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First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 2 reports

Pomerol's Chateau La Commanderie sold for â¬8m

Chateau La Commanderie in Pomerol has been sold to a young Hong Kong couple, Andrew and Melody Kuk. ... [Published Decanter.com - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Hong Kong

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Oregon Wine

Sideways author sets sights on Broadway as chances of film sequel diminish

Rex Pickett’s play of his film Sideways is a step closer to Broadway after he recruited award-winning director Des McAnuff, but prospects for a big-screen sequel remain small.Colossal fan base...Rex PickettSideways the play will open at La Jolla Playhouse ... [Published Decanter.com - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Rex Pickett, Des McAnuff, Alexander Payne, Oregon Wine, Voit

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA

Bordeaux 2012: Ausone, Cheval Blanc, Cos dâEstournel release below 2011 price

'There must be a plan somewhere'...Cheval BlancThe blue-chip St Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé A has come down to €355 ex-Bordeaux, bringing it just below its 2008 price of €360.Fellow Saint Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé A, Chateau Cheval Blanc, ... [Published Decanter.com - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Classé, Chateau Cheval Blanc, Luxury Goods, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Bordeaux winemakers give their take on Derenoncourt's 'special' en primeur samples

International consultant Stephane Derenoncourt has caused a minor controversy by saying that he puts his wines through a 'special preparation' for En Primeur – but there is little unusual in that, Bordeaux vignerons and proprietors say.En Primeur samples... ... [Published Decanter.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: Bordeaux (France), Bernard Magrez, Winemaker

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

London court hears brother and sister accused of Â£2m wine fraud

Investors were 'defrauded' of £4.5m through two companies run by Daniel Snelling (pictured), Southwark Crown Court in London has heard.The first company was Nouveau World Wines, which operated between 2007 and 2009, offering investments in Australian ... [Published Decanter.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: Southwark Crown Court, Fraud, London

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Oregon

Jackson Family consolidates Oregon holdings

Jackson Family Wines is aiming to increase its production of ‘world class’ Pinot Noir with the purchase of a number of vineyards in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.'World class Pinot Noir'... Zena CrownThe acquisition of the Zena West vineyard in the Eola-Amity ... [Published Decanter.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: Jess Jackson, Oregon, Kendall-Jackson, Cloning, Dallas (Texas, United States)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Decanter World Wine Awards 2013 winners announced

Judges at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards tasted a record-breaking 14,362 wines and awarded nearly 10,000 medals, it was announced this morning.The Decanter World Wine Awards launched in 2004 with just over 4,000 wines, and is now celebrating its ... [Published Decanter.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Harvest, Avola (Italy), London, Hua Hin (Thailand)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Mouton to open new gallery for label collection

A new art gallery will open at Chateau Mouton Rothschild this summer to permanently house the travelling exhibition Mouton Rothschild: Paintings for the Labels.Lucien Freud's 2006 labelThe new display space, separate to Mouton’s Museum of Art in Wine, ... [Published Decanter.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Jean Carlu, Philippine de Rothschild, Château Mouton Rothschild

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Cambridge and Copenhagan qualify for Left Bank Bordeaux Cup final

Cambridge University and Copenhagan Business School have progressed to the final of this year's Left Bank Bordeaux Cup having won their places at the European semi-finals over the weekend.Cambridge and Copenhagan progress to Left Bank Bordeaux Cup fi ... [Published Decanter.com - May 19 2013]

Entities: Bordeaux (France), Christian Mark, Connaught Hotel, Chongqing University

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Natural wines transported by sail power

More than 3,000 bottles of wine have been sailed into London by a new company keen to demonstrate the environmental benefits of old-fashioned wind power.The future?... the Michel & Patrick. Le Grand is back row, second from the left, Isabelle Legeron ... [Published Decanter.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: London, Winemaker, Olive Oil

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Bordeaux 2012: Montrose, Clinet, Domaine de Chevalier release

New price releases are being met by an increasingly small pool of buyers in the Bordeaux 2012 campaign.Montrose...five vintages cheaper than 2012Among the estates to release yesterday were Chateau Montrose, matching Pichon Comtesse with a 20% price decrease ... [Published Decanter.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Domaine de Chevalier, Château Guiraud, Château Montrose

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Chinese investors snapping-up 'one chateau per month',...

Asian-owned properties in Bordeaux now number 40 to 50 – a figure that, given the size of the region, is a mere ‘blip on the radar’, estate agent Maxwell-Storrie-Baynes says.From 1997, when Taiwanese native Peter Kwok bought Chateau Haut Brisson, there ... [Published Decanter.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Bordeaux (France), Christie's, Burgundy AB

Quotes

"The La Jolla Playhouse is a great regional theatre that has sent a lot of plays to Broadway Pickett said. 'At the risk of immodesty, the fan base for this film is colossal, but not many in that fan base are regular theater-goers, but this is one play they will see.'"

Sideways author sets sights on Broadway as chances of film sequel diminish [Published Decanter.com - 5 hours ago]

...Emmanuelle Cruse, Grand Maitre de la Commanderie Du Bomtemps congratulated all of the teams that took part in the competition that he said is "becoming more and more difficult at a very professional level"

Cambridge and Copenhagan qualify for Left Bank Bordeaux Cup final [Published Decanter.com - May 19 2013]

RAW organiser Isabelle Legeron MW said that, for natural wines, the initiative "is a complete continuation of the work in the vineyard, of that philosophy"

Natural wines transported by sail power [Published Decanter.com - May 17 2013]

...One prominent owner, on selling her estate to a private French buyer said, "We wanted it to go to another family. We didn’t want it to go to a faceless insurance company or to a group of Chinese investors. We’re very happy that it is going to a family that we have known for a long time, and that we know will look after the estate."

Chinese investors snapping-up 'one chateau per month',... [Published Decanter.com - May 17 2013]

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