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- February 08, 2017
Planning to join in on Chinese New Year celebrations? Decanter restaurant critic Fiona Beckett gives tips for pairing wines with popular Chinese dishes, from a Western perspective. What to drink on any given occasion depends where you come from so we in Europe and the US have a different perception of the kind of wines […]
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- February 03, 2017
I’m paying a bill from one of the warehouses where I cellar wine when I hear a little voice in my head whisper ominously to me: Why would any sane person even bother starting a wine collection today? The compounding wine warehousing bills, not to mention my motley crew of wine fridges in the garage, […]
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- February 03, 2017
British Prime Minister Teresa May’s announcement yesterday that the UK is heading for a ‘hard’ Brexit – with no automatic access to the European single market – surprised nobody. But it provided a lot of food for thought to members of the wine industry, and not just in the British Isles. Mike Veseth, the ‘Wine […]
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- February 01, 2017
January 2017 Wine Investment Report December month was positive for both Bordeaux and other regions of the wine market. December is normally a slower month due to fewer trading days for the holiday season, nevertheless the numbers still proved a positive outcome for the period. Bordeaux wines showed an increase of 0.72% in January versus […]
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- January 27, 2017
A Chinese food and restaurant group has bought Domaine de Bellair on Bordeaux’s Right Bank and plans to use the wine to supply its businesses across Asia. Golden Field, a multinational food and drink company based in China and Taiwan, is the latest in a succession of Asian investors in Bordeaux wine. A fee for Domaine […]
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- January 25, 2017
Jane Anson looks beyond proclamations that ‘Bordeaux is back’ and analyses the numbers to see what might be in store for the region’s wines ahead of the 2016 en primeur season, particularly in a UK market preparing to throw itself into the Brexit quagmire. At the end of December 2016, a spate of reports fluttered […]
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- January 25, 2017
Theresa May’s speech on the UK’s Brexit strategy filled in some blanks but left key questions unanswered for wine drinkers, workers, importers and retailers. Prime minister Theresa May confirmed this week that the UK was willing to sacrifice membership of the EU single market and customs union in order to secure greater control over immigration and […]
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- January 25, 2017
Tension is rising in southern France after winemakers staged a day of action, emptying at least one tanker of Spanish wine and blocking a depot used by the wine subsidiary of Carrefour supermarket. Sixty protesters block supermarket-owned depot near Nîmes They then attacked a tanker suspected of carrying Spanish wine […]
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- January 23, 2017
US officials have risked re-opening old wounds with Champagne houses by picking a ‘California Champagne’ for president Donald Trump’s inauguration lunch. See the full menu below – and it doesn’t include bottles from the Trump winery in Virginia. ▪California ‘Champagne’, plus Cabernet and Chardonnay make the line-up California wines will be the toast of president […]
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- January 19, 2017
Champagne has seen its global growth trajectory dented after fewer people popped corks in the UK following the country’s EU referendum, show preliminary figures. – Global Champagne sales estimated at 306 million bottles in 2016, versus 312m in 2015 – Value of orders hits 4.5bn euros, down on 2015 but still second highest on record – Lower […]
