Recent Posts Tagged With 'wineries'

• Follow-up: 2009 grape purchases by Catalan wineries

  Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 02:34 in wineries, cava

  Further news on expected grape purchases by the three leading winery groups in Catalunya:Of the big three, only Codorníu has committed to supporting local grape growers this year by holding prices at 2008 and annoucing intentions to buy 10% this yea...

• 50% drop in 2009 grape purchases forecasted for Catalan wineries

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 01:30 in torres, wineries, cava

  The economic crisis and excess stock is setting the scene for a drastic drop in grape purchases this year among Catalan wineries. In La Vanguardia (July 15, '09) Ramon Francàs reported that many in the market expect purchases could be down by 50% th...

• Spanish kosher wines

  Posted on Friday May 22nd, 2009 at 05:39 in wineries

  Recently the Chicago Tribune had a feature on Spanish kosher wines, looking at three wineries producing them. The Capçanes cooperative of the Monsant D.O. began producing Flor de Primavera / Paraj Ha'abib in 1995, at the request of the Jewish ...

• Wineries as investments: the 2009 shake-out

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 08:13 in wineries

  There was an interesting article in Sunday’s La Vanguardia by Ramon Francàs that looked at difficulties faced by wineries headed by celebrities. The trend of stars getting into the wine business was all the rage prior to the latest financial downt...

• Codorníu 2008 results: US sales up 135%

  Posted on Monday February 23rd, 2009 at 02:57 in wineries, cava

  The purchase by leading cava and wine group Codorníu of US distributor A.V. Brands has shown immediate benefits; group sales, which includes imports to the US and those of Artesa, Codorníu's Napa Valley winery, rose in 2008 to 35.2 million euros, u...

• Raventós i Blanc aims to double export sales

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 04:10 in wineries, export data and trends

  Article in yesterday's La Vanguardia by Ramon Francàs highlighting the plan by Raventós i Blanc winery to dedicate 40% of their production of wines and cavas to export markets by 2014. Six years ago the percentage was just 5%. Last year it reached ...

• Cava for the crisis?

  Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 09:00 in wineries, cava

  Report in El Pais on Monday 1/12 notes that Cava production remains high despite negative forcast for holiday party spending. The article quotes a source from Cava giant Freixenet as saying production levels for cava are as high as ever and hinting t...

• No repeat for Freixenet's Scorsese ad

  Posted on Thursday October 30th, 2008 at 05:25 in Marketing, wineries, cava

  Last year Cava giant Freixenet made a big splash by hiring Martin Scorsese to direct an ad that garnered a lot of attention via Internet views (over one million hits according to one Spanish economic newpaper, and a random search via YouTube shows so...

• D.O. Emporda - the windy wine region

  Posted on Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at 03:02 in events, wineries, d.o.'s and regions

  Last night the D.O. Empordà held a promotional event in Barcelona. The small and hilly Empordà region is tucked into the northeast corner of Spain and is home to about 40 wineries. One of the signature features there are the Tramuntana winds that c...

• The Widow Clicquot, story of an amazing entrepreneur

  Posted on Tuesday October 21st, 2008 at 02:28 in Marketing, wineries

  Being released next week is an interesting book about Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, more famously known as Vueve Clicquot, the widow who created by hardwork, dedication and a good deal of risk-taking one of the most famous brands of Champagne at a...

• Women winemakers: Bodega J. Miquel Jané

  Posted on Tuesday July 15th, 2008 at 08:59 in wineries

  In May I had written about the National Womens Wine Competition and the overall white winner from Spain. Recently I heard from another awardee from this competition, Bernadetta Miquel, of Catalan winery J. Miquel Jané. This winery won a double gold ...

• Indigenous grapes of Catalunya and the quest for individuality

  Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 05:43 in torres, wineries, grape varieties

  In the continuing quest of winemakers to make wines that are distinctive from all the rest, bodegas here in Catalunya have been making greater efforts to restore indigenous grape varieties to commercial use. The thinking is that if the raw material i...

• Web 2.0 for wineries: enhancing interaction and boosting sales

  Posted on Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 at 06:57 in wineries

  The interactive web, or the web 2.0, in which the consumers publish their views, questions and opinions for the entire world to see, offer wine marketers more capabilities for communicating on-line with wine drinkers. On-line communication, in itself...

• White tempranillo: mutation or technique?

  Posted on Tuesday May 27th, 2008 at 02:28 in wineries, grape varieties

  I had recently seen a press release for the Pago del Vicario winery on the release of their second vintage of a White Tempranillo wine. This press release brought to mind the news last year from La Rioja D.O.C. that one of the varieties now approved...

• Mystery solved: Bianca 2006 the best white wine made by a female enologist comes from Bodegas Nilo

  Posted on Monday May 19th, 2008 at 05:14 in wineries

  In answer to my post of last Thursday (Women's Wine Competition names Bianca 2006 of Spain top white wine, but who made it?), I received an e-mail from Bodegas Nilo co-owner Maria Jose Lopez.She and husband Juan Carlos Nieto (a second generation viti...

• Women's Wine Competition names Bianca 2006 of Spain top white wine, but who made it?

  Posted on Thursday May 15th, 2008 at 09:50 in wineries

  The (U.S.) National Women's Wine Competition recently announced the winning wines for 2008. The women-only judging panel gave awards for all wines (even those made by men!) and a special section of awards for wines made by female winemakers.Taking th...