Published: 03 October, 2025
The UK wine market stands tall among its global peers, with the quality of offer, including both portfolios and services delivered, riding high, also with innovation and evolution much in evidence. This, then, lends extra credence and kudos to those that have made it into our Top 50 Drinks Wholesalers listing this year, celebrating the best in the business of supplying quality drinks to both the hospitality and retail sectors.
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Published: 02 October, 2025
Celebrating 25 years since the founding of Top Selection, Akos Forczek shares his thoughts on current trading conditions with Andrew Catchpole.
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Published: 26 September, 2025
As Champagne celebrates an exceptional vintage, recent news has been less positive for the region’s organic producers: the rate of conversions has been fairly static over the past two years. But Ludovic du Plessis, CEO of organic producer Champagne Telmont, remains optimistic about organics’ future in the region.
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Published: 22 September, 2025
Deliveroo has announced a new partnership with the specialist wine retailer Laithwaites.
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Published: 05 September, 2025
For the final instalment of our summer Q&As the founder and chairman of Top Selection delivers some pithy and insightful thoughts on the challenges facing the drinks sector, while celebrating a quarter century at the helm of his business.
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Published: 05 September, 2025
Harpers Top 50 Sommeliers 2025 listing has landed, celebrating the very best in the UK restaurant world.
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Published: 14 August, 2025
Majestic has launched a 45,000-mile charity challenge to mark the company’s 45th anniversary.
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Published: 12 August, 2025
With Michele Chiarlo Winery having picked up the SWA European Producer of the Year title, and all five wines entered winning a medal, Alberto Chiarlo talks Andrew Catchpole through his family’s inspiring vision for wine.
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Published: 11 August, 2025
Bence Karpatfalvi, head sommelier at the recently awarded three Michelin-starred Moor Hall Restaurant with Rooms, talks challenges and triumphs for our summer series of Q&As.
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Published: 01 August, 2025
Matteo Furlan, head of wines at The Dorchester, adds to our summer Q&A series of drinks industry insights.
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The Wine & Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has published a ‘go-to guide’ for the industry, aimed at helping policy makers and politicians “better understand” the UK wine and spirit market.
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Hallgarten & Novum Wines is inviting applications for its second educational trip to Greece, aimed at helping to advance Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) in hospitality and wine.
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Is there a wine that offers a better combination of value, drinkability and ageability than top-end Rioja? My modest ‘cellar’ would suggest not. Amid an otherwise fairly eclectic collection, Gran Reservas from 2001, 2004 and 2011 are by far the most populous older wines. Classic, elegant and ageworthy – and distinctly uncool.
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Nominations for our UK's 50 Best Indies 2026 listing are still being invited, with just one week to go until the final deadline of 24 July.
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EU wine producers have been assessing the potential impact of a 30% tariff on wine bound for the US market following the latest missive from The White House on Friday (11 July).
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Charlotte Wallace managing and technical director, Graham Crawford, sales director, and Luke Flunder, brand ambassador, Oakley Wine Agencies.
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The Harpers Design Awards 2025 are now open to all drinks brands and design agencies that want to shine a spotlight on the look and functionality of their products in a range of categories.
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Jancis Robinson MW has become a patron of the Regenerative Viticulture Foundation (RVF), a global non-profit comprising those working in the wine industry to help reverse climate change.
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Iranian-born Asieh Hagh Shenas is yet to qualify as a winemaker, but nonetheless is already a rising star in the wine world, as Andrew Catchpole discovers.
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Berry Bros & Rudd has appointed Jamie Ritchie (pictured) as MD of international & auctions, with responsibility for leading its business in the US and Asia. He will join the company in August this year and will be based in Washington DC, where the company opened its first US store in June.
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