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USA

If you read nothing else about America and wine …

04/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

One of the best articles I’ve read on wine, consumer attitudes and the American market. None of which would make it worth reading to most of us outside the USA except that so much of it applies to the rest of us.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Apothic Red, Eric Asimov, Meiomi, New York Times, popular wines, supermarket wines, Swiss supermarket wines, The Prisoner, USA

Cuban rum from the US – not quite the real thing

27/03/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Travelers from the US to Cuba this year will be able to sample the real Havana Club Cuban rum, but they might not even be aware that the brand sold at home under the same name is a rip-off label brand. IP Watch reports this week that the brand name is sparking […]

Filed Under: News, Travels Tagged With: Cuba, Havana Club, IP Watch, rum, USA, WTO dispute

Spot on? or variation on Australia’s bag in box?

09/04/2014 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Two US companies, Nuvino and Spotwine, are marketing bagged wine as an innovation that takes the snobbery out of wine while preserving the quality, but the real sales pitch is convenience. Little wine pouches keep the flavour in but come in a small size and don’t require a corkscrew, the literature says. My first thought […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: convenience, small wine quantities, USA, wine pouches, wine snobbery

Italians, Spaniards and French visited Swiss in November

16/01/2013 by Ellen Wallace

BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss tourism figures showed some unusual developments in November 2013, with Italy showing the strongest growth, with overnight stays up 14 percent, France up 8.2 percent and Spain up 14 percent. Italy led the way with the largest overall increase in visitors, but European visits to Switzerland as a whole rose 2.9 […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Basel, China, French, Geneva, hotels, India, Italians, November 2012, overnight stays, Spaniards, statistics, Switzerland, tourism industry, USA

Human Rights Watch accuses S Africa vineyards of worker abuse

23/08/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – South African vineyards and fruit farms are accused in a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) of abusing their workers who, it says, are some of the worst-paid workers in the country. Ripe with Abuse: Human Rights Conditions in South Africa’s Fruit and Wine Industries,” was published Tuesday 23 August by […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: "Ripe with Abuse; Human rights Conditions in South Africa's Fruit and Wine Industries", abuse, exports, Germany, Human Rights Watch, report, South Africa, USA, workers

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