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Furbo-powered scandals

December 16, 2009

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will need up to several weeks rest following his attack while giving a speech on the evening of December 13 in front of Milan’s Duomo, the city’s massive Gothic cathedral. A 42-year-old man with a history of mental illness hurled a softball-sized souvenir statue of the cathedral at Berlusconi’s face, [...]

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Aux armes, citoyens: French wine lobby fights back

December 1, 2009

As reported on Decanter.com on November 19, the main wine appellations in France are working to counteract the “vilifying” of wine in France. Burgundy Wine Board (BIVB) President Pierre-Henry Gagey announced the pro-wine lobbying effort at the annual Hospices de Beaune charity wine auction. In addition to Burgundy, the Bordeaux and Champagne appellations will contribute [...]

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Tough love: Wine writer Andrew Jefford’s
take on wine writing and Australian wine

November 24, 2009

One of my favorite wine writers, Andrew Jefford, is halfway through a year as the wine-writer-in-residence at the University of Adelaide, while he researches a book about Australian terroir. On November 10, he delivered a speech—“Falling in Love Again: Australian Wine and the International Press” at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide. The speech is [...]

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French wine television channel under consideration

November 17, 2009

France, the world’s largest exporter of wine in terms of value (it’s behind Italy and Spain in volume), and also the world’s biggest consumer of wine, has a slightly schizophrenic relationship with wine. On the one hand, you cannot separate France from wine. The baguette-cheese-wine picnic is the ultimate French cliché. On the other hand, [...]

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TONG: A new kind of wine magazine

November 5, 2009

Launching a magazine in difficult economic times is risky enough. Print publications in general are under pressure from the Internet, making such an exercise even more difficult. Even such venerable titles as Gourmet Magazine (around for 70 years) are closing. So it seems an inauspicious time to launch a new international wine magazine, but that [...]

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