Wine Industry Reports

  • Costing the earth: The price of biodynamic viticulture
    "...it is an illusion to attempt to understand through scientific proof something that you believe in." Manfred Klett More and more viticulturists are attracted by biodynamics’ holistic approach and focus ...
  • Fine Wine in the UK – the state of the market and outlook
    Britain's recession officially started in the middle of 2008, but revised data now contradicts the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling's statement at the time and it seems the recession ...
  • Social Media: Building communities and understanding them
    Social media is a way for you to build your own contacts and network, but as importantly, to understand, measure and follow your brand, your market penetration, your influence and ...
  • The cost of Champagne
    DECONSTRUCTING THE cost of producing a bottle of Champagne (in the non-Derrida sense, of course) is fraught with difficulty. Firstly, it is not a subject many producers, nor their oversight ...
  • The Italian Way: sparkling wines
    Italy is a country of enormous diversity - geographic, cultural, linguistic, culinary and, of course, vinous. This applies to their sparkling wine production as much as their mountains, art, cities, ...
  • Wine journalism and publishing: the impact of social media
    The impact of new media on the proliferation and quality of information available to the consumer and the correlative consequences on revenue models for publishers. Journalism (print media) is undergoing ...