Big Praise For Mount Fishtail Sauvignon Blanc Big Praise For Mount Fishtail Sauvignon Blanc as British Columbia’s (BC) wine sales near $1 Billion. A recent article in the Vancouver Sun heaped praise on one of New Zealand’s lesser known Marlborough wineries. Mount Fishtail Sauvignon Blanc was singled out in the article “ It’s hard to beat the
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Royal Easter Show Wine Awards – 2012 The latest Royal Easter Show Wine Award trophy winners have been announced. With 9, out of a total of 15, trophies given to extremely large production wineries, has the show lost its appeal to the smaller wineries? Where are all of the boutique, organic, biodynamic, backbone wineries? Are
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Sydney International Wine Competition Trophy Winners – 2012 Competition New Zealand wine cleaned up with the trophies in the Sydney International Wine. The stars of the show were Trinity Hill, Lawson Dry Hills and Saint Clair wineries. Between them they earned a very respectable 25% of all trophies. “The Kiwi trophy sweep is an outstanding
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Twylah and Pinterest It would appear that Pinterest is causing quite a stir, but less so is Twylah. So how can Pinterest and Twylah help your winery/wine brand or wine retail business? Can and will it return anything on investment, or are you wasting your time? Well the answer is far from clear at this
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When most consumers think of wine Riesling is far from the forefront. Yet despite this an American by the name of Paul Grieco is planning on making the Summer of 2012 the ‘Summer of Riesling‘ here in New Zealand. The movement has gained worldwide media attention and is hoping to capitalise on this traction to
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