Archive for the ‘Wine News’ Category
It is such a common story I hesitate to even deliver this information to FERMENTATION readers. However, I can’t resist. Reports in Illinois newspapers have that state’s beer and wine distributors delivering more bribes campaign contributions to legislators in the first half of this year than in any other six month period in history. The stories note that it was during this time that the Illinois beer and wine distributors were looking to the legislature to pass a law that…
The Hypergigantitholic (that’s a technical term in the wine industry meaning "BIG") wine company known a Constellation seems to find itself in a bit of an embarrassing situation down in Australia. According to reports, in an attempt to influence sales trials at a dining chain that was testing the popularity of a couple Constellation brands before adding them to their list, Constellation told their employees to go to these restaurants and buy the wine in order to "maximize volumes" during…
I suspect THIS STORY will be picked up around the wine blogosphere. If it isn’t it should be. It appears that an Australian winery, perturbed that a wine blogger’s poor review of their wines shows up high in the search engines, had threatened legal action against the blogger. I was made aware about this turn of events through an email sent to me, and many others I believe, by the folk at Wine Life Today. They were highlighting a post…
The New York Time’s Eric Pfanner has an interesting story today about a French wine company apparently doing something extraordinary for a French wine company: Branding! The story has become a fairly familiar one: The French, having trouble competing with competition from new world wineries and their own tradition, must do something to revive their franchise as the premier producers of wine in the world. The person behind the new French Branding Experiment is Pierre Courbon, the director of international…
The oversupply woes that have hit Australia’s wine market over the past couple of years appear to have generated a wine that many in America will recognize. The Aussies are referring to a wine that hit the shelves there at a price of $1.99AU as "Two Buck Chuck" in reference to the Charles Shaw wine of the same American dollar price that Trader Joes sells and which is made by the Franzia family. The Australian wine industry doesn’t like this…
