
Fox & Fox renews focus and steps up production
Fox & Fox has announced plans to double its capacity as part of a new strategy to focus expressly on "wine making and marketing".
Read more...Fox & Fox has announced plans to double its capacity as part of a new strategy to focus expressly on "wine making and marketing".
Read more...To the untrained eye, little has changed in the world of Champagne marketing. The Grande Marques, endowed with lavish budgets, continue to position themselves at the most glamorous events. Vintages are declared and the well-oiled marketing machine continues to roll.
Read more...Nicolas Feuillatte has pinpointed the burgeoning no/low category as a key rival for the Champagne market going forward.
Read more...About twenty years ago I tried to sell a sparkling wine from Italy that was almost unknown in the UK market. We were a significant supplier to the major retailers and worked closely with them on new product development ideas, from lesser known grape varieties, regions and countries, to new styles and packaging for better-known wines. My Italian sparkling wine was from a medium sized organic producer whose wines we had won listings for, but the buyers felt that it was not well known enough in our market and wouldn’t sell. It was, of course, Prosecco.
Read more...Aldi has chosen the Dorset-based Lyme Bay Winery to produce an English sparkling wine for its premium ‘Exquisite Collection’.
Read more...North South Wines has signed a distribution deal with Cava producer Vallformosa.
Read more...Rathfinny Wine Estate has announced a 19% increase in 2019 yield compared to last year’s harvest.
Read more...Freixenet is on the campaign trail with its first TV campaign across prime-time TV in years.
Read more...Consorzio of Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG has declared the 2019 harvest of “exceptional quality”, but said yields were down between 3% to 5%.
Read more...Harpers editor Andrew Catchpole will host a roundtable on sparkling wines at Mediterranean food and wine fair Bellavita next week.
Read more...Juvé & Camps has expressed its commitment to sustainability with the launch of the first organic certified vintage of its flagship premium Cava.
Read more...Cava is to target key markets UK and Belgium in the Christmas run up with a new initiative designed to raise awareness of its premium wines.
Read more...Chapel Down, the English sparkling wine, spirit and beer producer has reported sales of 21% for the first half of the year alongside increased losses as it forges ahead with vineyard expansion and investment.
Read more...Over the past decade, the UK sparkling wine market has increasingly become a tale of two sparklers.
Read more...Cava is to get a big promotional push in the run up to Christmas, its regulatory body has announced.
Read more...Wine GB has said it is confident it will hit its estimated £350m export target set for 2040 as exports doubles, albeit from a small platform.
Read more...A new report has suggested that English sparkling wine ticks all the right boxes to help reverse something of a slump in sales of sparkling wine over the past year – the first time this has happened in a decade.
Read more...Despite declining overall UK market share, Australia’s renewed dynamism is making headway in premium channels. James Lawrence reports
Read more...As the first half of 2019 draws to a close, Harpers asked key trade figures to highlight the current challenges, ongoing trends and opportunities
Read more...EWGA Wines has signed a deal with the Boizel family to become the exclusive on-trade UK distributor of the Champagne brand.
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