Anthony Roberts, general manager of Lion Nathan's wine group, flatly denies that a wine division sale is on his company's agenda.
In August, 1969, a Memphis man known as Sweet Willie Wine led a group of black men on a four-day March Against Fear, from West Memphis to Little Rock, passing through the small towns of the Arkansas delta.
Shares in Allied Domecq jumped on reports that Warren Buffett , through his Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle, is spending some of its cash pile buying a stake of over 3% in the British firm, the world's second-largest wine and spirits group, which also owns the Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins food chains.
The classification came about thanks to Napoleon III, who ordered a group of wine brokers to come up with a list of the best Bordeaux in time for the Paris Exposition, a sort of national trade fair.
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This is most acutely bad news for Fosters Group, whose wine unit continues to limp along.
Recently I attended a casual meeting of writers held at a downtown wine bar, the same group that has been growing steadily for the past eight years or so.
K-J long ago dropped out of the main trade group, the Wine Institute, and Jackson grouses that if all the extended Gallo family ties are figured in, the clan accounts for most of U.S. wine production.
Petite Sirah even has its own advocacy group (does your wine?), PS I Love You.
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Spokeswoman Gladys Horiuchi said the group knows of no wine companies that plan to use the new labels.
However, this seemingly dry and arid region in southern Israel is now home to a burgeoning wine route, thanks to a group of pioneering 21st-century farmers and their use of computerized drip irrigation.
Despite allowing themselves the indulgence of wine-drinking, members of this group practised reasonable self-discipline in matters of diet, exercise and smoking.
One of my favorite partnerships was with a wine bar and a local hip-hop group.
Altria Group Inc. also owns a wine business, holds a voting stake in brewer SABMiller, and has a financial services division.
"Chenin is France's answer to German Riesling, " said Daniel Johnnes, the wine director of Daniel Boulud's restaurant group, at a recent gathering of New York sommeliers in my living room as we prepared to taste some 25 Chenins.
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Foster's, an Australian drinks group, is prepared to sell its wine business but, if no decent offer is forthcoming by May, will spin it off.
It's been the hangout for creative types since the '30s, and an old group of artists still gathers over red wine on the top floor.
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One of my girlfriends admitted recently she was afraid to tell the women in her mother's group she sometimes has a glass of wine to calm herself down because she thought they'd disapprove.
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Shops and restaurants along the river walk are filled with a new group of Nevadans who are enjoying cheese plates and wine.
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 .
It has teamed up with an industry group, the Winemakers Federation of Australia, to rewrite the national wine strategy.
One of the Douro Boys, a group of winemakers that drove this change, welcomes visitors for table wine tastings at Quinta do Crasto.
Chris Polley(ph), the owner of Jungle Vino, says his wine bar and adjoining coffee house, Java Jungle, cater to a new group of residents that live in and around downtown.
After the photo session is over, the group meets back at the cafe to discuss their photo findings over good wine and snacks.
Convincing wine-drinkers is harder than his day job as chairman of the central Europe group for United Pan-Europe Communications, an arm of John Malone's U.S-based Liberty Media.
Outside, a group of women banter with the waiter as he refills their glasses with red wine.
After receiving the subjects' responses to their questionnaires, Dr Barefoot and his colleagues divided the group into five sets, depending on whether they were drinkers of beer, wine, spirits, none in particular, or no alcohol at all.
Why not take this literally--or pretend to--and stop group tastings dead to grill the winery owner on the mineral composition of the vineyards represented in every wine?
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