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March 7th 2013
China by numbers
By Jim Boyce for Meininger's Wine Business International

China Customs has released its wine import statistics for 2012. While the figures aren’t perfect, they do provide a snapshot of what’s happening in the Middle Kingdom. Jim Boyce got out his calculator to figure out what’s hot and what’s not.
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February 28th 2013
Burgundy not a perfect ten – but a good eleven
By Stuart George for Meininger's Wine Business International

A problematic vintage led to an early harvest, leading to uneven quality in Burgundy 2011. Yet huge global demand coupled with limited supply means that not only are prices holding steady – they’re on the rise.
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February 21st 2013
Exports lighten Spanish gloom
By Patricia Langton

With the local market deeply depressed, Spanish wine producers are forced to turn to exports for their survival. But poor harvests around the world have resulted in wine shortages, opening the way for Spain. This may put the country on a good footing for the future.
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January 10th 2013
Korea dials 911
By Cho Jungyong for Meininger's Wine Business International

The Korean government has looked at the nation’s drinking culture in alarm, and decided to encourage change, in a move that could be good for wine. The problem is that internal taxes are distorting prices and making consumers wary.
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January 10th 2013
A positive new direction for Russia
By Eugene Gerden for Meininger's Wine Business International

Long hampered by bureaucratic red tape and being lumped in with the spirits industry, Russia’s wine makers may have good news on the horzon. If new laws are adopted to make wine an agricultural product, the industry could flourish.
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December 20th 2012
Hong Kong: The gateway to China

By Felicity Carter for Meininger's Wine Business International

Since Hong Kong dropped duty on tax nearly five years ago, its government has worked tirelessly to turn it into Asia’s wine hub. We take a look at how the situation is evolving.

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November 22nd 2012
The South American wine plan
By Daniel Lopez Roca for Meininger's Wine Business International

Mercosur is the South American free trade bloc region that adopts common commercial policies. In 2009 the region began working on a wine plan, which was recently accepted by all members.
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September 28th 2012
Bordeaux looks again at Russia

By Panos Kakaviatos

After reaching record export levels in both value and quantity in 2006 and 2007, French wine exports to Russia fell in the wake of the financial crisis. But while demand has improved since then, Russian rules are still problematic.

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September 6th 2012
Indian exports follow Italian path

By Andrew Rosenbaum

Italian wines broke into the US market by following in the wake of Italian restaurants. It now looks like Indian wines may be successful in following a similar strategy, and not just in the US.

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June 26th 2012
The view of China from Guangzhou
By Susanne Bauer for Meininger's Wine Business International

Just ten years ago, ‘wine’ and ‘China’ were terms that were rarely found together. But in the past decade, things have changed completely. Every week there is now wine news from Asia, prompting many wine producers to hope that their ailing sales figures can be miraculously healed by China’s increasing thirst for wine.
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