• BRL Hardy Banrock Station Kelly’s Revenge spreadsheet
  • Constellation Brands ~ BRL Hardy Shareholders Approve Constellation Brands Merger to created world’s largest international wine business (3/20/2003) Constellation Brands Completes Acquisition (12/22/2004) of Robert Mondavi [Fool.com: "A Constellation of Wines" (1/7/2005) | "Constellation Brands Shines" (12/6/2004) | "Constellation Jumps Over the Moon" (10/1/2004) / "Top of the Grape Heap" Business Week (2/5/2003)] "Stephen Millar: The Vinter’s Tale" reprinted from Management Today (March 2003)
    • Wines: Almaden | Arbor Mist | Baron Philippe de Rothschild [Domaines des Barons de Rothschild] | Columbia | Franciscan | Inglenook | Manischewitz | Ravenswood | Ruffino | Taylor | Woodbridge Beers: Corona | Tsingtao | St. Pauli Girl Spirits: Black Velvet | Fleischmann’s | Montezuma | Paul Masson
• Top Global Competitors:
  • Argentina ~ WINESOFARGENTINA.COM "Argentina vintners seek to cramp Bordeaux, Napa's style" (3/23/2006) "Foreigners change ways of Argentina wine country" (3/14/2006)
  • Australia ~ Australia Now - The Australian Wine Industry Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker Australian Wine Research Institute Grape and Wine RDC National Wine Centre of Australia Wine Australia Winemakers Federation of Australia
    • Companies: Casella Wines [Yellow Tail] Foster’s ["Now, Foster’s Is Australian For Wine" Business Week (3/21/2005)] / Beringer  Lindemans Penfolds Seppelt] McGuigan Simeon
  • Chile ~ Chile Wineries - Find Chile Wine "Chile’s wine industry revamps its image" BBC News (23 April, 2002)
    • Companies: Caliterra
  • England ~ "UK to become top European wine market" (2/9/2005)
    • Companies: English Wines Group
  • France ~ "Are French wines screwed?" brandchannel.com Bordeaux.com "Can anything save French wine?" Money (8/23/2004) French Wine Institut National des Appellations d'Origine "The Latest Crisis in France" Newsweek (10/17/2006) Onivins Professional French Wine Organisations Terroir-France French Wine Guide "Tough Times for French Wine Industry" Wine Business Online (January 16, 2004)
    • Companies: Chateau d’Yquem Clicquot Groupe Castel Pernod Ricard [Jacob’s Creek and Wyndham Estate Australian Wine / Long Mountain South Africa Wine / Allied Domecq U.K. Wine] Vinival
  • Other "Old World" ~ German Wine Italian Internet Winery Spain’s Bodegas Irache winery has a fountain flowing with free wine
  • South Africa ~ Grape Information on South African wine industry South African Wine South African WineSeller "Uncorking the Spirit of South Africa" brandchannel.com Wines of South Africa
  • U.S. ~ "A Contemporary Perspective on the U.S. Wine Industry" KPMG (January 7, 2005) Brown-Forman E.&J. Gallo Winery Bronco Wine Company UST Inc.
    • California: California Wine Country Tour Napa Valley Wineries and Wine Napa Valley Wineries Wine Institute
    • New York: Finger Lakes Wineries and Wine Trails Uncork New York! Vintage New York
    • Others: Oregon Wines Texas Wine Trails Virginia Wines Washington Wine Commission
• Industry Information: Adams Market Research Alcohol Beverage Industry decanter.com Hoover’s Winemakers Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin USDA AgExport Services Division - Wine Vino! Vitisphere   WineAmerica Wine Business Wine Enthusiast Wine Industry Outlook Roy Morgan Research Wine Lovers’ Page wine from Encyclopedia.com Wine Wheel Wines & Vines Wine.com Wines.com World Wine Trade Group
• "Breaching the Grape Wall of China" Business Week (2/10/2005) "Grape Expectations: It's a Matter of Taste" Business Week (3/10/2004) "Grapes of Glut" Forbes (8/14/06) "Green International Wine Marketing" "Marketing Wine to the World" HBS Working Knowledge (2/16/2004) "Premium growth for New World wine makers" Beverage Daily (7/28/2004) "Wine War" Business Week (9/3/2001)
• And: ...if you take it seriously: Wine MBA ...or think it’s a game: WineSim ...or a movie: "MONDOVINO" at the Cannes Film Festival" / "Sideways" ...or have a sense of humor: The Boycott has destroyed the French wine industry / The French Wine Industry is in Crisis

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