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(13-01-2009)
For the first time in over a decade, exports of Australian wine fell, with figures showing a drop of 15.1% in value for the twelve months ending November 2008.
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(10-10-2008)
Constellation Brands lost $22.7 million in the first half of the financial year, ending August 31st, with re-structuring costs in the group’s Australian wine business largely to blame.
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(23-09-2008)
Camden Park, the wine brand recognisable for the distinctive bull that features on its label, has been re-launched with wine sourced from Argentina, rather than Australia, where it began.
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(23-09-2008)
Palandri Wines has emerged from administration with a new name and a new owner.
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(09-09-2008)
Australia has overtaken the UK as New Zealand’s principal export wine market, with New Zealand selling more than 27.3 million litres to Australia in 2007.
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(12-08-2008)
Constellation Wines Australia is to sell three wineries and a total of twenty vineyards, while retaining the brands associated with them.
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(30-07-2008)
Tapanappa Wines, the joint venture between the Croser family in Australia, the Bollinger family in Champagne and the Cazes family of Chateau Lynch-Bages in Bordeaux, has appointed Xavier Bizot as general manager.
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(30-07-2008)
Wyndham Estate has appointed Nigel Dolan as chief winemaker. He joins the company from Fosters, where he was Group Red Winemaker.
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(30-07-2008)
In the year ending May 2008, domestic wine sales in Australia fell 6% from 449 million litres to 424 million litres.
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(30-07-2008)
Foster’s chairman David Crawford has acknowledged that the returns from the group’s wine division are ‘not acceptable’.