Published: 29 August, 2017
The usually cool and wet climate of Galicia in the Atlantic reaches of Spain has been turned on its head this year, leaving wine producers to handle one of the earliest, but longest and most peculiar harvests ever recorded.
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Published: 24 March, 2017
London merchant Roberson Wine has added the natural wines of Vinca Minor to its extensive California portfolio
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Published: 20 March, 2017
Wine labels of the future will increasingly have a link to a website or QR bar code which could be scanned with phones to reveal the ingredients, calories and nutritional value of wine, but far less likely is any further legal obligation to fully disclose ingredients.
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Published: 20 March, 2017
France's 'South West' wine region has become the country's fastest-growing exporter of red wines to the UK, new official figures from French customs have revealed.
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Published: 02 March, 2017
For the first time in 20 years, Rioja wine export volumes to the UK have slumped, according to the most recent export figures for 2016
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Published: 22 February, 2017
Nyetimber's former head of sales, James Mason, wins his legal case against the English sparkling wine producer
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Published: 14 February, 2017
Loire, Burgundy and Rhone exports rose, but Champagne and Bordeaux slump fueled a 10% value drop in French wine exports to the UK in 2016
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Published: 02 February, 2017
Hallgarten (HDN) wines has announced a structural change of ownership with the company now owned directly by the Pieroth family of Burg Layen in Germany. The wine wholesaler based in Luton, was until December, a subsidiary of the Pieroth's family's holding company WIV Wein International.
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Published: 27 January, 2017
The emergence of the Sussex PDO and the forthcoming 'Vineyards of Hampshire' tasting in London in February, highlight a growing regional focus in the English and Wine Industry, as it continues the search for collective national names for both sparkling and still wines.
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Published: 11 January, 2017
The UK wine industry has urged the government to crack down on excise duty tax evasion carried out via the smuggling onto the UK commercial drinks market of duty-free wine.
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Published: 11 January, 2017
Burgundy's wine board, the BIVB, has approved its ambitious Cité des Vins de Bourgogne, a new wine tourism, culture and education centre that will be built on three sites in Beaune, Chablis and in the Mâcon.
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Published: 22 December, 2016
Cremant de Bordeaux sparkling wine is one of the clear winners of record new highs in overall Bordeaux wine production
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Published: 16 December, 2016
Barcelona wine producer Codorniu has launched a new high-end range of Cavas, including the most expensive Cava ever made
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Published: 16 December, 2016
Vega Sicilia is to increase its presence in Britain in a bid to capitalise on swelling demand for Spain and high end wines
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Published: 18 November, 2016
UK wine producers have urged the British government to maintain zero tariffs on wine and to establish a seasonal worker scheme ahead of Britain's departure from the European Union.
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Published: 18 October, 2016
Bibendum has issued a statement saying it has had to increase prices on certain products due to the unprecedented times caused by fall in the value of the pound
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Published: 17 October, 2016
The Bank of England warned of inflation rising beyond 2% on 14 October adding further concern to independent wine merchants who have already been forced to pass on price increases from suppliers to customers
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Published: 12 October, 2016
Rioja's wine board has hit back at plans to establish the new breakaway appellation, Vineyards of Alava, by saying new proposals for single estate vineyards and labels would aim to satisfy demands from producers
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Published: 12 October, 2016
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Published: 11 October, 2016
Two leading Rioja producers based in Alava have welcomed fresh details of plans tabled by the breakaway Vineyards of Alava appellation proposal including a move to distinguish itself by discarding Rioja's ageing categories of Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva.
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