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Surprise dry spell as wine sales dip
AUSTRALIANS seem to be losing their love of wine, with sales during the past year down 4.2 per cent, new figures show. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said domestic sales of Australian wine increased by 0.1 per cent to 34.9 million litres during January.

EU, U.S. Sign Agreement on European Wine Names, Market Access
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. and the European Union signed a wine trade agreement that could one day limit the use of European names such as port, sherry and champagne on some products made in the U.S.

Case Of Six Burgundy Wines Sells For $14,200 Per Bottle
WNBC, NY - Mar 3, 2006NEW YORK -- The six-pack fetched more than $170,375 at auction -- a six-magnum case of 1985 French Burgundy, that is. All 119 lots ...

Wines with a Latino touch
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 21 hours agoLawyers, high-tech professionals, teachers, magazine editors and a university president gathered one recent evening in San Jose to sample high-end wines at the ...

Wine: Rose wines deserve a second chance
The Courier-Journal, IN - Mar 7, 2006... any more. Be advised: Beautiful, dry rose wines exist. In ... white zinfandel. These rose wines have lots of body and substance. They ...

Enthusiasm and new vines put fizz in English wines
Washington Post, United States - Feb 23, 2006... that at least one champagne house has moved across the channel from France to invest in an English vineyard and will soon be producing sparkling wines it hopes ...

The Second Asian Wine Quality Competition to Be Held in China
Wines-Info.Com, China - Mar 2, 2006The Asian Wine Quality Competition (AWQC) will be held by the Science and Technology Development Centre of Wine and Viticulture in Asia, OIV( known as the ...