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RUTHERFORD, California (CNN) -- It's the middle of harvest in California's wine country, a busy time for wine makers.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg says South Africa's wine industry is trying to recover from its chequered past.
But top wine producers say it will take more than one year of reduced output to drain Australia's wine lake.
The owner of Gale's Wine Bar in Llangollen Richard Gale said he would not be taking part in the scheme.
Anthony Roberts, general manager of Lion Nathan's wine group, flatly denies that a wine division sale is on his company's agenda.
Great Pinot Gris is, in that sense, very much a purist's wine.
Although Mr. Lombardo's wine list features mostly current vintages, I've found that many lists feature half-bottles that are a little too old.
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The Italian pavilion, for example, will allow visitors to take simulated tours of Italy's wine country while sitting on a Vespa motorcycle.
It says the publishing chief executives held quarterly gatherings at such Manhattan restaurants as Alto and the Chef's Wine Cellar private room in Picholine.
Mr. Hinde insists Yao Family Wines isn't a short-lived bid to capitalize on China's wine boom and the star's celebrity before either of them wane.
Wines made in the Okanagan - British Columbia's wine region - include those produced by Blasted Church, Dirty Laundry, Forbidden Fruit and, appropriately, Lotus Land wineries.
On either side of Santa Rosa (metro population in 2000: 459, 000) sits a substantial pocket of tech industry and the better part of America's wine industry.
China's wine production is relatively small but growing--730 million liters in 2005 compared with 2, 546 million liters for the U.S. and 898 million liters for Germany.
Bernard Arnault, the chairman of France's luxury-goods group LVMH , proposed merging his company's wine and spirits business with those of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan .
They've been making amazing spirits for 300 years... there's a certain attention to detail that the French have with all of their products, whether it's wine or spirits.
Rosie spent life in a custom ranch house in California's wine country and exercised in an airy, sunlit building on an earthen floor covered with clean hulls of rice.
For the next 10 years she came up against big names in Kenya's wine industry, but in 2007, taxes imposed on alcohol manufacturing made it difficult to keep prices low.
However, other wine growers around the world produce their own variants -- often available at cheaper prices -- which have placed the Champagne region's wine houses under increasing pressure in recent years.
And unlike Chardonnay, fine Pinot Gris is not "a winemaker's wine" that can make up with cellar cosmetics (like aging in charred oak barrels and secondary fermentations) what it lacks coming in from the vineyard.
If the status quo is maintained, by 2011 around 15% of the EU's wine output--currently around 180 million hectoliters (4.8 billion gallons) a year--will be destined for distilleries, perhaps ending up in very happy Volvos, Fiats and Peugeots.
"It has become an expensive hobby, but there is so much potential in Texas wines especially in this area, " said Pruitt, who grew up in near California's wine-rich Santa Ynez Valley and still sources much of his grape juice from there.
One of the refreshing things about the Australian approach to wine has been the willingness of the country's wine makers to puncture some of the snobberies and myths that surround the world of wine in Europe, and increasingly California.
Take the 70-employee furniture wholesaler in California that recently got threatened with a suit when a retail customer who purchased one of the company's wine racks claimed that her son found a dead cat in the shipping container and suffered psychological trauma.
It is so potent that a tablespoon of it could taint an entire year's wine production in the United States, according to Christian Butzke, a former oenologist at the University of California, Davis, and now director of winemaking at Sakonnet Vineyards in Little Compton, Rhode Island.
Just as Jackson has his beefs with jug wine, which has failed to give U.S. wine a good name, so he quarrels with the conceits of the boutique vintners who shrink from scale.
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