The wine market in China has undergone significant changes in recent years, thanks to rapid growth. Market expansion is driven by a growing middle class with rising incomes and growing knowledge of wine recognized as a symbol of status and sophistication. Recent developments have hinted at potential changes in China's wine industry as the market responds to global economic pressures and the lifting of strict pandemic restrictions. Industry observers are optimistic, anticipating a recovery in wine consumption as the Chinese economy stabilizes and continues to grow. The reduction in anti-dumping tariffs has opened the door to trade relations that could reshape the competitive landscape for wine imports in China.
The future of China's wine market looms large for domestic producers and wine importers. China represents the second largest turnover in the world in the wine sector. The Chinese wine market presents a mix of growth and rapidly evolving consumer trends, characterized by a sophisticated population more
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The Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc is finalizing the new classification, which will be announced before March 1, 2025. This classification has three levels:
Cru Bourgeois
Cru Bourgeois Supérieur
Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel
The rigorous specifications aim to guarantee the quality of the wine. Terre de Vins noted this quality during tastings of the 2023 primeurs, a vintage which could be classified Cru Bourgeois once the 2025 classification is promulgated. Once eligibility is validated, the candidate must prove that they have obtained level 2 environmental certification from the Ministry of Agriculture.
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Two luxury hotels, the Constance Prince Maurice and the Constance Belle Mare Plage, both located on the east coast of Mauritius, which offer the largest and most beautiful wine cellars in the Indian Ocean. The Blue Penny Cellar restaurant offers food and wine pairings with a 35,000-bottle cellar at Constance Belle Mare Plage. As for the Hotel Constance Prince Maurice, it offers a wine cellar with 25,000 bottles of wine and has a tasting room. You can taste Tenuta San Guido, Petrus and Romanée Conti. Every year the cellars of Constance Prince Maurice and Constance Belle Plage offer meetings such as Paulée de Meursault, which brings together internationally renowned chefs with the greatest sommeliers. The Group's Head Sommelier Mr Jerome Faure, travels the world to select exceptional wines. Tel: +230-402-3636
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In a recently released report the US wine industry shows that total dollar sales increased in 2023 with a steady increase since 2018. There are more than 11,600 wineries operating in the United States and half of the producers had reached their sales targets by 2023. Wine shipment volume declined in 2023, but dollar sales increased from previous years, reaching USD 107 billion. In 2018, sales in the USA represented a turnover of 73 billion USD, an increase of 45% until 2023. American consumers continue to drink wine in moderation while increasing consumption.
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Former rower Julien Després, a former sports rower, converted to oenology and now works in viticulture, a passion for him. He has just planted more than 10,000 vines and will produce a first crémant-type wine from the Basque Country. We wish him much success!
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Since 1945, Chateau Mouton Rothschild has collaborated with different artists for its Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine labels. The castle has a habit of selecting only eminent artists from the world of art and known worldwide. The choice of the artist is made within the Rothschild family between Philippe Sereys de Rothschild, Camille Sereys and Julien de Beaumarchais de Rothschild. At the time it was Baron Philippe who chose the painters from among his circle of friends, such as Jean Hugo, Léonor Fini and Jean Cocteau. In 1955 Georges Braque agreed to illustrate the vintage, among the most famous artists we can also cite: Dalì, César, Miró, Chagall, Picasso, Warhol, Soulages, Bacon, Balthus, Tàpies, Jeff Koons, Peter Doig and Chiharu Shiota , a collection of labels by vintage for a total of 75 vintages, to which a new work is added each year.Vintage 2021 - Chiharu Shiota
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The start of the Bordeaux 2023 primeur campaign is imminent. Following our week of visits to Bordeaux, we are pleased to share with you our first impressions and share with you the pleasure we had tasting these 2023 primeurs. It is a heterogeneous vintage, fresh, intense and structured, compared to the powerful and rich 2022. The technical positions taken by the properties, both in the vineyard and in the cellar, further mark this homogeneity in the Bordeaux territory. The 2023 vintage presents ripe wines overall, but can sometimes lack depth, which can let the tannins mark the wines somewhat. It is a very expressive vintage which lets the terroir express itself, not comparable to the very sunny vintages of 2022, 2020 or 2018 which reveal more power and rich, generous aromas, with real expressions of the terroir. With most of the properties and during the discussions we were able
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The wines begin their aging in well-filled cellars, and winegrowers and merchants alike are rejoicing: 2022 will appeal to lovers of good Burgundy wines. After three difficult years with volumes reduced by unfavorable weather, the 2022 vintage relaxes the market and replenishes stocks. The grape varieties resisted extreme weather well, taking advantage of every downpour.The year was marked by frost, heatwaves and drought. The late budburst partially protected the vineyard from the April frost. Burgundy's 2022 vintage has overcome several heat waves and a widespread lack of water.This balance is found in the musts, which present controlled degrees. The wines are concentrated and balanced.The 2022 vintage of Burgundy wines, despite a very hot year, offers aromas of fresh fruit and a bright future.
