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Champagne shipments plummet
Champagne shipments worldwide fell by over 20% in October, according to the region’s representative association, the CIVC.
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Rosé fizz sales fall in UK
Sales of rosé Champagne have fallen in the last 12 months – despite the annual Valentine’s Day and Christmas peaks.
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Champagne boss calls for massive cut in yields
A senior Champagne boss has called for yields to be slashed for the 2009 harvest.
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Reducing yields not an option, Champagne union says
The president of the main Champagne growers’ union has said cutting yields is ‘unacceptable’.
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Champagne: radical new harvest rules
Champagne's revolutionary new rules to deciding the yield for the 2009 harvest will mean over 40% less Champagne will be produced this year.
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Gloomy forecast for Champagne sales
Champagne shipments could drop by more than 60 million bottles this year, if shipments continue falling at the current rate.
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Prices plummet in UK Champagne price war
As the Champagne price war hots up, Tesco has asked suppliers to find it 300,000 bottles it can sell for £10 each, and Bollinger can be had for a song.
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Lanson outsells everything – except chicken and chocolate
Lanson Champagne has outsold everything at Sainsbury’s – except chicken fillets and Quality Street chocolates.
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Champagne bounces back with strong end of year
Champagne has staged a surprisingly strong recovery thanks to a very good performance in the last two months of 2009, especially in the French domestic market but also in the UK.
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Sharp fall in Champagne shipments
Worldwide Champagne shipments fell by nearly 10% in 2009, according to new figures.
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Worry in Champagne as Heidsieck sheds jobs
Jobs cuts announced at Piper & Charles Heidsieck, and reorganisation at LVMH have caused disquiet in Champagne.
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Stanislas Henriot resigns from Champagne Henriot
Stanislas Henriot has resigned as president of the family’s Champagne business after over a decade in charge.
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Bernard de Nonancourt dies
Bernard de Nonancourt, founding president of the Laurent-Perrier group, has died aged 90.
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Sainsbury’s Champagne offers
Champagne offers in Sainsbury's until January 2011
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Champagne price rise expected
Champagne is expected to go up in price in the New Year as grape prices increase in the region.
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Krug to show disgorgement date
Champagne Krug is a launching a new ID code for its top non-vintage blend bearing the disgorgement date and other information.
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Champagne exports near ‘peak’ of 2007
Champagne exports last year reached their second highest volume in five years – with sales close to the peak of 2007.
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Champagne crop badly damaged by frost
Up to a third of some Champagne vineyards have been affected by heavy frosts earlier this month.
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Hailstorm savages Champagne vineyards
One of the worst hailstorms in recorded Champagne history has hit the southern Côte des Bar region, destroying this year's grape crop.
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Louis Roederer now Champagne’s biggest biodynamic producer
Louis Roederer has increased its vineyard ownership to 230 hectares following the purchase of Champagne Leclerc Briant.
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Champagne growing season ‘worst in decades’
Champagne has had the worst growing season for several decades and the prospects for the 2012 harvest look increasingly bleak.
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Ayala president Herve Augustin resigns
Herve Augustin has resigned from his post as president of Champagne Ayala and will leave the company at the end of September.
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Moët forces grape prices up
In an unprecedented move Moët and Chandon has announced it will be paying 4% more for its grapes this year compared with last.
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Three given suspended sentences for massive Champagne fraud
Three former managers of the Esterlin Champagne co-operative have been given eight-month suspended prison sentences and €2,000 fines for selling fake vintage Champagne.
