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International Wine Challenge Reveals the World’s Highest Scoring Wines of 2025

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The International Wine Challenge (IWC) 2025 has once again affirmed its position as the most rigorous and influential benchmark of global wine quality. This year’s results highlight the remarkable diversity of viticultural excellence, with nine countries earning recognition across the most prestigious categories, including Champion titles, international trophies, and national trophies. The IWC’s methodological rigour, […]

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Alto Adige Wine Summit 2025: Expanding Horizons and Strengthening Global Influence

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The Consorzio Alto Adige Wines has successfully concluded the Alto Adige Wine Summit 2025, marking its most ambitious and internationally resonant edition to date. Held biennially, the summit serves as the preeminent platform for positioning Alto Adige as a dynamic contributor to the global wine dialogue, uniting international trade media, sommeliers, wine merchants, and hospitality

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Bulgaria Ushers in a New Era of Wine Tourism: Wine Routes, Sustainability + The UN Global Conference in Plovdiv

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Bulgaria is uncorking a bold strategy to embrace wine tourism year-round, weaving together heritage, taste, and experience. Tourism Minister Miroslav Borshosh is championing wine not just as a drink, but as a strategic complement to the nation’s tourist heartbeat, whether that’s serene valleys, culture-rich cities, or hidden terroirs. The ministry and the Bulgarian Wine Tourism

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Radici del Sud 2025: Celebrating the Roots of Southern Italian Wine and Food

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The twentieth edition of Radici del Sud recently concluded spectacularly, marking another milestone for this renowned annual celebration of Southern Italian wine and culinary excellence. Held from June 4–9, 2025, at the historic former Distillery Paolo Cassano in Gioia del Colle, Puglia, this unique gathering brought together wine producers, international buyers, critics, journalists, and passionate

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Welsh Wine Industry Thrives Amid Climate Shifts and Strategic Innovation

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In the rolling hills of Wales, a quiet revolution is underway. Once considered too cold and damp for viticulture, the Welsh countryside is now home to a burgeoning wine industry that is defying expectations and thriving amid climate shifts and strategic innovation. As global temperatures rise, regions previously unsuitable for grape cultivation are experiencing longer

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Historic Shake-Up: Château Lafleur Exits the Pomerol Appellation

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Château Lafleur announced a few days ago that it is withdrawing from both the Pomerol AOC and wider Bordeaux designation from the 2025 vintage, with all six wines in the Société Civile du Château Lafleur group set to become Vins de France. Here are some excerpts from the Guinaudeau family Letter: “Climate is changing fast

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USA Today Recognizes Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery as America’s Leading Destination for Wine Tours and Tastings

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For the fourth consecutive year, Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery in New York’s Finger Lakes wine region has been named the Best Winery Tour in the United States by the 2025 USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards. This recognition underscores the winery’s enduring role in advancing American viticulture and wine tourism through innovation, history, and experiential

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Raise Your Glass to New Zealand for International Pinot Noir Day – August 18th

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There’s something irresistibly seductive about Pinot Noir. It’s the grape varietal that makes sommeliers swoon, winemakers sweat, and wine lovers fall head over heels. And while Burgundy may have long been considered its spiritual home, New Zealand has been quietly (and sometimes not-so-quietly) redefining the Pinot Noir conversation. This August 18th, as the wine world

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EU Lifts Liquid Ban: Wine Bottles Now Permitted in Hand Luggage at Select European Airports

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Recent advancements in aviation security technology have prompted the European Union (EU) to revise its long-standing 100 millilitre liquid restriction for carry-on luggage. This policy evolution, currently applicable in select European airports, has significant implications for passenger convenience, airport operational efficiency, and regional agri-food economies, particularly the wine and olive oil sectors. The European Union

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EU wine, spirits to face 15% US tariff starting August 1

European wine and spirits will face a 15% U.S. import tariff until a different deal is agreed in talks expected to continue in the autumn, the European Commission and EU diplomats said on Thursday, dashing producers’ hopes of an immediate reprieve. A framework trade deal between Brussels and Washington on Sunday agreed a 15% tariff

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Wine Trade

Alto Adige Wine Summit 2025: Expanding Horizons and Strengthening Global Influence

Bulgaria Ushers in a New Era of Wine Tourism: Wine Routes, Sustainability + The UN Global Conference in Plovdiv

USA Today Recognizes Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery as America’s Leading Destination for Wine Tours and Tastings

Raise Your Glass to New Zealand for International Pinot Noir Day – August 18th

EU Lifts Liquid Ban: Wine Bottles Now Permitted in Hand Luggage at Select European Airports

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