Monthly Archives: April 2010

Direct Wine Shipping Remains THE Growth Channel for Wine

With US consumers trading down in price, wineries and importers have nowhere to go but to the direct to consumer sales channel to keep finding a market. The following statistics are reported for 2009 and projected for 2010: Total direct … Continue reading

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15% Demand Increase for Malbec Expected in 2010

Hundreds of hectares of Malbec are being planted by the big wineries like Catena and Trapiche and even more medium sized ones like Navarro Correas are planning on plantings this year to meet expected demand in years to come. Malbec … Continue reading

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Mairena Malbec and Bonarda: The Name Behind the Wines

It still surprises me a little to know that people are unaware that there was a military dictatorship in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, a dictatorship that kidnapped and killed more that 30,000 people. What does this have to do … Continue reading

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News from Harvest in Mendoza and Argentina: 2010

After the not so great 2009 harvest, in terms of production (1 billion kg of grapes produced and about 12.1 million hectoliters of wine) which was the lowest production in the last 8 years, preliminary harvest numbers for 2010 for … Continue reading

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When Will Free Trade Arrive in the Wine World?

For those who still don’t know, the alcohol laws in the U.S. are archaic, something left over from prohibition, when the idea was to create a system so that no entity could have a monopoly on the liquor trade. As … Continue reading

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Cork Usage in the Wine World

Recently, much debate over natural cork, synthetic, and screw top has festered between wineries, wine importers, wine distributors, wine retailers and wine consumers. Traditionalists, of course, espouse the virtues of natural cork, its history, its capacity to micro-oxygenate and so … Continue reading

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Blind Wine Tasting: 29 Wines From Mendoza and Rio Negro

The Anuva Team got together Thursday for a blind tasting of 29 samples from all over Mendoza and Rio Negro. As always, the system is very scientific. Our team of sommelier and wine experts along with selected wine professionals, who … Continue reading

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“Best Wine Tasting in Buenos Aires”

Angela over at San Telmo Loft and some friends of hers came to a wine tasting a while back and clearly loved it. They were blown away so much that Angela wrote a fantastic review about our wine tastings, that I, … Continue reading

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