Bordeaux harvest: day 13
With picking finished, Alexandra Martet at Chateau Lavison in Entre-Deux-Mers has now moved into the winery.
Read more...With picking finished, Alexandra Martet at Chateau Lavison in Entre-Deux-Mers has now moved into the winery.
Read more...IRELAND: Hennessy to fly-in the world's first-ever Cognac Mathusalem to be auctioned at Roberto De Niro's Nobu restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin.
UK: Record numbers of visitors attended Wines of South Africa's (WoSA) Mega tasting on October 8-9.
UK: Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) said banning cheap supermarket deals would help cut excessive drinking in Scotland
New Zealand: 100 helicopters flew frost protection missions in the Marlborough's grape country on Thursday night in what wine growers say was one of the toughest frosts they have faced.
This week Tesco has announced a move which will see more than 41 million bottles of wine transported by canal boat in the next year.
Read more...Wine Australia has annnounced its 2008 annual tasting will move to Arsenal's Emirates stadium, London, and will take place over one day rather than two.
Read more...Supermarket giant Tesco is introducing new packaging requirements for its wine suppliers.
Read more... FRANCE: French wines and spirits group Remy Cointreau reported a 5.7% rise in first-half sales and has reaffirmed it expected significant growth in full-year operating profit.
The supermarket plans to roll-out 600 of its wines packed in 'retail-ready' packaging by February next year.
Teenage binge-drinkers are not the only abusers of alcohol. A new study finds the middle-classes are also over-indulging
Read more...New Zealand producer Cloudy Bay is to launch its 2004 Gewurztraminer via its online search facility, Cloudy Bay Locator.
Read more...Rioja is the wine region most likely to convert consumer awareness into sales
Read more...UK: Lowering the legal drinking age could help tackle the country's binge culture
Read more...Leading retailers and drinks companies will take part in Fairtrade fortnight in February 2008, which will be entitled Change Today. Choose Fairtrade.
Read more...Alexandra Martet from Chateau Lavison, Entre-Deux-Mers has at last concluded the harvest, and all the evidence suggests it's not as bad as she first feared.
Alcohol-related hospital admissions have risen sharply in the past five years, new figures show.
Read more...New survey says supermarkets are showing signs of becoming environmentally friendly but have not yet gone far enough.
Wines of Chile is to focus on Sauvignon Blanc and Ros - the two fastest growing sectors of the UK wine market - at its annual trade tastings to be held in Manchester and London this week.
The names of the world's most renowned wine-producing areas has been officially redrawn to include countries such as China, India, Georgia, Canada, New Mexico and Belgium.