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One of the most famous French restaurant La Tour D'Argent is one of the most famous restaurants in France, Michelin starred known for its specialty Le Canard Pressé, with its restaurant offering a spectacular view of Notre Dame de Paris and counting in his cellar more than 300,000 bottles of wine, just to note the disappearance of several bottles of rare wines approximately 83 bottles have disappeared for a total value of 1.5 million Euros. It was during an inventory that the restaurant realized that several bottles of rare wine were missing from its inventory. The police did not notice any break-in..... In short, there are still bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti missing, one of the rarest and most expensive wines in the world. The Silver Tower has existed since 1582 and has served some famous heads of state including Queen Elizabeth II, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt,
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The Champagne wine association (AVC) has just committed to neutralizing CO2 by 2050 at the latest and renouncing the use of herbicides by 2025. Announcement made by Messrs. David Chatillon and Maxime Toubard, co-presidents of Champagne Committee. Other good news: in order to limit CO2 emissions, the Champagne industry is reducing the weight of each bottle by more than 50 grams. This measure makes it possible to avoid the emission of 8,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere each year, which equals 4,000 vehicles.https://maisons-champagne.com/
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In 2022 the United States of America imported more than 34 million bottles of Champagne, which represents a turnover of more than 793 million and an increase of +58% compared to 2022.France is the world's largest consumer of champagne with more than 185 million bottles.United Kingdom: 28 million bottles – 550 million eurosJapan: 16 million bottles – 432 million eurosGermany: 12 million bottles – 245 million eurosAustralia: 10.5 million bottles – 188 million eurosBelgium: 10 million bottles – 180 million eurosItaly: +10 million bottles – 247 million eurosSwitzerland: 6 million bottles – 145 million eurosSpain: 5 million bottles – 115 million eurosNetherlands 3 million bottles – 70 million euros
The best-selling champagne brand in the world is Moët.There are 26,200 winegrowers, 130 cooperatives and 370 champagne houses on 34,200 hectares in 3 regions in 5 French
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Billionaire Michel Reybier, owner of Château Cos d'Estournel, second classified growth of the Médoc, in the Bordeaux vineyards, has just bought Château Cos Labory, Grand Cru Classé in 1855 in Saint-Estèphe in the Médoc vineyards. The château is made up of 35 hectares of vineyard and produces approximately 78,000 bottles. Michel Reybier is the owner of the Domaines Reybier hotel group, he was born in Lyon (France) and is one of the top 500 fortunes in France. This Lyon entrepreneur started in supermarkets and reigns over the pork industry with the brands Cochonou, Justin Bridou and Jambon Aoste (sold in 1996) with 19 factories in France and Europe employing 2,500 employees.
