According to Georgia’s National Wine Agency (NWA), over 28 million bottles of wine were exported to 46 countries last month, bringing $64.8 million back into the economy. In August 2016 Georgia exported 42 percent more wine year-on-year (y/y), and generated 16 percent more revenue by selling 28,156,547 bottles of wine abroad.
Durif was discovered in the 1860s in an experimental vineyard in France’s Isere region, and takes its name from the man who’d established the vineyard.
Lodestar Anstalt v Campari America LLC [2016] FCAFC 92 is important because it clarifies what constitutes ‘control’ in determining whether use of a trademark by a licensee is ‘authorised use’. It is the latest, in Australia, in the ongoing battle concerning the WILD GEESE trademarks. It is a unanimous decision of the Full Bench (five judges) of the Court of Appeal of the Federal Court on appeal from a single judge on appeal, in turn, from the registrar of trademarks.
Wine producers in the New South Wales central west are being forced to adapt to rising temperatures which are affecting the region’s “cool climate” drops.
THE Barossa Valley has some of the oldest grapevines in the world and some of the oldest labels-productions in Australia. So in terms of vinous age Hentley Farm is but a glint in the milkman’s eye. Keith and Alison Hentschke searched for many years to find the right location before purchasing the 1840s-built Hentley Farm, located in the Seppeltsfield region, in the late 1990s.
Wine Market Council, a non-profit association of grape growers, wine producers, importers, wholesalers, retailers, and other affiliated wine businesses, today announced a partnership with the Wine Business Institute, a research and education institute of the School of Business and Economics at Sonoma State University, to bring an academic perspective to Wine Market Council’s research and industry insights.
My feelings about screw caps on wine have been complicated. I know that good wine can be under a screw cap, but I also have had fear of the screw cap.
Two highly respected international wine personalities will be joining this year’s judging panel for the country’s premier wine competition, the Air New Zealand Wine Awards.
The national representative winegrape growers organisation has a new constitution and a new trading name. Yesterday, members of Wine Grape Growers Australia (WGGA) voted in favour of a new constitution and a new trading name, Australian Vignerons. “This is not the end of a period of hard work – it is the start of it,” said Andrew Weeks, WGGA executive director.
GRAPE and wine producers are being asked to participate in an online survey about production practices. The survey, launched last week by The Australian Wine Research Institute, is aiming to determine how common a range of different production practices are.