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WINE BUFFS SAY CHEERS TO DOWNTURN AS PRICES STALL AT LAST

PARIS (AFP) - James Bond might have cause for concern but most other fans of fine French wine can relax: your habit should not become significantly more expensive over the coming year. After years in which lovers of Burgundy, Bordeaux [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

The Wine Buff – Quality Wines at Affordable Prices

Wine by any label is still good wine. Nothing could be farther from the truth as this. Anyone who has ever tasted honest to goodness quality wine would know so. While most people would claim knowledge of wine, wine tasting, and wine [...]

Posted On : Sep, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Wine Prices Inch Back Up

Wine Prices Inch Back UpAfter years of enjoying discounts on fine wines, consumers are finding prices have begun to inch back up. They can partly blame themselves. Feeling slightly more confident about the economy, wine drinkers who tr [...]

Posted On : Aug, 29 2012 | Comments : 0

European wine prices plunge

A SHIFT in the tastes of Australian drinkers has wine producers turning red with anger and white with fear. The strong Australian dollar, coupled with the aggressive tactics of supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, has caused a plunge [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Wine lovers to profit from falling prices

Think of wine critic Robert Parker as the EF Hutton of fermented grapes. When he talks, oenophiles listen. So when Parker, publisher of the Wine Advocate, said recently that the world is entering the 'Age of the Buyer' - a prolong [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Illegal Sale of Rice Wine Thrives in Chinese Enclaves

The restaurant looks like so many others in the roiling heart of Chinatown, in Lower Manhattan: a garish sign in Chinese and English, slapdash photos of featured dishes taped to the windows, and extended Chinese families crowding around t [...]

Posted On : Jul, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Lafite in Hong Kong: The price of provenance

After yesterday's drama of sky high prices at the Sotheby's Hong Kong auction, today's developments began to add some context to the numbers. Firstly, a reminder of how things looked overnight. This table shows the difference [...]

Posted On : Nov, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Lafite prices spiral at record Sotheby's Hong Kong auction

Asian bidders paid stratospheric prices for prized bottles sent directly from Château Lafite Rothschild's cellars in a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong today. Three bottles of 1869 Lafite Rothschild became the world&rsq [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Auction sobers view on wine price

The 139 buyers spent a total of R3.8-million, 25% less than last year, on the 39 wines on offer. Spread over 19 types and styles, this year's auction, held at Spier Wine Estate, offered a record 13 white wines. The total volume under [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Wine prices might be cut

Wineries exporting to Britain may have to cut prices due to the weakening pound sending the kiwi dollar to its strongest levels in 30 years. Britain is New Zealand's second-biggest wine export market by value and biggest-e [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Record prices for wine at Hongkong auction

A wine auction organized by Sotheby in Hong Kong on Saturday exceeded all expectations, reports Bloomberg. Rich wine lovers bid for ten hours on 800 lots and eventually spent HK$52.9 million (4.81 million euros), against Sotheby’s [...]

Posted On : Jan, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Wine prices cut to 'force out more growers'

Results from 2009's wine grape crush survey show production levels remained steady but the value of the harvest tumbled by 30 per cent. The Murray Valley Winegrowers' chief executive, Mike Stone, says wineries are forecasting another 30 per [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

A toast to cheaper B.C. wine prices

The construction sector may be taking the brunt of the economic storm but another B.C. industry -- one that's made our province famous -- is also being battered. The amount of wine being consumed around the world is down, and hard times in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Wine prices go into the red

The latest indication that the global economic slowdown is hitting the spending power of even the most wealthy, certain fine wine prices have declined by a quarter since the summer. Yet before some of us think of sniffing out a potent [...]