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Amici Cellars Wine Week Package

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Wine

How about a vacation where your souvenir is 288 bottles of wine (or rather, the promise of those bottles of wine). That's the offer from Amici Cellars. John and Sharon Harris of Amici Cellars rent out two villas, one in St. Emilion in Bordeaux and one in Napa Valley. Both are available for rent for $25,000 to $36,000 a month rent, depending on the season. They also offer a special package during harvest season (usually September and October). Their seven-day package in Napa includes seven nights at the Domaine Beau Soleil villa (check out the view from the pool above), hands-on wine making instruction, harvesting, private winery tours, food and wine pairing lessons and even spa treatments. At the end of your week, you leave and your Amici Cellars, Single-Designated Hillside Jericho Canyon Cabernet stays for 18-24 months where it rests in French oak barrels. Once your wine is ready it will be specially labeled and bottled with your name on it. The package sells for $32,000.

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Grape Growers in Australia Ditch Their Harvest

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wine

More bad news for the Australian wine industries, they are experiencing a major grape glut. Grape growers located in South Australia's Riverland may lose millions of dollars in direct income which could amount in several hundred million dollars of loss for the local economy. The wine growers are dumping their grapes on the ground because they cannot sell them for a decent return.The prices offered are below the cost of production. Wine growers are upset and the Winegrape Growers Association is staging a rally later this month. The situation mirrors one that we heard about occurring in Chile last month.

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