maceration. The Tempranillos are half of a quartet of new 2013 vintage, limited edition bottles that prevailed from over a dozen experiments to create new wine styles at the brand’s Experimental…
Russia Wine Market, WI’s new Landscape report, details the consumer behaviour and attitudes of imported wine drinkers resident in Moscow and St Petersburg, representing a consumer market of approximately six million imported wine drinkers. The study compared findings from a survey of a representative sample of this population in March 2014, from a survey using the same methodology in March 2012. The WI report says…
This year’s WSET Riedel Educator of the Year, Erica Dent, will guide participants through the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) entry-level Level 1 award in wines at the Hotel TerraVina in southern England’s New Forest. The Hotel TerraVina is owned and run by the internationally well known wine expert Gerard Basset OBE, MS, MW, Wine MBA and a Sommelier World Champion. Basset is the WSET’s…
The one-time CNBC Africa ‘Business Leader of the Year for Southern Africa’, succeeds Johann Krige. He has been hailed as one of South Africa’s most visionary and progressive business leaders, Jordaan was in charge of FNB when it was ranked the world’s most innovative bank by the BAI-Finacle Global Banking Innovation Awards in Washington in 2012. it is said his entrepreneurial strengths, strong customer focus…
