Liberty adds fizz to portfolio

Liberty Wines has added family-owned Pierre Péters to its Champagne portfolio.

FMV restructure focuses on premium off-trade and private customers

Berry Bros & Rudd (BBR) has announced that the restructure of trade arm FMV is complete, leaving almost 100 producers in its trimmed portfolio, with traditional strength Burgundy at its core.

Delibo expands list with three new agencies

Wine importer Delibo has added three new producers to its portfolio.

Araex brings on first sherry

Araex, Spain’s premiere fine wine group, has added a three-tiered range of sherries to its pan-Spanish portfolio alongside a number of new Spanish wines.

Bancroft bolsters Beaujolais with three new estates

Bancroft Wines has added Domaine Chignard, Alexandre Burgaud and Domaine de la Rocaillère to its portfolio.

Vinexpo and Comexposium unveil new joint venture

Vinexpo and Comexposium have unveiled details of their new joint venture, named Vinexposium, which was first announced in January.

Accolade Europe achieves carbon neutrality for UK core portfolio

Accolade Wines has achieved a major milestone in its journey to reduce its carbon footprint to net zero across the company.

Sales at Pernod Ricard slump post-Covid

Organic sales at Pernod Ricard fell 9.5% as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, the company has reported, with revenues for the year to 30 June reaching €8.5bn.

Graft bolsters Australia and South African portfolios as it gears up for digital tasting

Graft Wine, last year’s merger of Red Squirrel and The Knotted Vine, is gearing up for a bumper month of activity in September, with two Southern Hemisphere additions joining the company as it takes its autumn tasting online.

Armit keeps up on-trade momentum with Liber Pater listing

Armit Wines is forging ahead with its plans to strengthen its position in the on-trade with a new addition to its supplier portfolio.

Gonzalez Byass launches new UK Manzanilla

Gonzalez Byass is to release a new Domecq Manzanilla in the UK made at Delgado Zuleta in Andalucia’s Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

Accolade appoints new European marketing director

Accolade Wines has appointed Caroline Thompson-Hill to the role of European marketing director.

Birse-Stewart joins Berkmann’s Scottish team

Distributor Berkmann Wine Cellars has appointed Billy Birse-Stewart as consultant director.

Hallgarten invests in European portfolio with 40 new wines

Importers collective SPOT portfolio offers streamlined buying

Sometimes the best ideas are the most straight-forward ones; at least that’s the hope of Solano Peña-Lenzi from specialist wine importer Hispamerchants.

Amathus Drinks sets sights on first tasting event

Amathus Drinks is to hold its first wines and spirits portfolio tasting event this autumn.

Winetraders signs up Hampshire’s Exton Park

Winetraders has expanded its listings with the addition of English sparkling wine producer Exton Park.

Q&A: Kim Wilson and Joy Edmondson, North South Wines

Innovative, agile and on-trend, North South Wines is shaking up the traditional importer model. Andrew Catchpole meets its founders

LWF: Inverarity continues the Scottish march south

Scottish-based Inverarity Morton is using its second ever outing at London Wine Fair (LWF) to advance its focus on supplying the English trade, with a round of new agencies in its portfolio.

Hallgarten’s Andrew Bewes and Steve Daniel on selling style

Premium sales, progressive lists, and off-piste portfolio additions are Hallgarten’s calling cards, as Andrew Catchpole discovers