June tasting events
June 12-14
Read more...The major multiples are jubilant over sparkling wine sales this bank holiday, with M&S reporting its biggest-ever week for bubbles, Waitrose seeing English wines sales soar 96% and Asda recording an 85% jump in Champagne.
Read more...UK wine trebled sales and outperformed all other countries in May, for retailer Waitrose.
Read more...The Jubilee bank holiday weekend boosted bar and restaurant coffers as operators cashed in on the British theme and English sparkling wines soared.
The lower-alcohol wine category will reach a natural cap due to consumer reluctance to try lighter style products, new research has indicated.
Read more...A Ramsgate Brewery beer, Dark Conspiracy has breached alcohol responsibility rules for featuring East End gangsters, the Kray twins on its pump clips.
Read more...The prestige London on-trade is proving a particularly resilient part of the market for Mentzendorff.
Read more...The lower-alcohol wine category will reach a natural cap due to consumer reluctance to try lighter style products, new research has indicated.
Read more...The prestige London on-trade is proving a particularly resilient part of the market for Mentzendorff.
Read more...When someone tells you they're playing music to their vines to encourage growth you'd be forgiven for thinking that they've gone a bit doolally. Could this be one step too far in the pursuit of vinous perfection?
Read more...Jacob's Creek has declared 2012 one of the best vintages in recent memory.
Read more...Pernod Ricard UK has recreated the 1960s Yellow Spot Single Pot Still Irish whiskey as part of its continued commitment to reinvigorate the category.
Read more...The Provence Wines Council has set itself a mission of making the UK the second most important export market for Provence wines behind the US.
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The events as they happen on day two of the London International Wine Fair at ExCel.
BRIC markets will grow their red wine sales by 80% in the next five years - according to Euromonitor's Spiros Malandrakis.
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Glenfarclas is introducing a limited edition 58-year-old whisky, the oldest it has ever produced.
Wine agency Stevens Garnier will be holding portfolio tastings in Bristol, London and Manchester next month.
Read more...Urban Leisure Group is to open Central & Co, a brasserie and bar that aims to focus on sparkling wine.
Read more...Matthew Clark has launched brand agency Catalyst Brands on the back of its independent arm the Wine Studio Agency, which it launched in 2010.
Read more...Gonzalez Byass will release an especially intense blend of Tio Pepe En Rama sherry in May.