... that potentially an independent wine maker or company will pick up what I think will be a really good investment ... not be seen as a loss in confidence in the region’s grape industry. The Adelaide-based Hardy Wine Company ... of the company as the industry struggles with a wine glut which is cutting into profits. Chief Minister ... here and played a real pivotal role in increasing both our profile and the quality of wine being...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa’s biggest wine and spirit maker Distell reported an 8.3 percent rise in annual headline earnings per share on Tuesday and predicted growth this year, but at a slower pace. Distell said in a statement headline EPS — which excludes capital, non-trading and certain one-off items — rose to 271.5 cents in the year to the end of June from 250.6 cents the previous...

SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Concha y Toro (CHT.SN: Quote , Profile , Research )(VCO.N: Quote , Profile , Research ), Chile’s biggest wine exporter, said on Tuesday its board agreed to pay out a 2.50 peso per share dividend at the end of the month. Concha y Toro said in a statement to the local bourse that the provisional dividend would be payable as of Sept. 29… READ MORE...

Lange 2005 Pinot Noir: Holy crap. That's a good wine...

The New York Times has an excellent article [free registration required] about the whole sphere of the 100-point wine scoring system. Required reading for any wine enthusiast...

A fantastic buy at $13 a bottle, Toad Hollow's Erik's the Red is a massive, full bodied, and downright festive red wine. It is made up of 15 different grapes and may well be the perfect table wine for any occassion. It is fruity - with ripe...

The title of ‘Wine Tasting’ was a bit misleading. What Casa Ludovico held was a cuisine and wine experience. Most wine tastings are pretty similar. I expected an array of five or six wines, a few plates of bread and crackers, a bunch of people standing around talking quietly among themselves while...

Tomorrow (6/14/2005) a local Italian restaurant is having a wine tasting. I will be there to see what they have to offer. I believe there will be some more affordable wines involved although I know a few of the offerings will be rather expensive but I am hoping to find some values...

... on the wide topics of wine here given that it’s one of the central themes here, so I’ve added subcategory tags to the Wine category for Appellations & Vintages , Ohio Wine , Wine Blogs and Wine Science . I was thinking about adding a few more subcategory tags, such as Wine Law & Policy or Wine Events. My ... . Those two that I mention perhaps? A wine reviews tag separate from the general reviews category...

"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, the bare-knuckle opinions can come as a shock. 'I thought that wine was fucked, mate,' a fellow...