The Wine Industry Chronicle
How wineries can improve their bottom line
Generations of vintners know that the wine business is not for the faint of heart. The industry demands plenty of business smarts, a full-time commitment, and a lot of cash to be successful — all before the first crush. The packaging quick-win All of us have made...
Why the digital economy is failing wine brands
Nobody could have predicted a pandemic to hit our world in 2020. For years observers to the wine industry have highlighted the precarious condition of digital wine trade. Coronavirus and COVID-19 have not started, but only heightened the challenged based by a large majority of wine producers.
COVID-19 to end free wine tastings in Australia?
For many years, free wine tastings were prevalent in Australia, even as wineries in California were increasingly moving towards paid tastings. Today, thanks a global pandemic, Australian wineries are forced to adapt their business model.
Building a Disney World for Wine
To encourage the country's passion for the grape, China is building French-style chateaus and Italianate castles around the country. Chateau Changyu Reina has honey-colored brick towers that enclose wide cobbled courtyards. Wood-beamed halls look as if they are...
Macron’s tasting skills ahead of French presidents
Will Emmanuel Macron end a run of French presidents with a perceived ambivalence towards wine? A video of the new chef d'etat blind tasting on the campaign trail suggests that he at least has a better grasp of the basics versus his three predecessors... Emmanuel...
Release Update: August 2020
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International wine prize for Indian-Australian winemaking couple
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Wine industry raises a glass to rosy future
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South Australians Dominate 2017 Young Gun of Wine Awards – The Adelaide Review
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Why blending wine is a fast-growing trend
For better or worse, and in some cases both, American wine drinkers are in thrall with the Blend. The wines, composed of three, four, five, or more unidentified and often disparate red varieties, emblazoned with flashy names and at times lurid identity systems,...
The extraordinary story of the biggest wine hoax
A camera recorded Rudy Kurniawan, twenty-six years old but looking young enough to be carded, as he attended a Christie's wine auction in Los Angeles, a catalog of fancy wines in his lap. The rare Asian among older white males, he wore a caramel-colored leather...
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