Bordeaux harvest: day 13
Published: 23 July, 2008
With picking finished, Alexandra Martet at Chateau Lavison in Entre-Deux-Mers has now moved into the winery.
Read more...Hennessy to auction Cognac Mathusalem
Published: 23 July, 2008
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.
Record number of visitors attend WoSA
Published: 23 July, 2008
UK: Record numbers of visitors attended Wines of South Africa's (WoSA) Mega tasting on October 8-9.
Health group campaigns for ban on cheap supermarket deals
Published: 23 July, 2008
UK: Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) said banning cheap supermarket deals would help cut excessive drinking in Scotland
Choppers fight frost in New Zealand
Published: 23 July, 2008
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.
Retailer takes wine by canal
Published: 23 July, 2008
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...New venue for Australia tastings
Published: 23 July, 2008
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...New directive for Tesco wine suppliers
Published: 23 July, 2008
Supermarket giant Tesco is introducing new packaging requirements for its wine suppliers.
Read more...Remy Cointreau reports 5.7% sales rise
Published: 23 July, 2008
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.
Tesco launches retail-ready' packaging
Published: 23 July, 2008
The supermarket plans to roll-out 600 of its wines packed in 'retail-ready' packaging by February next year.
Middle-class wine drinkers risk their health
Published: 23 July, 2008
Teenage binge-drinkers are not the only abusers of alcohol. A new study finds the middle-classes are also over-indulging
Read more...Cloudy Bay spices it up
Published: 23 July, 2008
New Zealand producer Cloudy Bay is to launch its 2004 Gewurztraminer via its online search facility, Cloudy Bay Locator.
Read more...A third of UK Wine consumers choose Rioja
Published: 23 July, 2008
Rioja is the wine region most likely to convert consumer awareness into sales
Read more...Legal drinking age should be lowered
Published: 23 July, 2008
UK: Lowering the legal drinking age could help tackle the country's binge culture
Read more...Drinks companies back Fairtrade in 2008
Published: 23 July, 2008
Leading retailers and drinks companies will take part in Fairtrade fortnight in February 2008, which will be entitled Change Today. Choose Fairtrade.
Read more...Bordeaux harvest: day 12
Published: 23 July, 2008
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 abuse on the rise
Published: 23 July, 2008
Alcohol-related hospital admissions have risen sharply in the past five years, new figures show.
Read more...British supermarkets not green enough
Published: 23 July, 2008
New survey says supermarkets are showing signs of becoming environmentally friendly but have not yet gone far enough.
Chilean wines show strong growth
Published: 23 July, 2008
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.
Wine world atlas includes China and India
Published: 23 July, 2008
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.
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