Wine: a discombobulating ride?
Published: 04 March, 2021
Will we ever understand wine drinkers?
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Basset legacy scholarships to tackle “shameful lack” of MW and MS diversity
Published: 03 March, 2021
Leading lights from the world of fine wine have announced plans to find the future BAME and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of colour) hospitality leaders, by launching two new MS and MW scholarships which will be funded via a new glittering awards ceremony at London hotspot Annabel’s.
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Cork’s march to ascendancy
Published: 25 February, 2021
Having removed much of the taint of TCA to cork’s reputation, the classic stopper continues to establish itself as a benchmark of quality, as James Lawrence reports.
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Ribera campaign looks to bring 60 wineries to the UK
Published: 22 February, 2021
Ribera del Duero has launched an initiative to introduce over 60 additional wineries to the UK market following an uptick in interest in the region over the course of the pandemic.
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Long Read: English Pinot Noir comes of age
Published: 18 February, 2021
Pinot Noir has long had a place in UK winemaking, as part of the classic Champagne varieties and, to a lesser extent, still variants often from select vineyards or small parcels. Now, with an increasingly changing climate helping to ripen and tease out those darker fruits, it could be poised to strike out on its own, as Jacopo Mazzeo surmises.
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Helping hospitality survive
Published: 18 February, 2021
If reopening doesn’t come soon, many on-trade operators face ruin unless new support measures come into play. Andrew Catchpole reports.
Bancroft Wines: The glass half full
Published: 16 February, 2021
With a raft of new producers folded into its portfolio, Bancroft’s Jon Worsley explains to Andrew Catchpole why he’s cautiously optimistic about the year ahead
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Independent alcohol sales enjoy January boom
Published: 15 February, 2021
Newly released data shows that January 2021 saw an increase in demand for alcohol from independent businesses, along with an increase in the price tag compared to 2020.
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Soaring demand for rosé and exports at Nyetimber
Published: 15 February, 2021
Nyetimber has reported a major spike in demand for rosé in 2020 from their south east England vineyards, despite the loss of social drinking occasions often associated with pink wines.
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Extension to rent moratorium considered as momentum for UK re-opening builds
Published: 15 February, 2021
Ministers are reportedly drawing up plans to extend the rent moratorium for commercial properties until past the March end date, further curbing landlords’ ability to evict businesses over unpaid rent.
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Soapbox: Seeing red on Brexit
Published: 09 February, 2021
Cambridge Wine Merchants’ Hal Wilson calls for a united voice in the face of challenges posed to UK-EU trade by the Trade & Cooperation Agreement and the pointlessness of the dreaded VI-1 form
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Wales comes out top as “most sophisticated” UK wine nation
Published: 04 February, 2021
When it comes to buying wine, the Welsh are the most sophisticated while the English hunt for a bargain, according to data which aims to map the buying behaviours of UK drinkers.
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Vivino plans further UK investment following “skyrocketing” 2020 growth
Published: 04 February, 2021
Wine app Vivino has unveiled plans for investment in one of its strongest markets, the UK, after revenues there increased 114% in just one year.
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Jerry Lockspeiser: The wine and book markets are eerily similar
Published: 02 February, 2021
What can wine learn from other sectors of the economy? How do they add value to their products, communicate with consumers, achieve profitability?
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Minister dashes hopes of VAT cut extension
Published: 27 January, 2021
A treasury minister has said there are “no current plans” to further extend the reduction in VAT for hospitality businesses despite estimates that rising rates could directly and permanently impact the sector and lead to the loss of up to 310,000 jobs.
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Calls for UK trade to help crippled SA by freeing up tank space
Published: 25 January, 2021
Richard Bampfield MW has issued a call to the UK trade to support the beleaguered South African wine industry as producers continue to suffer crippling government restriction and oversupply issues.
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First roll out of Absolut’s paper bottle launches in the UK
Published: 25 January, 2021
Pernod Ricard’s flagship vodka brand, Absolut, will be rolling out its prototype “paper” bottle from today (25 January), initially in both the UK and Sweden.
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Nicholls marks one year Covid ‘anniversary’ – “We didn’t know it would be a tsunami”
Published: 21 January, 2021
UK Hospitality chief Kate Nicholls has renewed calls for additional government support a year on from her first strategy meetings with ministers at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Wine Drinkers UK calls for first tax cut in 40 years
Published: 20 January, 2021
Wine Drinkers UK (WDUK) have renewed their calls for the government to recognise wine as the UK’s favourite drink by cutting increasingly burdensome taxes.
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‘Tariff free’ trade continues to muddy the Brexit waters
Published: 20 January, 2021
The scrapping of lab tests for EU wine heading to the UK will save the wine industry tens of millions of pounds a year. However, the new trade deal between the EU and UK has thrown up new questions around how much cross border trade in 2021 is likely to cost, with EU wine travelling via GB to Northern Ireland and other parts of the EU now entering a no man’s land where it temporarily belongs to neither region.
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