Winexpression

Australian wine producers were urged to look at the younger wine consumer and strengthen their branding effort by Michele Levine of Roy Morgan Research. Comments from Levine included “‘Young people are driven by brands — brand is what matters to them — and they will pay whatever the brand is able to ask.”
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Raise a glass – 1,200 of them to be exact – to New Jersey, new home to the world’s largest bottle of wine.
A business in Tenafly, in northern New Jersey, paid $55,812 ($66,279 Cdn) for a 1.35-metre-tall bottle of cabernet sold Saturday at Sotheby’s, said auction house spokeswoman Kristin Gelder.
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South Africa –
Wine.co.za is spearheading the wine industry’s online marketing drive of its tourism portfolio in a brand new service offering both local and international visitors to the Cape’s world-renowned winelands a unique, user-friendly, and effortless way of locating wine tourism destinations and planning their itineraries accordingly
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Oregon is rolling out an interesting program at some of it’s wineries this holiday season. The ‘Wineology Weekend,’ which replaces the Wine Passport of years past, is an informative and fun way to spend the Thanksgiving holiday weekend while staying in the close confines of Washington County.
For $20 tasters get eight wine classes at Washington [...]

Yellow Tail, Fat Bastard, Goats du Roam. If you were hired to design a wine label, what would you come up with. Would you take the conservative road and create a simple, elegant, informational label, or would you get crazy? That’s what some have done, but it sometimes reflects bad on the wine quality, as [...]

This is quite possibly the best review I have seen for a bottle under $10. The descriptors used are amazing. The only bottle I have tried, (not recently), is the Chardonnay, which I felt was a great value for the price. Trader Joe’s here in California carries all three Yellow Tail products mentioned in this [...]

Interested in taking a trip to Oregon or Washington to taste wine? Grab one of these handy guides for information on where to stay, eat and taste.
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A new winery to open in Monterey in 2005, called San Saba Vineyards. The owner has been growing grapes for a few decades, now tries to tackle the retail front end, instead of just selling his grapes. From thecalifornian.com
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Another article about the new film, Sideways, that features wine as it’s premise. How will this movie fair at the box office?
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It’s Official! The Chalone Wine Group has accepted a buyout offer, but there is still time for a higher bidder to make an offer.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chalone Wine Group (CHLN) said on Monday it accepted an $11.75 per share buyout offer from French luxury wine maker Domaines Barons de Rothschild.
The deal, which would transfer [...]