In the long run, Two-buck Chuck could do California's wine industry more good than harm.
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Consolidation in the wine industry is being driven by Constellation, the world's biggest winemaker.
The local wine industry exploded along with the college, growing from 17 wineries to about 170.
One certainty is that the Australian wine industry is quite capable of competing in the international marketplace.
But he does say that redirecting the Australian wine industry down a quality-first route is the correct strategy.
"China represents effectively the biggest growth prospect that the wine industry has had probably for a generation, " said Halstead.
Champagne, and the wider wine industry, is a massive business both in France and a series of other countries.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg says South Africa's wine industry is trying to recover from its chequered past.
The Parkerisation of the Australian wine industry would, in many ways, be regrettable.
With our last word in business today, we'll remember a man who solved the problem of growing the American wine industry.
In 1973, everything remained to be done in a place where the modern wine industry was just gaining a tenuous foothold.
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Southcorp talked to Beringer and, according to wine industry sources, has negotiated with Kendall-Jackson (see following story) and other California wineries.
Such thinking was as rampant throughout the New Zealand wine industry as much as the belief that a two-bedroom house in Stockton, Calif.
Likewise, the new vines that were planted at that time, when the wine industry was overhauled, are finally beginning to yield superior wines.
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"The wine industry has been known to be white and when you have to come in you initially feel like an outsider, " said Biyela.
There is a lot of talk in the wine industry about balance, but few labels can claim the history of balance that Jordan enjoys.
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With that, the opportunities are endless, especially for the wine industry.
On either side of Santa Rosa (metro population in 2000: 459, 000) sits a substantial pocket of tech industry and the better part of America's wine industry.
While the port wine industry remains strong, local grapes are now also being used to make fine red and white table wines that are attracting much foreign interest.
Last week brought more dispiriting news for the big-brand Australian wine industry, as U.S. import buyers continued to favor Argentine and Kiwi labels for their everyday quaffs.
More recently, in an attempt to protect its own wine industry, the State of New York imposed a higher tax on non-New York wines sold in the State.
This performance outpaced other wine industry funds, (see table, below).
Years of Soviet domination ravaged the once-respected Hungarian wine industry.
The Wine Spectator and the Wine Advocate are the two most powerful point sources in the wine industry, but there are many, many reviewers who use the 100-point system.
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That, in turn, has allowed the big companies that dominate the Australian wine industry to demonstrate that it is possible to produce excellent and consistent wines in large quantities.
For the next 10 years she came up against big names in Kenya's wine industry, but in 2007, taxes imposed on alcohol manufacturing made it difficult to keep prices low.
Grower co-operatives have a long history in champagne as they do in the rest of the French wine industry but they have never had a reputation for quality produce or skilled marketing.
Even if, as Day argues, the price is low for the company that owns the supermarket-mainstay Hardys and Banrock Station wineries, the merger suggests IWIF's vision is playing out: The wine industry's globalization is inevitable.
It maybe a little more than 20 years since the end of apartheid opened up the wine industry to the wider world but vines have been tended in this corner of the globe since the mid-17th century.
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