Le French GourMay (until 31 May), and this year it is Burgundy in east-central France, one of the oldest wine growing regions in the country.
In the Hunter Valley 150 km (93 miles) north of Sydney, mid-January is harvest time in what has long been recognized as one of Australia's premium wine growing areas.
City winemakers pride themselves on their relationships with expert growers, from the Napa and Russian River Valley, to the Mendocino Coast, all the way down to the wine growing regions around the towns of Paso Robles and Santa Barbara.
This is the first day that we are recognized by the government as an official, you know, wine-growing region.
Porter gives several (non-silicon) examples, including the wine-growing industry in northern California and the flower-growing business in the Netherlands.
Brazil's traditional wine-growing region, farther from the equator, has just one harvest.
While an Atlantic bay or a mountain valley may make attractively bucolic settings for a fresh foodstuff, the notion of a terroir, as in wine-growing, is misleading.
From one winery to the next along the back-country road that runs through Mendoza, the premier wine-growing region there, Bieler found full-bodied, ripe reds everywhere he looked.
Ms. LINDA REIFF (Executive Director, Napa Valley Vintners): We are aware that our position is different than the governments and than some other American producers, and that is we believe in respecting all wine-growing place names.
For an industry that's been struggling to fend off increasing competition from the growing wine and spirits businesses, the results indicate "an increased risk that new pricing will stick in February, " Swartzberg said.
The 3-liter box of Black Box, the equivalent of four bottles of wine, is the leader in the fastest growing segment of the wine market.
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McCARTHY: A long-held theory among wine aficionados is that growing quality grapes closer to the equator than 30 degrees latitude is impossible.
Ernest said to still be in charge, though Julio's granddaughter Gina has bulk of responsibilities, credited with pushing company into faster-growing premium wine markets.
The growing concentration of wine retailing and distribution is pushing producers to team up.
Growing and making wine here is difficult and expensive, even in a good year.
With our last word in business today, we'll remember a man who solved the problem of growing the American wine industry.
The net result is a growing number of wine makers who are producing entirely sustainable, 100% organic, even biodynamically farmed wines.
"People expect very good wines onboard, " he said, highlighting growing interest in wine in China and the enduring popularity of wines from France's Bordeaux region.
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The idea of raising cashmere goats came to the Al-Rafiqs, who had also considered growing grapes for wine and raising miniature horses, after Ajamu heard a promotion for a National Public Radio spot about the subject.
The fact of the matter is that demand for wine in bottles (as opposed to wine in bags) is growing faster than the supply of properly prepared cork, so there is actually plenty of room in the market for different types of stopper.
Growing up I only saw the hard work part of growing grapes and making wine.
Austria, too, has a growing reputation for sweet wine, with producers such as Nittnaus, Hiedler, Tinhof and Willi Opitz.
The French have been in the business of growing grapes and making wine for a long time, and the Chinese are new at it.
China's wine production is relatively small but growing--730 million liters in 2005 compared with 2, 546 million liters for the U.S. and 898 million liters for Germany.
Wine companies the world over are obtaining growing areas in one another's territories to enhance the range and quality of their products.
The local wine industry exploded along with the college, growing from 17 wineries to about 170.
Betting on the U.S. is significant--though Americans are still not, broadly speaking, wine drinkers, they're the fastest-growing market in terms of dollar sales.
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