McGuigan Wines has revealed a blueprint to focus on its cool climate messaging in order to continue to transform Australia’s reputation at the premium end from “in your face wines” to wines of “flavour, intensity, structure and length”.
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Ines Salpico reports on a strategic rethink as sales of Italy’s favourite white experiences a dramatic fall.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged US President Donald Trump to lift tariffs on Scotch whisky.
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DMD Ventures, the parent company behind online alcohol retailer 31Dover and on-trade supplier Vanquish, is about to embark on a financial bid to the tune of half a million pounds.
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Boutique spirits importer and distributer Mangrove UK has a new head honcho at the helm of the company’s marketing and sales teams.
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Mast-Jägermeister has appointed Michael Cleary as its new managing director for the UK.
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Importer Alliance Wine has won the exclusive UK agency rights for Argentina’s Manos Negras winery.
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Australia’s wine exports grew 7% by value in the 12 months to 30 September 2019 to AU$2.89bn, Wine Australia has revealed.
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Gruppo Campari has reported strong organic sales growth of 6.9% for the nine months to 30 September.
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Argentinean wine brand Trivento has unveiled a time-limited Christmas-themed label for its Reserve Malbec.
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Liberty Wines has won exclusive UK trade rights to distribute Jancis Robinson MW’s glassware range.
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London-based start-up Silk Road Distillers has launched with a white spiced rum.
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London-based distributor Bancroft Wines has released the 2017 vintage from Barossa Valley producers Glaetzer Wines to the UK market.
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Wine guru Jamie Goode will be hosting a one-off masterclass and blind tasting to delve deep into the vinous roots of Bourgogne, Harpers can reveal.
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A raft of innovation has boosted the fortunes and the accessibility of whisk(e)y in the UK, a new report has revealed.
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I recently received an invitation to invest in the BIB Wine Company. They are crowdfunding on the Seedrs platform, one of the UK’s major players in this market. BIB summarise their pitch as:
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The government has agreed to temporarily suspend the introduction of forms which were feared to create an extra layer of red tape for the wine industry in what is shaping up to be an increasingly disorderly Brexit.
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Indie wholesale is on the rise, tapping into a retail ethos of knowledge, service and quality product, writes Andrew Catchpole
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The number of deaths from drink-driving has fallen around the world, according to the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking.
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Sales growth at global drinks giant Pernod Ricard has slowed, with first-quarter turnover of €2.483bn revealing underlying growth of just 1.3%, in line with expectations.
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