South African wine group Distell is predicting that the South African wine industry could face wine shortages within five years as total exports, which increased 12% to a record 405m litres in 2008, outstrip the ability of vineyards to supp...
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The international pricing of South African wine is a problem that many South African wine producers face. The UK is often held up as the example of where South African wines are trapped in too low a price brand, damaging not only margins bu...
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Australian brewer Foster’s, which owns wine brands Penfolds and Wolf Blass, has added its voice to what many of us already know: the recession has hit the wine market hard.
Speaking to Decanter after his company reported a five perce...
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Things are certainly happening in the Australian wine industry as producers there battle their image of primarily producing retail-destined wine.
Firstly a group of 12 families has formed Australia's First Families of Wine, representing ...
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Michael Fridjhon makes an interesting point in his wine column in Business Day and this is that some of South Africa’s best selling wines in the UK are unknown in the South African market and what does this mean for foreign visitors to ...
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