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Germany's tiny 2025 vintage, Oregon wildfire payout, Ram's Gate Winery goes ROC
Plus a full list of Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) estates around the world. Also, a $99-million wine Ponzi scheme and an initiative to recognise fortified-wine production as Intangible Cultural Heritage...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
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Wine news in 5
Napa's new AVA, a massive wine-fraud bust, UK harvest woes, hidden sugar in 'dry' wine
Plus musings on Hong Kong’s liquor-duty slashing as incentive to revive its nightlife. Above, Bremer Family Winery, one of the wineries within California's new Crystal Springs of Napa Valley AVA...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
• 1 min read
Wine news in 5
US dietary guidelines for alcohol update, new red Alsace Grand Cru, Champagne challenges
Plus a brazen wine fraud case, the bankruptcy of a major California company and potential sale of Gusbourne in England, the wrap-up of Ontario’s LCBO strike and more damaging weather...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
• 1 min read
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Lawyer Nick Bartman reports that one big problem in the burgeoning Chinese wine market is the prevalence of liquids being...
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This week we continue our series showcasing some of lawyer Nick Bartman's finds during a five-week tour of China. The...
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Yesterday in Fakes in China 1 – Lafite of course we saw some instances of bottles of wine on sale...
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27 Mar 2018 Joel Stephens from Comparitech wrote in to let us know that they now have a fraud prevention...
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I am told that there is another major incident in the American fine wine market involving a very considerable consignment...
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14 Apr – Aggrieved customers of the Bordeaux Wine Trading Company have formed an action group. Details may be accessed...
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As a follow up to my long article on wine fraud, you may be interested to know about Christie’s April...
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