Given wine agencies have been rushing around for the past few years trying to get low-alcohol wines placed on supermarket shelves I don't know a single person who has actually bought a bottle, let alone regularly drinks them (I'm talking 5.5% abv and...
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Do you know how long it takes to drink an Olympic size swimming pool?* Me neither. Then I read the news from marketing wonks Nielsen that the UK consumed an additional seven Olympic swimming pools worth of bottled water in the first two weeks of July alone. That's not including at least 300 hundred packets of Elastoplast.
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In a recent Harpers (July18) there is an interview with Adam Boita of Pernod Ricard on the recent launch of the limited edition Absolut Unique. He notes that this is probably " the first time a...
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In the first of a new series of comment pieces from members of the Association of Wine Educators, dubbed AWEsome Tales, Helen Savage looks at the intricacies of wine pricing...
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Rollo Gabb, managing director of Journey's End Vineyards in Stellenbosch and first chairman of the Premium Independent Wineries of South Africa (PIWOSA) and co-founder Ken...
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In March 2012 our Prime Minister described the need to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol in terms that suggested the very fabric of society was at stake:
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I've always found Lionel Ritchie hard to like. First he turned The Commodores from the hard funk of 'Brick House' to the ultimate soppiness of 'Three Times a Lady'. Then came 'Easy like Sunday Morning', a ballad so middle of the road, it was dead hedgehog.
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Few people are better placed to discuss the Far East Cognac boom than Vincent Géré, Rémy Martin's director of estates and oenology. The man responsible for the style and supply of the Cognac brand, his association with China dates back more than 25 years. He spoke to Richard Woodard
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For the legions of Australians who love both cricket and wine, there at least came some consolation during the recent Lord's Test where their team were hammered by England.
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Angélina Stephan, France-based PR of majority family-owned Champagne house Billecart-Salmon, hosted a lunch at Hibiscus.
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Do the first three constitute the third? They certainly enhance it. Wine Music Food Life is the tagline to the...
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"I think of myself as a junior mixologist, steering drinks," says James Edwards.
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Diageo launched its World Class bartender competition in 2009. In its first year, the programme reached around 4,000 bartenders.
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Lately there seems to be just too much choice in life and it's tiring. For instance, only a few years ago we had just five TV stations, now there are hundreds and it takes forever to pick a channel if you're just lazily scrolling through via remote control. Then take social media; if you want to keep up with what is going on there is Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and blogs galore. We could lose days of our lives on Twitter alone choosing what links we want to click on to. If you totted up all the minutes spent making across-the-board choices, I reckon we'd lose months of our lives.
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The revamped London Wine Fair should consider not allowing any wine tasting at next year's show and put the emphasis 100% on how the wines look on-shelf if it is to really make next year's show at Olympia stand out as different from previous fairs.
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Look behind the scenes at Liberty Wines and it's easy to see why it was named IWC On-trade Supplier of the Year this week. Richard Siddle looks at its award-winning offer
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Patrick Venning, marketing director at Pernod Ricard UK, looks at the biggest breakthroughs in the wine category and the challenges and opportunties facing the industry in the years to come.
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"I was officially in charge of half the world of perfume," says Olivier Blanc, leaning forward from his director's...
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Paul Schaafsma, Accolade's general manager for the UK, Ireland and AMESCA, looks at the biggest...
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Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc is world famous for his skills in the kitchen. But here, in his own words, he talks about the equal passion he has for the wine ? particularly from his adopted shores of the UK ? that he chooses to go with his award-winning food
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