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China, March 12th 2010
China becomes huge market for Bordeaux
from The Daily Telegraph

China has become the biggest export market for bordeaux wines outside the European Union as overall exports have collapsed due to the economic crisis and a strong euro put some wines beyond US and British buyers. The sector has high hopes of the 2009 harvest, with young wines being presented to the international trade and journalists over the coming weeks.
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France, March 12th 2010
French propose wine tastings to counter bingeing

by Lizzy Davies at The Guardian

Most countries struggling to deal with the scourge of teenage binge drinking attempt to separate bottle and drinker. In France they do things differently. A government-commissioned report is advising university canteens to hold wine-tasting sessions to educate the young in the virtues of moderate consumption.

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Australia, March 12th 2010
Australian wine bodies restructure

by Sandra Godwin at weeklytimesnow.com.au

Restructuring the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation has begun, with staff cuts and a plan to combine the administration of the wine industry's four major national bodies under one roof.

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Chile, March 11th 2010
Chilean vintners may go broke after quake

by Matt Craze and Rodrigo Orihuela at Bloomberg.com

Chile’s strongest earthquake in 50 years may bankrupt smaller winemakers after vines collapsed, casks broke apart and millions of liters were spilled, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker-turned-winemaker said.

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United Kingdom, March 11th 2010
Vineyard destroyers

by Tim Atkin MW at The Times

The Chilean earthquake isn’t the only natural disaster to hit the wine business in the past year. Madeira, the tiny volcanic island that produces some of the best fortified wines on the planet, was pounded by floods last month, with many of its vineyards washed away, while in Australia, the bushfires that killed 173 people in the summer of 2009 also torched a significant part of the Yarra Valley’s vineyards.

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South Africa, March 11th 2010
South African government to reject wine lands mining bid

from Reuters

South Africa's government will not approve an application by a state mining firm to prospect and possibly mine in the country's main wine producing region, the Business Day newspaper reported on Thursday.

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Australia, March 10th 2010
Italian wines outselling French in Australian market

by Blair Speedy at The Australian

Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that Italian wines routinely outsell French wines by volume except during the December quarter, when demand for champagne to toast the holiday season more than doubles sales of French wines.

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USA, March 10th 2010
Red Bicyclette took US consumers for a ride

by Dave McIntyre at The Washington Post

We all want value in wine. For most consumers, that means we want the cheapest possible wine that tastes good. If that wine is trendy, all the better. Make it French, which carries the cachet of quality, and slap on a cutesy label that plays on Americans' cliched images of the French – say a beret-clad Frenchman on a bicycle with a basketful of baguettes, trailed by a dog with a baguette in its mouth – and you have a recipe for market success.

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USA, March 10th 2010
Californian viticulture at odds with fish conservation
by Jason Dearen for The Daily Democrat

Grape growers are angry at a new plan to limit the amount of water vineyards can pump from local rivers and streams to protect their crops from frost -- a draft regulation meant to safeguard coho salmon, a species on the brink of extinction here.
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USA, March 8th 2010
Vineyard breakthrough wins water start-up prize
by Mary Miliken at Reuters

A web application that alerts wine grape farmers when their vines are thirsty has won first place in a competition to spur entrepreneurs in the investment-starved water sector, organizers said on Monday.
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