1 J.P. Chenet Cabernet Syrah
2 Lindemans Shiraz Cabernet
3 Doppio Passo
4 Gato Negro Cabernet Sauvignon
5 Cantina Rossa 300 cl
6 Chapelle du Bois
7 Viña Maipo Cabernet Sauvignon
8 El Copero
9 La Boiselière (without vintage)
10 Da Luca Primitivo Merlot

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When it comes to sales of red wine, Italy is at the top. The sales boost up with 17% compared with 2007. Never before has it been sold so much red wine from Norway in a year.

The sale are reduced for the next 3 countries on the list
- France, Spain and Australia.

- Chile has increased the sales for the first time in 8 years.

The sale went up 2.8% in 2008.

This is the increase/decrease in 2008 with the most selling countries at the top:
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Italy 17,1%
Franche -2,3%
Spain -1,3%
Australia -7,7%
Chile 12,5%
Portugal -7,4%
Argentina -4,8%
South-Africa 12%
USA 2,8%
Hungary -17,3%
Other -23,9%

source: Vinmonopolet.no

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In Norway and Sweden wines are only sold through Alcohol Retail Monopoly. They exist for one reason only: To minimize alcohol-related problems by selling alcohol in a responsible way, without profit motive. Denmark has more continental laws and sells wines all over.

In Norway it is called Vinmonopolet and they have stores all over the country. The Swedish version is called Systembolaget . It has as I can see it a couple of advantages. First of all the prices on the best and the most expensive wine can be very nice. They have a fix profit on every wine regardless of its good, bad or popular. So when the marked in other countries turn the price up on the best ones, we can buy it at a fix cost. We in Winesworld have a website where we have tasted, compared and reviewed wines. We have a search page were you can find the best wine and compare the prices. Since there is only one store that sells wines, you can get it there and all the wines have they own item number so it is easy to get the right one. We have a link on every wine to the official sites were you can see if it is available directly and which store who has it on stock. We have a high tax on alcohol in Norway and Sweden so the low-priced wines are quite expensive. You cannot find a bottle of wine in Norway below $9.

To sum up it all up the benefit of having monopoly is that it is good organized, a wide range of wines, easy to find and you can do a scoop on the most wanted and best wines.

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We have now in Winesworld added most of the new wines that will arrive in Sweden and Norway in September 2008. The wines are now search able in our database and we are constant adding new dices/comment to the wines as they appear in all the major newspapers in Norway/Sweden.
You can all add your own dice/comment to all the wines we have in our database and you can find them all under ‘My Dices’ in the menu.
We hope you will enjoy and have some use of our wine database. Have fun!

Morten
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