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women and wine

Celebrating Women Wine Producers and Professionals

March 8, 2012

March 8 is officially our day, Women’s Day.  We should pay more often a tribute to those women, wine producers or professionals, who are often the source of interesting initiatives. This article aims at mentioning just a few of those ideas or different approaches on various wine related topics. This is my way to tell [...]

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Château Lanessan, and its new branding strategy

July 5, 2011

Château Lanessan in Haut-Medoc near Bordeaux is one of those discreet and high quality family owned estates you hear about from time to time.  But it deserves more attention that it gets. Lanessan belongs to the Bouteiller family. It was run for the last 30 years by Hubert Bouteiller, brother of Bertrand Bouteiller who ran [...]

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Women agree to disagree on wine

June 8, 2011

A recent survey conducted by Vinexpo on women and wine in United Kingdom, France, Germany, Hong Kong and the US showed that cultural differences are an important factor of differentiation in appreciating wine. What did those women agree upon? They usually prefer red wine over white wine. They are driving the sales for rosé wines:  [...]

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European women as wine consumers

January 2, 2010

The International Associated Women in Wine conducted a study on the consumption of wine by European women. The results were announced in June 2008 during the general Assembly of the organization and the official analysis was just released. Some intriguing points were raised by the answers to the questionnaire, depending on the country where it [...]

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US Women as Wine Consumers in Restaurants

January 21, 2009

A recent survey conducted by Julie Brosterman’s Women and Wine site and Full Glass Research show that American women and European women face the same challenges when ordering wine in a restaurant and have pretty much the same behavior as wine consumers in a restaurant. Brosterman’s study was conducted through a survey of women present [...]

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European Women as Wine Consumers

December 4, 2008

The International Associated Women in Wine conducted a study on the consumption of wine by European women. The results were announced in June 2008 during the general Assembly of the organization and the official analysis was just released. Some intriguing points were raised by the answers to the questionnaire, depending on the country where it [...]

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Women and wine: a most inspired web site

July 14, 2008

Last week, I happened to read on my favorite wine community site, OpenWineConsortium, the name of Julie Brosterman who recently joined. I knew her name through her web site, women and wine, created about three years ago. I followed her as the web site grew and became more important, as the content improved and increased, [...]

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