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Champagne sales surged in 2011, booze headed for 2012 boost
Ringing in the New Year is hardly about the resolutions -- clearly, booze is the star. And 2012 might be alcohol’s best year in a while.
Take Champagne sales. Worldwide, shipments of the bubbly were up 5.2% during the first half of 2011,...Tags: Alcoholic Beverages, New Products, Wines
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Fake pinot noir case may soon yield refunds
Los Angeles TimesNeed a decent bottle of pinot noir? Customers who got sour grapes from drinking phony pinot noir that French wine traders sold to some Gallo brands, Robert Mondavi and other labels could get enough money back this spring to buy a bottle of the real...Tags: Corporate Crime, Companies and Corporations, Companies and Corporations, Punishment, Trials
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Dark days for Cult Cabs
Is the Cult Cab dead?
The current economy has created ominous rumblings in the market for Napa Valley wine. Demand for high-end super-premium Cabs, even so-called cult wines, has weakened considerably with the recession. Sales are stagnant, inventories...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Consumer Goods Industries, Consumers, Cinderella (fictional character), Inventories
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After Mondavi, who will lead Napa winemaking?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNAPA Valley lost a charismatic leader when Robert Mondavi died on Friday. Has the Napa Valley that fostered such a maverick passed as well? Mondavi's Napa was the Wild West of winemaking. For the dozen wineries in operation in 1966, costs were low, there...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Alcoholic Beverages, Companies and Corporations, Consumer Goods Industries, Death
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2 Mondavis strive to give a landmark winery a bigger place on the map
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMondavi is one of the biggest names on the wine aisle. Then there's Peter Mondavi Jr. and his family's little winery. He looks over the millions of dollars of restoration underway at the historic Napa Valley operation and recalls how his grandparents...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Education, Companies and Corporations, Restaurants, Consumer Goods Industries
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Robert Mondavi, 94; vintner was a powerful ambassador for California wine
Special to The TimesRobert Mondavi, the pioneering Napa Valley vintner whose drive and salesmanship revolutionized the way the world thought about California wine, died peacefully Friday at his Yountville, Calif., home, a spokeswoman for the Robert Mondavi Winery said. He...Tags: Dining and Drinking, University of California, Berkeley, Companies and Corporations, Employment, History
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Spanish adventure
Times Staff WriterPULL up a stool at Lou's, a wine bar that opened six weeks ago, sandwiched between a fluff-and-fold laundromat and a pawn shop near the corner of Melrose and Vine, and Lou Amdur can tell you all about Spanish wines. Rich Garnachas from Priorato and...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Golf, Restaurants, Wars and Interventions, Death
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Rival Firm Offers $1 Billion for Mondavi
Times Staff WritersConstellation Brands, one of the largest players in the wine business, today confirmed it has offered to buy legendary California winemaker Robert Mondavi Corp. for about $1 billion in cash. The acquisition would include Mondavi's landmark Oakville...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Jesus Sanchez, Auction Service, Companies and Corporations, NYSE
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How CEO of third-largest beer seller in U.S. found his beach
Crown Imports CEO Bill Hackett looks at a glass of beer not just as an industry executive but also as a guy who poured a lot of pints to make ends meet in college.
In an interview at his company's recently completed lobby and office bar in the Loop,...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Companies and Corporations, Discovery Communications, Inc., Corporate Officers
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The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Institute for Supply Management index -- Earnings: AngioDynamics Inc.; Palm Inc.; Walgreen Co. Tuesday: -- September vehicle sales -- Earnings: Micron Technology Inc.; Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. Wednesday: -- Institute for Supply Management...Tags: Walgreen Co., Marriott International Inc., Chicago Tribune, Palm Inc, Research in Motion Ltd.
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