Offering 32 local and international wines by the glass and 450 by the bottle, Dionisos Wine Bar is the first of its kind in a country.

“Wine drinking has doubled in the last eight years, it’s tiny compared to France or Italy, only about 1.2 litres a head, but it’s growing”, said one of four co-owners.

It also features a wall of pisco, a grape-based brandy and Peru’s national drink. (Source: Decanter.com)

Tasting, decanting, carafing … now there is also qivining, using the revolutionary Qivino.

Qivino is a scientific innovation that enables you to perfectly protect the flavour,

bouquet and hue of wine in an opened bottle.

Wine keeps best in an oxygen-free atmosphere. Qivino removes the air from the bottle and places the wine under a controlled atmosphere. Its successful results have been proved scientifically.

No longer need you waste a single drop of wine from opened bottles of wine that you have qivined. (Vinexpo Hall Marketers Allée B) (Source: Vinexpo)

Vignobles André Lurton will be holding 3 exceptional tastings of their wines on Sunday the 21^st, Tuesday the 23^rd and Wednesday the 24^th of June, during Vinexpo Bordeaux 2009. The tastings will take place in the late afternoon at the Andre Lurton booth. All fans of André Lurton's wines are most cordially invited!

They look forward to seeing you at their Vinexpo booth, from 4:30 to 6:30pm.

Sunday, June 21^st: André Lurton wines: cap that!

Tuesday, June 23^rd: André Lurton’s buried treasures

Wednesday, June 24^th: Andre Lurton, a vertical tasting of the classified growth chateau Couhins Lurton

(Vinexpo Hall 1 B50 / Contact: Marie-Dorothée Corneau + 5 56 72 56 06) (Source: Vinexpo)

New Zealand Winegrowers as announced that David Cox will become its new director of Europe. Cox, who has called the role his “dream job”.  NZ winegrowers said that Cox was chosen form many reasons, among them his “broad commercial experience, wide-reaching connections and commitment and passion for sustainable wines”. (Source: The DrinksBusiness.com)

Morocco has become one of the largest winemakers in the Muslim world, with the equivalent of 35 million bottles produced last year. "Morocco is a country of tolerance," said Mehdi Bouchaara, the deputy general manager at the Celliers de Meknes, the country's largest winemaker, which bottles over 85 percent of national output. "It's everybody's personal choice whether to drink or not." The Celliers have flourished on this tolerance and now cultivate 2,100 hectares of vineyards. (Vinexpo Hall 1 DE 50) (Source: The Associated Press)

Diageo, the world's biggest spirits group, expects to spend less on marketing this year due to the global downturn but aims to get more for its money. "Our marketing spend will be down this year, but our effective spend will be up," Chief Marketing Officer Andy Fennell said. His comments could send a chill through the advertising world because Diageo is one of the biggest spenders on TV ads. Fennell says deflation can be as much as 25 percent in some channels of advertising and efficiencies within the group can produce even bigger savings, while its marketing focus will switch to growth areas like Africa and to its fastest-growing brands.  "In recession it is harder to find growth, but it is still possible," said Fennell, after giving an investor presentation on group marketing. He says Africa is still seeing double-digit sales growth after reporting growth of 20 percent in the half year to end-December 2008. (Source: Reuters)

The 31 properties sold by Foster cover about 5 000 ha, and are in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. The sale of these properties and the decision to retire 37 wine brands, came about as a result of an internal review of its wine operations.

Landmark is handling the sale and spokesman Ian Desborough said he could not comment on price.

However, onlookers have speculated that the price tag could be somewhere about €108m. (Source: weeklytimesnow.com)