“Judging Australian wine shows is the closest I’ve ever come to hand-to-hand combat.” So says wine writer Tim Atkin the Uk’s The Observer: “No one actually exchanges punches, but the verbal fisticuffs can be brutal. If you’re brought up to be polite and to consider someone else’s point of view ... wine wine shows judging , wine , wine shows...

Over the course of several weeks (basically as time permits), I’ll be putting up past shows on the site. For those shows, I plan to post them as new podcast entries, even though they are weeks (if not months) old. To distinguish these shows-from-the-archives, I’ll be posting them with “Wine Biz Redux” instead of “Wine Biz Radio”. There, that was easy. Share...

Neil Pendock reports from the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in Maastricht and highlights some attractions this show holds for producers and judges.

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Nederburg’s two new top-end wine labels, Manor House and Ingenuity, mark an exciting new phase in the development of the 216-year-old winery, says marketing manager, Misti Watson.

Research conducted over three years by an agricultural research center in southwestern Germany appears to offer scientific proof of a nebulous tenet long championed by enophiles: Terroir exists and matters.