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| USA, March 8th 2010 |
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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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| United Kingdom, March 8th 2010 |
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Six arrests over Australian wine scam |
from Heraldsun.com.au
Fraud squad police in London arrested six people overnight over an alleged A$5m scam in which investors were told they were buying specialist Australian wines that did not exist. Along with two earlier arrests those detained on suspicion of money laundering included two women aged 40 and 32 and men aged 30, 34, 40 and 65.
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| United Kingdom, March 8th 2010 |
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Report claims wine doesn’t make women fat |
by Laura Roberts at The Daily Telegraph
Researchers found that regular moderate female drinkers were less likely to become obese after a 13 year study of more than 19,000 women. The finding seems to contradict received dietary wisdom which has it that alcohol consumption leads to weight gain.
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| Chile, March 8th 2010 |
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Chilean wineries survey post-earthquake damage |
by John Mariani at Bloomberg.com
Last week’s massive earthquake in Chile caused widespread damage to the country’s wineries, although current supplies should help avert significant disruption in export sales. Losses may reach about $250m, or about 12.9% of 2009’s production, according to Rene Merino Blanco, president of Vinas de Chile, an association that represents more than 90% of the country’s wineries.
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| USA, March 4th 2010 |
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US wine drinkers file suit over fake Pinot Noir |
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from AFP
A California lawyer has filed a class action lawsuit against French wine producers and a US importer over the sale of millions of bottles of wine falsely passed off as Pinot Noir. “A class action complaint has been filed seeking to represent all California consumers who purchased falsely labeled wine,” said Brian Levine, an attorney with California law firm Kingsley and Kingsley.
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| Chile, March 4th 2010 |
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Chilean wine industry loses $250 million |
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from sify.com
Chile's important wine industry has calculated the sector's losses at $250 million as a result of the magnitude-8.8 earthquake that last weekend devastated several regions in the central and southern part of the country and left nearly 800 people dead.
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| USA, March 4th 2010 |
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US veterans retrained for the wine industry |
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by Guy Kovner at The Press Democrat
Iraq war veteran Shane Brannan worked a typically frenzied harvest last fall at Kosta Browne Winery, a pinot noir producer in Sebastopol. The long hours and hard work of crushing grapes suited the 33-year-old former Army sergeant just fine. “I went from push-ups to punch downs,” Brannan said, describing his transition from military exercise to winemaking labor.
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| Switzerland, March 3rd 2010 |
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Geneva gold vault now storing wine |
by Barbara Prevel at Reuters
Security cameras, codes, a double key system, and a two-tonne vault may seem a bit much for a few bottles of wine, but the owners of the fine vintages kept by Au Bonheur du Vin in the heart of Geneva sleep easy. Situated right beneath a private bank in Geneva and dedicated to people who love their wines, the vault which used to store gold for a Swiss bank is now one of the safest commercial wine cellars in Switzerland.
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| Chile, March 2nd 2010 |
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Concha y Toro suspends production |
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by Alan Clendenning for AP
Chile's biggest winemaker said Monday that is stopping production for at least a week because the mammoth earthquake hit the nation's wine-growing heartland hard, damaging wineries and the transportation network. Several of Concha y Toro's major wineries sustained serious damage in the most devastated zone of Chile, hundreds of kilometers (miles) south of the capital, Santiago, the company said in a statement.
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| Chile, March 2nd 2010 |
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Chilean wine industry damaged by quake |
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by Eric Asimov at The New York Times
As Chile tries to cope with the widespread devastation caused by one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, it may seem trivial to wonder about the country’s wine industry. But wine is an important segment of Chile’s economy, and the Maule Valley, Chile’s oldest wine region, was not far from the epicenter.
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