Wine Business

Although the total French wine production fell by two percent in 2010, our southern neighbors remain the world’s largest wine producer, reports the Organisation internationale de la Vigne et du Vin (OIV). Although the final figure is not completely calculated, France will this year produce 44.45 million hectoliters of wine. Globally, this year 260 million hectoliters of wine has been > Read more …

Japanese diplomats will have to thin their wine cellars. The Japanese foreign ministry has started an audit to measure the value of the wine cellars of the Japanese embassies abroad. Wine cellars that are too big need to be culled. The affected Japanese embassies will either have to sell the wines, or send them to colleagues with smaller cellars. According > Read more …

The alternative Australian closure for a bottle of sparkling wine Zork SPK which we reported on back in 2004, is coming to Europe. The British supermarket chain Tesco now sells four sparkling wines with this resealable stopper: Sparkling Brut Rosé Mateus, Tesco 1531 Blanquette de Limoux, Dino Durello Spumante, and Tesco Finest Angas Brut Rose, reports the British magazine Harpers > Read more …

At restaurants, receptions and meetings more and more Belgians prefer to drink beer; the popularity of champagne and wine is in decline. This emerged from the fourth beer barometer of the Union of Belgian Brewers and the newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. Twenty-five percent of Belgian restaurant visitors prefer beer, in comparison to only eighteen percent just three years ago. At a > Read more …