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The Professional Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris exhibition received more than 35,000 professional visitors at the Paris Exhibition Center in 3 days. This increase is mainly due to foreign visitors. For the 2023 exhibition Vinexpo Paris and Wine Paris increased the exhibition area by 20% and the number of exhibitors by 18%. There were a total of 3,387 exhibitors.https://wineparis-vinexpo.com/
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It was the Latvian, (former Baltic Soviet republic which does not produce wines) Raimonds Tomsons who won the title against Nina Jensen (vice-champion) and Reeze Choi (China third in the competition). Candidate Pascaline Lepeltier came fourth. To win the World’s Best Sommelier competition in Paris, it was a dream. The pressure was enormous during the final, we had to taste the wines blind, identify non-alcoholic drinks from around the world and imagine a vegan menu. Andreas Larsson, Best Sommelier in the World 2007 and Member of the Jury for this 2023 edition, declares that he is happy not to have had to participate in this very difficult competition.https://winehubpro.com/wine-tasting
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The Domaines Artémis company, a wine company owned by French billionaire François Pinault, has just bought the Champagne Jacquesson house. François Pinault already holds the Premier Grand Cru Classé du Médoc Château Latour, Pauillac and Champagne Henriot. François Pinault also owns the Stade Rennais football club. The Jacquesson Champagne House, founded in 1798 in Dizy in Champagne, belonged to the Chiquet family who acquired it in 1974. Jacquesson produces 250,000 bottles of champagne per year.https://www.champagnejacquesson.com/homepage
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Dubai has just removed the 30% tax on alcohol sales in order to stimulate international tourism, and is also removing the fee on personal alcohol licenses, because for an individual who wishes to drink alcohol at home it was required to have a personal liquor license.
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It was in the Itata Valley in Chile that the vines were destroyed. More than 600 wine producers are affected by the forest fires. Some wine producers have lost everything. It is announced that there would be more vineyards destroyed than the fire of 2017. The vines of the Pais grape variety, located in the Bio Bio Valley, are almost entirely destroyed. Unfortunately the affected vineyards are located very close to Eucalyptus and pine forests which spread fire very easily.
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On Sunday, February 12, 2023, Raimonds Tomsons, a 42-year-old Latvian sommelier, stepped into the spotlight. This sommelier from Barents, one of the finest restaurants in Riga, the capital of Latvia, won the title of the world's best sommelier in Paris. Three years earlier, in Belgium, he had finished third. This time, he won.
Event ambassador and wine tastings at WineHubPro Ltd, London. Judge at the prestigious Decanter World Wine Awards. Wine director at Barents Wine Collectors, Riga, Latvia. Ambassador for Star Wine List
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Donald Hess died in Switzerland at his home in Bern. A pioneer by nature, Donald Hess was determined to bring winemaking to the high altitude Napa Valley. He established the Hess Collection winery on the slopes of Mount Veeder.https://www.hessperssonestates.com/
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The ASI (Association of the Best Sommelier in the World) organizes the global competition in Paris at the Pullman-Montparnasse Hotel (51 Avenue du Maine, 75014 Paris Tel: +33 (0) 143 221 013 - https://www.hotel -montparnasse.fr - 65 delegations will be present The final will take place at Paris La Défense Arena - 99 Jardins de l'Arche 92000 Nanterre, France, Tel: +33 (0) 181 929 292 - https://www.parisladefense-arena.com. It is the UDSF (Union de la Sommellerie Française, 97 Boulevard Haussmann 75008 Paris, France – Tel: + 33 (0) 607 760 658 - https://sommelier-france.fr/ chaired by Philippe Faure-Brac, president of the USF and Best Sommelier in the World 1992.
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The Bordeaux court has just dismissed Château Petrus against the Coureau brothers, owners of the CGM company which marketed Petrus Lambertini. The Court rejects the appeal of Château Petrus and confirms the absence of misleading commercial practice. The dispute dates back more than eight years. It all started when Stéphane Coureau, director of the CGM company with his brother, wine merchant and producer in Saint-Savin in the Bordeaux vineyards, decided to name their wine “Petrus Lambertini Major Burdegalensis 1208”. This brand had been registered with the INPI which concluded that there was no risk of confusion with the Château Petrus brand.
