Alcohol duty cuts make the Coalition's cheap alcohol policy even less effective. In 2012, the Coalition's Alcohol Strategy identified the ready availability of cheap alcohol as the number one reason behind excessive drinking in the UK.
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Geoffrey Dean talks to Jeff Clarke of Ara in Marlborough about the prospects for the 2014 vintage and how winemaking is evolving in New Zealand.
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Matt Walls catches up with Marcelo Papa to look at the plans for Calillero del Diablo and how developments taking place within winemaking across Chile are opening up new areas and varieties both for domestic and exported wines.
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Not to sound the pessimistic klaxon over what's gone down in today's Budget, but once the dust settles on what the trade has bid a roundly successful announcement (end to alcohol duty escalator, spirits and cider duty frozen and beer duty cut), let's pause for a moment to think about what's happened with wine.
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Not to sound the pessimistic klaxon over what's gone down in today's Budget, but once the dust settles on what the trade has bid a roundly successful announcement (end to alcohol duty escalator, spirits and cider duty frozen and beer duty cut), let's pause for a moment to think about what's happened with wine.
Read more...Casa Silva's managing director, Mario Pablo Silva, gives us the lowdown on the "promosing start" to Chile's harvest
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Nick Mantella shares his views on how Cava can compete with the fast-growing Prosecco, its plans to expand its branded portfolio, and Spanish wines in the UK market.
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One of the most common questions I'm asked about sake is what I'd suggest as a good introduction? It's easy to recommend a good premium sake, but they tend to cost more money than people are prepared to part with when risking trying the unknown.
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Forget about Brazil 2014. The World Cup has already been decided.
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Pippa Hayward is the latest member of the Association of Wine Educators to step up to the plate and offer her views on a topic closest to her heart: why Spain continues to excite both the wine expert, enthusiast and mainstream consumer.
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Melissa Draycott, sales director from González Byass, explains to Carol Emmas why it is keen to get its message across to the trade that it has a wine offer that more than complements its world famous sherries
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Bernard Fontannaz, founder of Origin Wine on quality control, expanding its portfolio to include Old World wines and Fairtrade.
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Looking back 19 years later, this project appears to be something of an exercise in vanity with a gentle hint of depravity folded into the mix. When our first child, Jessica, was born on February 13, 1995 amidst the common feelings of euphoria and elation, there was this little devil on my shoulder who wanted to break through the overwhelming sensation of joy to hatch a dastardly plan. This particular Beelzebub was a cunning so-and-so and knew exactly how to lure me into his evil lair.
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Excitement, experimentation and risk-taking are not words readily associated with wines from Chile. UK consumers are more likely to come up with reliability, good value and consistency when they think about Chilean wines.
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Erin Smith looks at how Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have coped with poor exchange rates
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Edward Robinson talks about the commercial success of Fairtrade wines at the Co-operative, how the Fairtrade mark works and highlights the group's biggest project in Argentina.
Read more...Chilean wine has had a Damascene conversion at De Martino, says Anne Krebiehl.
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The pair from Sud de France talk to Richard Siddle about how it hopes to use its Top 100 programme to highlight the very best wines from the Languedoc-Roussillon
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Guillaume Deglise has big shoes to fill in replacing Robert Beynat as chief executive of Vinexpo. Here he tells Richard Siddle how he intends to create a very different type of show - based largely on the customer and branding lessons learnt from his career in Champagne
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"What are you, a girl? Is this girls' night out?" That's what a friend, an investment banker, shouted at me, on a steamy summer night a couple of years back, when the waitress brought my cool, refreshing glass of Corte Gardoni Bardolino Chiaretto. I didn't flinch. As an American male who happens to enjoy drinking rosé, I'd heard worse. He continued: "Seriously, dude. Blush wine?"
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