Nearly half of all British households are visiting Aldi or Lidl every month, heaping pressure on the big four supermarkets ahead of the busy Christmas trading period, according to latest data from Nielsen.
Read more...Members of the Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the creation of a classification system for their wines.
Read more...Rioja producer Bodegas Beronia has released its first white wine from outside the region.
Read more...Gallo is taking its Dark Horse premium Californian wines on a tour of the UK in a bid to persuade Tesco and Sainsbury's shoppers to buy the wines.
Read more...Hampshire vineyard Exton Park has released its first vintage wines.
Read more...Per capita consumption figures on a par with northern Europe make New Zealand a market ripe with potential for wine exporters, a new report claims.
Read more...Italian wine café chain Veeno is aiming to open 80 sites across the UK by 2019.
Read more...French wine producer Badet Clément has acquired its own vineyards in the Languedoc region with the purchase of Domaine de la Métairie d'Alon.
Read more...A new private members' club for wine connoisseurs will have a list of 5,000 wines and 500 of them served by the glass.
Read more...It happened again last week. I was on a flight from Mallorca to London City airport. It was one of those small planes with just two seats either side of the gangway. She was in an aisle seat and I was bolted in next to the window. I was trapped and I wanted to lie.
Read more...A team from Treasury Wine Estates raised more than £25,000 for trade charity The Benevolent.
Read more...The UK trade will have its first opportunity to taste the Official Selection of the Crus Bourgeois du Médoc's 2013 vintage next week.
Read more...Wines of Turkey will be hosting the largest ever number of producers brought together for its trade and press tasting in London in October.
Read more...Cockburn's Special Reserve port is to be available in three brightly-coloured tins in selected retail accounts from November.
Read more...Looking beyond red and the hype of en primeur there seems to be a resurgence in white and rosé wines from Bordeaux.
Read more...A leading Chilean winemaker thinks Malbec could be a grape with a big future in the country.
Read more...Chianti producer Piccini has launched a sparkling wine made with grapes from Prosecco territory.
Read more...Taittinger is releasing its 2006 vintage Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut this month.
Read more...Following the success of the launching his own programme WineTraining Ltd earlier this year Raul Diaz has partnered with John Davey to offer a comprehensive service and wine training programme for the on-trade called Hospitality Workshops.
Read more...Sparkling wine is the star performer in the drinks trade with the value of on-trade sales up by more than half in the year to July 7, according to Nielsen figures in the third quarter market report from the Wine & Spirit Trade Association.
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