Published: 24 August, 2020
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.
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Published: 24 August, 2020
A new auction to provide much-needed relief for Lebanon’s struggling wine sector has drawn support from the UK wine trade, after a massive explosion decimated the country’s main port on 4 August.
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Published: 24 August, 2020
With his iconoclastic and straight-talking approach, Sam Owens walks Andrew Catchpole through life as a moreishly modern indie
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Published: 20 August, 2020
California’s wine country has so far been spared the wrath of the latest wildfires, which broke out in the northern part of the state on Monday.
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Published: 20 August, 2020
Consumer confidence with regard to eating and drinking out dipped in the UK in July as the reality of an altered hospitality landscape sank in.
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Published: 20 August, 2020
Waitrose had reported a significant boost to its online wine sales as consumers take advantage of a “wider selection” of wine online during lockdown.
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Published: 20 August, 2020
Wine is an odd consumable. It’s a drug, it isn’t legally required to list ingredients, and it’s often described with vague, ambiguous terms. In the wake of the natural wine movement and the age of ‘wellness’, it was just a matter of time until a brand tried to hoodwink us. Quickest to the mark were Cameron Diaz and Katherine Power with ‘clean wine’, Avaline.
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Published: 19 August, 2020
Wines of Germany has launched a campaign offering financial support to smaller and medium-size retailers in the UK for the promotion of German wines to consumers.
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Published: 19 August, 2020
Broadland Drinks has reported an increase in pre-tax profit to £2.9m for the year ending 31 March 2020, up from £2m the previous year.
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Published: 19 August, 2020
Sales of beer, wine and spirits (BWS) through supermarkets increased 20% in the past four weeks, while total grocery sales slowed down.
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Published: 19 August, 2020
Bibendum Wines has added Valencian wine producer Bodegas Mustiguillo to its on-trade and Walker & Wodehouse portfolios.
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Published: 19 August, 2020
Hallgarten & Novum Wines has announced it will be supporting the hospitality sector in September with over 100,000 glasses of wine provided free of charge.
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Published: 19 August, 2020
Majestic has teamed up with A Glass With, the wine focused podcast hosted by Olly Smith and produced by Richard Hemming MW.
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Published: 17 August, 2020
Following a decade of consistent growth, Pink Prosecco is set to give a shot in the arm to a finally flatlining category, as Jo Gilbert reports.
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Published: 17 August, 2020
Accolade Wines has renamed its drinks manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution facility in Bristol to The Park.
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Published: 17 August, 2020
As the trade measures up to extraordinary times and swings into the height of summer, leading businesses and operators take stock of trading conditions in the new normal.
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Published: 17 August, 2020
Plumpton College is set to launch a new re-training programme in response to Covid-19 and Brexit.
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Published: 17 August, 2020
Vinpro has “acknowledged” the announcement it can resume local trade and distribution of alcohol under alert level 2 from midnight 17 August 2020, but said the industry still has “a long road to recovery”.
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Published: 17 August, 2020
Wine GB has announced the first British vineyards and wineries to formally achieve recognition for their sustainable credentials.
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Published: 12 August, 2020
The loss of celebratory drinking occasions has put the breaks on an already slowing thirst for sparkling wine in the UK, new research has revealed.
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