At first instance, the Coureau brothers were referred to the Bordeaux Criminal Court for “Deceptive commercial practices” following the publication of a consumer who wanted to resell his bottles of Petrus' second wine. Then, Château Petrus won its case despite the fact that the cuvée mentioned
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The European Chamber of Commerce established in China has warned Beijing about its protectionist measures against European wine producers, claiming that the first victims would be Chinese consumers. China believes that European subsidies were detrimental to Chinese wine producers. Europe exports more than a billion euros of wine to China.
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Businessman Bernard Arnault, president of the LVMH Group, has just expanded his empire with the purchase of a villa and a vineyard in Italy. The villa Casa Degli Atellani in Milan had belonged to Leonardo da Vinci which had been given to him by the Duke of Milan in 1498 to reward him for the creation of one of his most famous works: The Last Supper. This villa has a vineyard located in the city center of Milan. Over the first three quarters of 2022, the LVMH Group achieved a turnover of 56.5 billion euros, an increase of 28%, for the same period of 2022.
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A bottle of Petrus 2000 has just spent 14 months in the international space station and will be offered for sale at 1 million USD at Christie's. The bottle of Petrus 2000 was aged on board the International Space Station is presented in a trunk made by the Maison d'Art de Paris "Les Ateliers Victor" placed next to a bottle of Petrus 2000 aged in the cellars with a carafe, two glasses and a corkscrew made from meteorite.https://ateliers-victor.com/https://www.christies.com/
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The Italian sparkling wine brand Ferrari Trento is enjoying great success in the world of fine motorsport and wine tourism wines. The Formula 1 podium which is sponsored by Ferrari Trento to celebrate race victories extends its sponsorship until 2025. 60,000 bottles of Ferrari Trento Brut were served during the Grand Prix of the F1 season. Unique Ferrari F1 Podium Jeroboam shaped bottles autographed by the winning drivers were auctioned on F1 Authentics which raised over £30,000 which will be donated to the Red Cross, in support of victims of the war in Ukraine .https://www.ferrarirento.com/
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This Bordeaux group which belongs to the Despujols and de Lavaux families, which is located in Libourne, in the Bordeaux region, has just acquired Wildcat Packaging, the luxury packaging specialist. Bordeaux crates have been established since the 1960s in Gironde where it has three factories located in different parts of the Bordeaux vineyards. The Wildcat Packaging group is based in the USA.https://wildcatpackaging.com/
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Spain is the third country in the world in terms of wine production behind France and Italy. Spanish wine production represents nearly 5 billion dollars each year.In Spain, higher temperatures caused by global climate change are affecting vines and genetic researchers believe that vines older than 35 years are better able to withstand this natural phenomenon. The Rioja region has 500 wineries and represents 21% of Spanish wine production, totaling an annual turnover of more than $1.5 billion per year.Rioja wines which have been produced for hundreds of years, in the northern region of Spain, produce some of the best wines in the world. Winemakers struggle to produce good wine, they believe wine tasted better in the past when temperatures were generally cooler. The summer of 2022 was the hottest in Spain since record-keeping began in 1961. Researchers believe old vines may grow better at higher temperatures. The current
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For the first time, the Penfolds company will offer in its annual collection a range of wines from 3 countries of origin: Australia, California and France. The French version of Penfolds II is led by a wine made with Maison Dourthe in Bordeaux, made by Peter Gago Head Winemaker of Penfolds and Frédéric Bonnaffous Head Winemaker of Maison Dourthe. Penfolds II: a partnership wine between a blend of Syrah from Australia and Cabernet from Bordeaux.
https://www.dourthe.com/https://www.penfolds.com/
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After Château Ausone, Cheval Blanc, Angelus, Croque Michotte and La Gaffelière, the first grand cru classified A and B of Saint-Emilion since 1955, left the Saint-Emilion classification. The reason is that they no longer recognize themselves in this classification entrusted to Bureau Veritas which is in charge of tastings and analysis of applications, of searching for independent professional tasters (screw traders, sommeliers, eonologists, brokers, wine merchants , cellar master, operators... who could justify 10 years of experience in the regular practice of tasting.
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