From Sigi Hiss, at 08. July 2010 09:03
by Rebecca Gibb – A leading Madiran producer is launching the region’s first-ever en primeur campaign in the UK. Following the excellent 2009 vintage in south-west France, producer Alain Brumont is looking to profit from the success of the high profile Bordeaux en primeur campaign.
Its top wines have been sold en primeur in France since 1985 and it estimates it will sell around 60% of its production as futures this year. However, the producer stresses its wines are not aimed at investors.
Jean Baptiste, export manager at Alain Brumont told decanter.com: ‘Our wines are purely for enjoyment. We don’t play the speculation game; we make wine for drinking.’ ‘Consumers are really turning to our wines because we are seen as value for money,’ he added. Brumont will release his top red cuvées from Châteaux Bouscassé and Montus as part of this en primeur campaign. The wines are also sold in the US en primeur.
From Marcel Merz, at 08. July 2010 09:03
From Marcel Merz, at 08. July 2010 09:00
by Graham Tearse - Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte is to begin exporting wines by sailing ship. The 106 year-old British ketch Bessie Ellen will set sail from Bordeaux for Montreal on July 21, laden with 20,000 bottles of Smith Haut Lafitte.
The ship will also carry bottles from Château de Cayx (the Cahors domain owned by the Danish royal family) and Borie de Maurel (Languedoc).
The move was introduced in an effort to cut the chateau's carbon footprint.
'It is a marriage of tradition and modernity,' owner Daniel Cathiard told decanter.com.'
From Alexandra Flemming, at 08. July 2010 08:53
by Adam Lechmere - Douglas Murray, one of the founders of Chile's Viña Montes,
has died aged 68 after a long struggle with cancer. The Chilean wine journal Diario del Vino said this morning, 'Chilean viticulture is in mourning', summing up feelings about the loss of one of the best-loved figures in the country's wine industry.
In 35 years in the wine industry Murray (pictured, on right, with Aurelio Montes this year) held many different posts, including the first chairman of Wines of Chile in London. His biography on the Montes
From Alexandra Flemming, at 08. July 2010 08:50
by Howard G Goldberg in New York – Stanley A (Bill) Wagner, a major pioneering Finger Lakes vintner, died on 26 June aged 83. Wagner founded Wagner Vineyards, on Seneca Lake, in 1979, three years after seminal state legislation provided incentives for creating New York’s modern wine industry. The estate’s 250 acres contain every category of grape that traces New York’s long wine history, starting with winter-hardy native fruit, transitioning through laboratory crossings and culminating in the so-called vinifera revolution.
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