Blog:Welcome to India- the New New World
While the news report this week in an Indian business daily talks of the glut in the wine market with more than half the wineries either closed down or without fresh production, a French Report warns France and Europe to buckle up and get ready for competition from the very nations which offer opportunities today, including India.  |
Wine Feature:Chianti with the Capital C
The new law delinking Chianti Classico from the much bigger Chianti region completely was officially announced by Marco Pallanti, the President of Consortium at the Chianti Classico Collection 2010 held at the old Leopolda station in Florence on 16 and 17 February, generating a mixed response. Subhash Arora reports. Normally, the ulti |
Wine Tasting: Lehmann-The Baron of Barossa
The Australian wine industry is going thru what Peter Lehmann Wines Managing Director Doug Lehmann terms as the most difficult trading conditions in the last fifteen years, writes Arun Batra who was at an exclusive tasting where Peter Lehmann Wines from the Barossa valley showcased their offerings on Tuesday.Lehmann should k |
ViewPoint:Geographical Indications for the Skeptical Europe
In the past twenty years, the world wine market has been characterised by New World producers rapidly taking market share from EU producers who were constrained by several agreements that prevented them from mounting challenges, but there is a contradiction in the way the European Union has been seeking protection of Geog |
Antique Wine Press discovered in Israel
Although it is believed that Israel has been making wine for a couple of millennia, Israeli archaeologists claim to have discovered an unusually shaped 1,400-year-old wine press that was exceptionally large and advanced for its time, giving credence to the theory that the wine was perhaps also exported to Egypt at that time. The oc |
French Execs found guilty in Gallo Trial
The thirteen wine producers and traders on trial in the Gallo wine scandal were found guilty of having supplied a large quantity of fake Pinot Noir wines and six were handed a suspended prison sentence in a rare case in which the president of the criminal court said on Wednesday that the fraud had been committed. Claude Courset of t |
