Wine Business

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First Dutch restaurant winelist with qr-codes

26/04/2011 Jozef Schildermans 1

Restaurant Hamdorff in Laren is the first Dutch restaurant with a wine list that you can scan with your smartphone. Each wine on the list has a so-called QR-code. If you scan this code with your smartphone or tablet, a webpage is opened where you’ll find all the information on the wine. A QR-Code or Quick Response code is a two-dimensional barcode that originally was developed to help identify car parts. Today the code is used in many places, such as advertising and packaging. Most smartphones have an app to scan qr-codes. With the Qr-code generator on the internet, you > Read more …

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Piper-Heidsieck and Charles Heidsieck sold to clothing holding

17/03/2011 Jozef Schildermans 0

According to Decanter, the French drinks group Remy Contreau has sold Champagnes Piper-Heidsieck and Charles Heidsieck for 400 million euros to the Société Européenne de Participations Industrielles (EPI), the holding of the French family Descours, which is mainly active in the clothing sector. EPI controls the clothing brands JM Weston, Francois Pinet, Alain Figaret and Bonpoint. The Descours family also owns > Read more …

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Vandals destroy 500-year old vineyard

11/02/2011 Jozef Schildermans 0

In Austria, vandals destroyed a historic vineyard, reports the AP news agency. In the 500-year-old vines grow old vines which are considered the great-great grandparent of Grüner Veltliner. One or more unknowns chopped most vines into pieces. Perhaps all the vines are lost. The vineyard was rediscovered in 2000 near the village of St. Georgen, a suburb of Eisenstadt in > Read more …

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Half of Australian Hunter Valley vineyards ripped out

31/01/2011 Jozef Schildermans 0

Almost half of all vineyards in Hunter Valley, Australia’s oldest wine region, were ripped out in the past eighteen months, reports the Australian newspaper Newscastle Herald based on information from the Hunter Valley Wine Industry Association. Fifteen hundred of the 3,250 hectares of vineyards in the valley or 46% of the total have disappeared, especially in the Upper Hunter Valley, where > Read more …

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Growing success for the wines of AOC Cahors

17/01/2011 Jozef Schildermans 2

The AOC Cahors is celebrating its fortieth anniversary. After a long period of declining sales figures, the succes of the “black wines” of Cahors is growing again. The combination of increased sales efforts, leaving fallow 568 acres of vineyards and less abundant crops resulted in higher export figures in 2010. In 2000, Cahors exported only six percent of its harvest. > Read more …

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Revue du Vin de France launches Chinese edition

13/01/2011 Jozef Schildermans 0

La Revue du Vin de France (RVF), the famous French magazine about wine, launches an edition for the Chinese market, according to the Marie Claire Group, publisher of the title. La Revue du Vin de France was founded in 1927 and is the largest European wine magazine and the third wine magazine in the world, after Decanter and Wine Spectator. > Read more …

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Twitter auctions Fledgling wine for charity

08/12/2010 Jozef Schildermans 0

Until December 16 you can bid on signed bottles of Fledling wine with the Twitter logo on its label. The proceeds from the e-Bay auction go to Room to Read, an nonprofit from San Francisco that sponsors reading programs in Uttarakhand, India. Fledgling was founded late last year by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. All proceeds are intended for charity. Fledgling > Read more …