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Daily Archive: March 20, 2018

Bonterra, 1000 Stories Drive Growth For Fetzer

Concha y Toro’s Fetzer Vineyards is seeing strong progress for its Bonterra and 1000 Stories brands, boosting growth for the company as its namesake label continues to vie for share in the highly competitive under-$10 segment of the wine market. Continue reading →

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Champagne Shipments To The U.S. Rise 6% in 2017

Champagne shipments to the U.S. grew by 5.9% to 23.1 million bottles in 2017, according to the Comite Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC), marking their fifth consecutive year of growth. Continue reading →

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News Briefs for March 20, 2018

•Between October 2013 and June 2016, Raphaël Michel, a bulk-wine merchant in France’s Rhône Valley, allegedly sold the equivalent of 13 Olympic-size swimming pools of cheap French table wine while claiming it was some of the best wine of the Southern Rhône Valley. Continue reading →

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Craft Brewing and Distilling News for March 20, 2018

•Escondido, California’s Stone Brewing has unveiled Stone Totalitarian Imperial Russian Stout. Continue reading →

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