... is a man who has served his fair share of wine in his lifetime. Henri Jayer, world famous maker ... rejected almost half his crop to salvage his best wine, Rolin recalled. The son of a winegrower ... . Jayer. Red wine helps fight Alzhiemers. Hey, did you know that Pinot is red?! At the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, laboratory mice given Cabernet Sauvignon-based wine over a seven...

The June/July issue of Gourmet Traveller Wine is out and the main headline reads ‘Big Red Issue’. Hands up if anyone hasn’t seen this on the front of a wine magazine before. The magazine has a history of giving Tasmanian plenty of positive coverage but there isn’t as much in it this time around. A brief bit in the News section reports on Andrew Pirie’s plans to increase production...

A staggering amount of information is contained in the 580 pages of the latest South African Wine Industry Directory (Sawid), now available. A must-have tool, Sawid 2006/7 provides contact details, facts and figures to keep professionals in the wine business informed about the who’s who and what’s what in the industry...

Just another sad example of how wine is not immune from the war on terror. More info at the Ship Compliant Blog...

September saw the official opening of the first winesense boutique retail outlet at Cavendish Square in Cape Town’s Southern Suburbs. This innovative wine retail concept is set to take both the wine industry and wine consumers by storm...

What’s with all this “pink marketing” to women wine consumers? Pink labels, low-calorie ‘lite’ wines, and books that compare wines to wardrobe choices. On the Women Wine Critics Board web blog ... more to women than men? Who are the wine collectors in the family? Who are the point chasers? Do ... and director of research for Wine Opinions. “We do market research for a variety of wineries...

The Fort Simon Estate has just launched a cutting-edge website which promises to entice and entertain.

Drive Out offers a quarterly forum to promote new labels and developments within the industry...

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... orders for wine club and daily orders - wine shippers:- direct cost of shippers = $5 per ... needed for shippers - time spent transferring wine to the winery or within the winery ... instead of fulfillment? For many wineries their wine club shipments are a half-day to all-day ... or maintaining a wine club this is an easy decision when looking at the financial benefits to outsourcing...