They are drawing passionate wine lovers, among consumers and in the trade, whose support can help build a devoted base if not a mass audience.
After 1700 the company found a new profitable line in the Chinese tea trade, whose imports increased more than 40-fold by 1750.
That assertion seemed to raise as many questions as it aimed to deflect: How does one set trends in a trade whose giddy existence is under siege?
My memories of this indefatigable literateur are of a chain-smoking, loquacious jack of all trades whose reading was as wide ranging and various as his critical judgments.
When Coates started going to France as a wine buyer, in the mid-sixties, winemaking was a cottage trade whose methods had remained unchanged for a century.
members, developing countries were particularly at risk as their growth depended heavily on trade, whose deceleration was now the main downward pressure on world economic growth.
A recent survey of Odessa's prostitutes found that nine in 10 were desperate to escape a trade whose true scale remains unknown but is certainly vast.
In a trade whose flamboyant characters are increasingly in short supply, he is still so widely discussed among reporters that Apple stories constitute a subgenre of the journalistic anecdote.
He faces especially determined opposition from Misurata, a center of manufacturing and trade whose fighters endured a devastating siege by Qaddafi troops, and emerged as the rebels' most potent force.
Here, its Avahan programme, backed by $200m of foundation money, has concentrated on the country's lorry drivers, a trade whose members had a large share of responsibility for spreading HIV in Africa.
