Wed, 20/04/2011 - 15:42 | by Daniela Valda
04/2011
Uncorking the U.S. Market
By Julian DowlingConcha y Toro’s purchase of Fetzer Vineyards from alcoholic beverages giant Brown-Forman is the first major investment by a South American winery in the U.S., and gives the company a foothold in a large, thirsty market.
Americans are drinking more wine. In fact, more wine is now consumed in the U.S. than in any other country including France – about 330 million 9-liter cases in 2010 worth some US$30 billion. But there is still plenty of room for that volume to grow - per capita wine consumption in the U.S.
Fri, 11/06/2010 - 09:45 | by Daniela Valda
06/2010
Grapes of Wrath:
The Wine Industry Recovers
By Julian DowlingChile’s wineries have mopped up the spilt wine and for most it’s back to business as usual after the earthquake, but winemakers will have to work hard to maintain sales growth amid rising prices and increasing competition.
Mother Nature’s fury was unleashed on Chilean wineries in the early morning of February 27 as the powerful earthquake ripped open stainless steel tanks full of fermenting grapes, ruptured barrels and smashed bottles in the country’s main wine producing regions.
“Our storage tanks collapsed and wine went everywhere, it was chaos,” recalls José Miguel Viu, Managing Director of the family-run Viu Manent vineyard in the Colchagua Valley, some 150km south of Santiago.
Like other vineyards in Colch
Fri, 11/06/2010 - 09:41 | by Daniela Valda
06/2010
Grapes of Wrath:
The Wine Industry Recovers
By Julian DowlingChile’s wineries have mopped up the spilt wine and for most it’s back to business as usual after the earthquake, but winemakers will have to work hard to maintain sales growth amid rising prices and increasing competition.
Mother Nature’s fury was unleashed on Chilean wineries in the early morning of February 27 as the powerful earthquake ripped open stainless steel tanks full of fermenting grapes, ruptured barrels and smashed bottles in the country’s main wine producing regions.
“Our storage tanks collapsed and wine went everywhere, it was chaos,” recalls José Miguel Viu, Managing Director of the family-run Viu Manent vineyard in the Colchagua Valley, some 150km south of Santiago.
Like other vineyards in Colch
