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ASC Fine Wines, China's leading importer of fine wines, has opened a Hong Kong office.

Copia, Napa's beleaguered wine, food and arts centre, has filed for bankruptcy protection as it struggles to restructure and stay in business.

Brown-Forman is to sell Italian wine brands Bolla and Fontana Candida to the company's Italian partner, Gruppo Italiano Vini (GIV), for an undisclosed sum.

I should just mention that I haven't yet seen this new publication; the details below are from the press release but seeing how little coverage is given to the English/Welsh wine industry I thought worth reposting unchanged. Click the image to open a full page preview... English and Welsh wine enthusiasts are in for a treat. A Guide to the Wines of England and Wales has just been published and is now available in all good bookshops and on line retailers, priced £14.99. Packed with up to date information and a wealth of illustrations, this new book provides a topical and unique insight in to the English and Welsh wine industry. A Guide to the Wines of England & Wales is compiled by the award-winning Wine Behind the Label team whose books have scooped all three of the major wine-writing awards in the UK. This is the first of their series of regional wine guides, researched in-depth to give a fully comprehensive overview of the industry. Over 100 vineyards are

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Apples and pears are transformed into sublime, complex alcoholic beverages. This is the season when food and wine articles in the national media suggest that the advent of colder weather calls for seasonal dishes (daubes, pork roasts, apple desserts) and richer, heftier wines (Zinfandel, Barolo, Port) to stave off winter's chill. True, except that our version of 'chill' can be downright temperate; before heading to the farmers market and the wine shop, I sometimes still have to slather on sunblock and grab my wide-brimmed hat. Such is the disconnect at this time of year, when instincts and habits tell us to braise lamb shanks and pull out the Cabernet, but the Southern California weather often refuses to cooperate.

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