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WINE BUSINESS MONTHLY
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Wine Industry News for Wednesday Nov 19, 2008
Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, the Hudson River Valley's premier wine estate, is pleased to offer custom-labeled wine -- that is, with customers' uniquely personalized labels affixed to the bottles -- to both individuals and corporations.
Re-corking and certification of a fine bottle of wine by experts can also add value to it.
Olinger Distributing was nominated on behalf of the Indianapolis Zoo to receive this prestigious award. Olinger has donated wine and spirits for its Zoobilation event for over ten years, allowing the Zoo to raise over $5 million.
The sparkling wine category has always had to operate in the shadow of Champagne. However the continuous growth of non-Champagne sparkling wine has been one of the less well-publicized developments of the wine world, with the market rising.
From 1994 through 2007, the U.S wine market grew every year, increasing in volume a total of 66 percent. In 2007 Americans over the age of 21 consumed on average a record 2.47 gallons for the year.
EcoEarth, LLC, a community web publishing company, launches http://www.VinoBuff.com. The premier and most talked about destination for wine-lovers around the world, VinoBuff.com is designed as a straightforward, simple, forum-based community.
With so much doom and gloom for California and Brazilian grape shippers, The Chilean grape harvest out of the earliest regions of Copiapó is expected to start in Week 47 with the first of the Flames and early white seedless varieties.
Grapes like Lagrein, Tempranillo and Touriga Nacional may be the indigenous varieties in Italy, Spain and Portugal, they are considered alternative varietals in Australia where the best in each category are selected every November, reports Dan Traucki from Australia.
Starting Nov. 29 the wineries will host the Temeculights Holiday Festival, a spectacular month-long celebration that includes more than 200,000 LED (light emitting diode) lights that stretch over rooftops and vineyards and provide more than 14 miles of low-wattage visual excitement.
Indage UK, part of India's largest wine producer the Indage Group, has made an offer to buy a Norfolk based winery as it seeks to expand its UK presence.
It is the first Italian wine to be sold through this marketplace - traditionally the preserve of classified growths and a small number of foreign icon wines.
The 2004 vintage in Châteauneuf-du-Pape is the best since 2001
Several California wineries have tried to take advantage of the tradition and released their newly bottled wine ahead of the French counterpart. Over the years, the quality of French beaujolais nouveau wines has improved, but it is subject to poor harvesting and vintages.
Collaboration is a private label joint venture with Clos LaChance Winery and WineStyles, the nation's largest wine store franchise. Ten percent of the retail price of each bottle of Collaboration sold in WineStyles' more than 150 stores nationwide will benefit Share Our Strength's work to end childhood hunger.