Hospices de Beaune auction achieves record €8m sales
Burgundy’s Hospices de Beaune auction has seen sales top €8m, a record total for the third year in a row, but negociants warned the result was 'troubling' for the market.
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Producer profile: Domaine des Lambrays
The upward trajectory of this estate looks set to continue as it becomes the Burgundian jewel in LVMH's luxury portfolio. Panos Kakaviatos charts its history and looks ahead to the future...
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Hospices de Beaune winemaker Roland Masse to retire
The winemaker and manager of Domaine des Hospices de Beaune in Burgundy, Roland Masse, is set to retire after the 2014 vintage.
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Producer profile: Château Calon-Ségur
It was once one of the most publicity-shy estates in Bordeaux, but today the new owners of this St-Estèphe third growth are laying out the welcome mat. But has this changed the wine?
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Investment portfolios need top claret to out-perform gold, says study
An analysis of investing in French wine by researchers from the Montpellier Business School has found that gold is a more profitable investment than wine in general, unless your portfolios contains top Bordeaux estates.
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Burgundy producers request government aid as 3,000 hectares damaged
Producers across Burgundy have asked government officials for help in the form of tax relief, subsidies and funding to increase anti-hail measures, following a devastating hailstorm on Saturday.
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Hailstorm decimates vines across Burgundy
Burgundy winemakers have reported widespread damage to the 2014 harvest after a five minute hailstorm destroyed vines across the region on Saturday afternoon.
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Germany's Pinot Noir 'godfather' Bernhard Huber dies
Wine producer Bernhard Huber, best known as the German godfather of Pinot Noir, has died aged 55.
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Hungary abolishes three and four Puttonyos Tokaji grades
Hungary's Tokaji trade council has abolished the two lower grades of the country's most famous wine, leaving some merchants concerned about the effect on consumers.
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Alsace: the new generation
Fresh-thinking young winemakers could be the shot in the arm that Alsace needs, as they focus more than ever on the terroir-driven, dry styles that today’s wine lovers want. Panos Kakaviatos reports.
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Pommard producers step up grand cru promotion push
Producers in three premier cru areas of Pommard have stepped up their quest to achieve grand cru status by submitting a 150-page support dossier to the local INAO office.
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Hospices de Beaune auction sales highest on record
This year's Hospices de Beaune auction has achieved a record sales total, raising over EUR6.3m, despite the smallest volume of wine on sale for three decades.
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Tough harvest hits Hospices de Beaune 2013 auction
This year's Hospices de Beaune auction will be the smallest for three decades, following a Burgundy 2013 harvest dogged by poor weather earlier in the year.
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New report slams 12 US states for restricting access to wines
Wine drinkers across America are being hampered by outdated state wine laws, which vary in severity depending on where a person lives, new research claims.
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Hail hits southern Alsace vineyards
Hailstorms continue to batter French vineyards, this time in the heart of Alsatian wine country, with up to 60% damages reported in parts of Southern Alsace.
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Jean Claude Berrouet consulting at Lafon Rochet
Jean Claude Berrouet – best known for his 44 years as director of Petrus in Pomerol – has been consulting at Chateau Lafon Rochet since the 2012 vintage, but the chateau made no announcement until now.
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Burgundy's Les Saint Georges applies for promotion to Grand Cru
A group of vintners from Burgundy's renowned Nuit Saint Georges appellation is applying to have its Les Saint Georges vineyard promoted from premier cru to grand cru status.
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Irish government plans wine sell-off
Days after the Elysee Palace wine auction in Paris, the Irish government plans to sell off some of its wines.
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Collio coins new name for Tokaji - 'Jakot'
Italian and Slovenian wine authorities in the Collio wine region have come up with a new name for their wine – Jakot – to distinguish it from Tokaji.
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Chateau Loudenne to be sold to Chinese Baijiu group
Chinese Baijiu group Moutai will purchase cru bourgeois property Chateau Loudenne, according to reports.
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Bordeaux 2012: Nearly 6000 visitors at En Primeur say official figures
According to official figures, 5,800 people visited Bordeaux for En Primeur week to taste the 2012 vintage from barrel: a 7% increase on last year’s tasting of the 2011 vintage.
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Bordeaux 2012: Chateau Raymond Lafon not to release 2012
Chateau Raymond Lafon has joined Chateau d’Yquem and Chateau Rieussec in announcing that it will not make a 2012 vintage wine.
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Rolland vows to take Figeac into St Emilion premier league
International consultant Michel Rolland has signed a contract to consult at Château Figeac – with the stated aim of promotion from premier grand cru classé “B” to the coveted “A” status.
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€300k of Champagne stolen in Jacques Selosse raid
More than three and a half thousand bottles of Champagne bottles worth €300,000 have been stolen from acclaimed grower Jacques Selosse in a heist described as 'well-organised'.
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Top 2010 Bordeaux still selling 'slowly' say US merchants
Bordeaux 2010 remains too expensive as the top-end wines continue to sell very slowly, American merchants say.
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200 Beaujolais properties 'to close' says French media
Up to 200 Beaujolais producers may have to close down because of the exceptionally low-yielding harvest last year.
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Bulk wine imports to US 'soar' in 2012
Bulk wine imports more than doubled in the United States this year because of competitive pricing and changing consumer attitudes, according to a new survey from Silicon Valley Bank.
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New UGC president Olivier Bernard calls for closer cooperation between chateaux and negotiants
Olivier Bernard, owner of the renowned Graves property Domaine de Chevalier, was unanimously voted today as president of high-end Bordeaux’s top marketing arm, the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux (UGC).
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French wine consumption at 30-year low
The French are drinking less wine on a regular basis than ever before, a new survey has found.
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Hospices critics hail 'impressive' Burgundy 2012
Experts who tasted the 43 wines from the recently harvested 2012 vintage – later auctioned at the Hospices de Beaune – were surprised at the high quality of the wines, in spite of bad weather conditions that lead to one of the smallest harvests ever.
