Bernard Magrez purchases three more Bordeaux wine growing estates

ITALY (Palermo) - So far, the European Union has provided over 1 billion euro for the Italian “Mafia project” for the recultivation of a vineyard that used to be controlled by the Mafia....

AUSTRALIA (Melbourne) - In order to reduce the surplus of Australian wines, the wine industry is calling for the wine equalization tax to be abolished. The reason: The latter is making everything...

FRANCE (Paris) - The Constitutional Council in Paris has decided: It is permissible the labor unions of the appellations or the producers’ organization representing an appellation to impose a fee...

BELGIUM (Brussels) - Starting with this year's harvest, there will now officially be "ecological wine". This will be the first time that the whole production - from the grape to the fermentation...

FRANCE (Bordeaux) - Bernard Magrez, owner of Château Pape Clément and Château La Tour Carnet, has extended his portfolio of real estates by purchasing three more estates. This is the 15 hectares...

RUSSIA (Abrau-Durso) - Russia's oldest and renowned bubbly producer Abrau-Durso*, named after the rivers Abrau and Durso, is introducing a new line of still wines. Abrau-Durso was founded in 1870...

FRANCE(Paris) - According to analysts, thanks to the recent involvement of LVMH with Hermès, combined with a possible expansion of the latter, potential buyers may concentrate on buying assets through...

GERMANY (Würzburg) - Actually, Oskar Noppenberger, long-time director of the successful vintagers association Divino in Nordheim, was perfectly sure that after his retirement from the cooperative in...

USA (Los Angeles) - According to a recent study, red wine has a positive effect on a hormone that can cause breast cancer. This study was initiated by the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and...

FRANCE (Terminiers) - While experimenting in his laboratory, a French biologist accidentally invented a wine made from tea leaves, which has sold more than a thousand times already. Frédéric Pottecher...

PORTUGAL (Mozelos) - It's time for cork harvesting in the Montado woods in the region Alentejo in Portugal - with great hopes this year. Looking back at the last decade, cork companies remember the...

UK (London) - Decanter, one of the world's most renowned wine magazine, was searching for the most influential men in the wine business of 2011 and with its so-called "Power List Top 50", published...