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• Wine Stories: Mexico’s Wine Renaissance

  09-01-2017 01:19
  The Mexican wine industry is simultaneously the birthplace of North American wine and its newest frontier. It boasts the oldest winery in the New World and it is one of the largest growers of grapes in the Americas, but paradoxically makes only a tiny 20 million liters of wine a year. By comparison, the United States produces three billion liters. Mexico has over 100,000 acres of vineyards, but most of these are devoted to brandy production. Mexico, incidentally, is the third largest producer of
  
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• What makes a great wine festival?

  09-01-2017 01:19
  It was intended as a celebration of biodynamic wines; those otherworldly in scope, made according to lunar rhythms and something aligned with what practitioners like to call “the cosmos”. The man and his wife had booked into all four sessions on the day of the Return To Terroir biodynamic wine tasting, a regular marquee event of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. By the third session, it was clear he was not going to see a fourth. Too much wine had been consumed and he was asked t
  
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• The Wine Stories That Will Shape 2017

  09-01-2017 01:19
  This coming era is going to be crazy and sometimes painful. I’m talking politics, but our cultural choices, including wine, are at an inflection point, too. Drinking is often a political act, even when we don’t intend it to be, and today we face more complexity than ever: How natural is natural wine? What farming is actually sustainable, and what’s just lip service? Am I giving my money to a small producer or to a big company? Are we elevating once-obscure places, or just shovi
  
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• New head winemaker at La Crema winery

  09-01-2017 01:19
  La Crema winery in Windsor, which was purchased by Santa-Rosa’s Jackson Family Wines in 1993, has announced the promotion of Craig McAllister to the position of head winemaker. McAllister joined La Crema as the harvest enologist in 2007. Announcing the move, the winery stated McAllister helped to further develop La Crema’s collection of single vineyard chardonnay and pinot noir wines in his most recent post as associate winemaker. McAllister has also made wine for Wild Ridge, craftin
  
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• FTA boosting exports to Korea

  09-01-2017 01:19
  The start of 2017 saw two thirds of New Zealand’s exports to Korea become duty free, up from 46% in 2016. Trade Minister Todd McClay says more local food businesses looking to expand into Korea will benefit from the latest round of tariff reductions under the New Zealand-Korea Free Trade Agreement, signed December 2015. New Zealand has experienced strong results particularly in the food and beverage sector where exports to Korea have increased by over 16%. While New Zealand is ranked as Ko
  
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• Branching out secures future in wine industry

  09-01-2017 01:19
  The Smibert family at Coonawarra can see a positive future in the wine industry and are making their own luck. After buying a vineyard in the famous South East wine region a decade ago, the family plugged away as grape growers and sold their product to wine companies. Disenchanted with grape prices and quality judgments made by buyers, Brian said the family decided to embark on a new path four years ago. Brian and Jennifer’s son Angus, who holds an international business degree, came up wi
  
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• Virtual vineyard gate aims to keep grape pests out

  09-01-2017 01:19
  Software initially developed to safeguard the Canadian poultry industry is being trialled by Australian wineries to help keep pests and diseases out of premium vineyards. The vineyard cyber monitoring system known as Project Boundary Rider has been designed by Canadian company Be Seen Be Safe to keep South Australia’s $1.78 billion wine industry free of devastating pests and diseases such as phylloxera and Pearce’s disease. Vinehealth Australia, based in South Australia’s capit
  
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• Australian Biodynamic Wines Paxton Comes to Guangzhou

  09-01-2017 01:19
  Paxton, an Australian biodynamic wine company, has officially launched in Guangzhou. Established in 1979, Paxton is a family owned McLaren Vale wine company. Founder and owner, David Paxton is one of Australia’s most highly respected viticulturists – a reputation built on managing and growing wine grapes of exceptional quality for over 37 years. In 2004, David Paxton, under the inspiration of Rufolf Steiner’s philosophies, made the decision to convert the estate to organic and
  
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