Australia’s wine production at a five-year low

FRANKREICH (Paris) - It was for the first time French coopers to activate their lobbyists in order to achieve more transparency and protection of the prices for raw materials needed for the production of the barriques at...

CHINA (Hefei) - While the wines drunk are more and more varying, wine imports in China attained record level in 2011. At the first wine summit in China, it was reported that, past year, the Middle Kingdom imported wines...

GERMANY (Wiesbaden) - In 2011, Germany imported more wine from other countries than in the year before - but at the same time, it sold more wine abroad. Past year, a total of 1.4 billion liters of wine were imported to...

ITALY (Verona) - In the run-up to the VinItaly, Italy’s biggest and most important wine fair, taking place in Verona, latest statistics certify the Italian wine business to have attained a record in wine exports....

AMERICA (Costa Rica) - It used to be spelled Kostarika, today it is spelled Costa Rica (Spanish for “rich coast”); it is a state in central America, embedded between Nicaragua in the north, Panama in the...

AUSTRALIA (Sydney) - While wine imports to Australia more and more increased in volume, exports decreased the second year in a row already. At the same time, the sale of Australian wines on the domestic market decreased...

RUSSIA (Abrau Durso) - After the latest devastating cold spell, Russian wine producers expect from the government to take measures to support them because big parts of the vineyards are frozen. Some places have had...

NEW ZEALAND (Wellington) - First producers of the leading Ne Zealand wine-growing region Marlborough are calling for new regulations with stricter controls in order to get a grip of the production levels and increase wine...

Australia (Sydney) - It was a combination out of the strong Australian dollar (AUD) and an aggressive discounting of European wines in Australian supermarkets that led to a significant increase of wine imports to Down...

CHINA (Hong Kong) - According to the latest International Wine & Spirit Research (IWSR) study, China has now overtaken the United Kingdom as the nation with the biggest wine consumption in the world. In detail, the IWSR...