6/10/2009: Australian Vintage looks beyond glut

Source: News.com.au

IN hindsight, Australian Vintage chief executive Dane Hudson stepped into the wine industry from a career in fast food at the worst possible time...

6/10/2009: Wine sales lift Hardy owner

Source: Brisbanetimes.com.au

THE US-based Constellation Brands, which owns Australia's second-largest wine business, Hardy Wine Company, has swung back into profitability and reaffirmed its full-year earnings guidance after a $US100 million ($113.8 million) profit for the 2010 second quarter...

6/10/2009: 2009 harvest is shaping up to be memorable

Source: Sfgate.com

Because grape growers tend to be an anxious lot, let's get the doom scenarios out of the way first...

6/10/2009: Hong Kong Now World’s #1 Wine Auction Market, Surpassing London & New York

Source: Chinaluxculturebiz.wordpress.com

Sotheby’s Fine Wine Auctions Sell $8 Million Over The Weekend As Chinese Collectors Dominate In Hong Kong...

2/10/2009: Support needed for wine industry code of conduct

Source: Winebiz.com.au

Winemakers are being urged to sign their industry’s new voluntary Code of Conduct before the next vintage...

2/10/2009: Blending rule changes to save disaster-hit wineries in Australia

Source: Decanter.com

A lifeline could soon be available for South Australian wine businesses threatened by natural and other disasters...

2/10/2009: Constellation 2Q results top view; stabilization seen

Source: Online.wsj.com

Constellation Brands Inc. (STZ) reversed a prior-year loss in its fiscal second quarter caused by restructuring charges, as cost cutting and debt-reduction efforts also helped the bottom line...

1/10/2009: 'Fluke' saves cache of rare wines

Source: Decanter.com

A cache of 40 exceptional wines including a Jeroboam of 1949 Latour have come onto the market - and it was only by chance that they weren't ruined...

1/10/2009: UK wine industry gets £1.6m boost

Source: Decanter.com

The UK wine industry is to receive £1.6m to address the lack of winemakers trained to deal with the unpredictable British weather and terroir conditions...

1/10/2009: China to be eighth largest wine consumer

Source: Hktdc.com

The International Wine and Spirit Record (IWSR), an internationally-renowned wine and spirit research and consultancy firm, expects China to consume some 1.1 billion bottles of wine per year by 2011...