The Interview: David Baker
Published: 23 July, 2008
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Photography: Tristan Newkey-Burden
Wine sales boom
Published: 23 July, 2008
Wine consumption in the UK has risen by almost a quarter in the past five years, according to research group Mintel. This 23% uplift in consumption contrasts sharply with former wine-drinking stalwarts Italy, France and Germany, which have seen consumption drop 2%, 6% and 11% respectively.
Read more...King of Beaujolais' faces fraud investigation
Published: 23 July, 2008
Joseph Berkmann has angrily denied allegations that Georges Duboeuf topped up his best wines with inferior ones.
The chairman of Berkmann Wine Cellars, the sole UK agent for Duboeuf, issued a statement refuting the allegations, and claimed that national newspaper reports were based on inaccurate' stories in the French press, which had ubsequently
been withdrawn.
La Gitana for Mentzendorff
Published: 23 July, 2008
Bodegas Hidalgo-La Gitana, the Sherry house responsible for La Gitana Manzanilla, has joined the Mentzendorff portfolio in an exclusive arrangement.
Read more...It's a rap
Published: 23 July, 2008
Standing on the banks of the tranquil river Charente by Chteau Courvoisier in Jarnac, who would have thought that the fortunes of the Cognac category could have been turned around by a handful of American hip-hop artists? After years in the doldrums, along with the likes of whisky, adrift while the white spirits - vodka, white rum and tequila - continued their seemingly inexorable rise, Cognac finally received the sort of ringing endorsement that money just can't buy - not even with the big budgets of LVMH (Hennessy); Seagram, now Pernod Ricard (Martell); and Allied Domecq, now Fortune Brands (Courvoisier).
Read more...PLB buys L&T
Published: 23 July, 2008
PLB Group, the own-label wine specialist, has bought wine company Lane & Tatham for an undisclosed sum.
East Sussex-based PLB - which has tried hard in recent years to increase its presence in the branded-wine sector - now moves into fine wines for the first time. Lane & Tatham will continue to run as a separate business, operating as the fine-wine subsidiary of the company.
New WoA MD ready to prove he's worth it
Published: 23 July, 2008
The new managing director of Wines of Argentina (WoA) is Fernando Farr.
Farr has a marketing background, and worked with L'Oral for nearly eight years, both in Argentina and abroad. He replaces marketing manager Bernardo Hoffmann.
Cinema for Hardys
Published: 23 July, 2008
Hardys, the UK's number-one off-trade wine brand, is set to launch a new cinema advertising campaign later this month under the Best Wine Under The Sun' campaign positioning launched at the end of 2004.
Read more...Ice wine for Hallgarten
Published: 23 July, 2008
Hallgarten has taken on the agency for one of Canada's leading Icewine producers, Pelee Island Winery in Ontario.
Screwcap wines akin to alcopops'
Published: 23 July, 2008
Philosopher, writer and composer Roger Scruton has heavily criticised screwcapped wines, claiming they reduce wine to an alcopop'.
Read more...Triple-distilled Islay malt from Bruichladdich
Published: 23 July, 2008
Islay distillery Bruichladdich is to launch an 84.5% abv whisky - the first triple-distilled Islay malt for more than 300 years.
Read more...Highbank for IVINI
Published: 23 July, 2008
IVINI Ltd, the specialist importer and wholesaler of wine to the UK on-trade and independent retailers, has added the Highbank 2001 Coonawarra Red to its premium-wine portfolio.
Read more...Collache leaves Sopexa UK
Published: 23 July, 2008
Sopexa UK's managing director Franois Collache has left the promotions group after nine years in the role.
Read more...Unwins boss tries to rally troops
Published: 23 July, 2008
The new owner of Unwins, DM Private Equity, has sent a morale-boosting letter to all staff, in a bid to improve the multiple specialist's fortunes.
Read more...Platter's five-star wines announced
Published: 23 July, 2008
A total of 11 wines have been awarded the coveted five-star rating in the 2006 John Platter South African Wine Guide.
Read more...Nielsen to include three Ms' data
Published: 23 July, 2008
Leading marketing information gatherer AC Nielsen is to include full EPOS data from Majestic, Morrisons, Marks & Spencer, and Unwins for the first time.
BVI ceases trading
Published: 23 July, 2008
Wine investment company Bordeaux Vintners Ltd, trading as BVI, has ceased trading. Tim Dunton, the sole director, wrote to investors on 22 July telling them that not all the wine they had paid for was available due to the failure of one of his suppliers.
Port family sues over stolen' land
Published: 23 July, 2008
The British Government is being sued for 14 million by a British family which made its name in the Port trade.
Read more...Festival-goers prefer English fizz to Champagne'
Published: 23 July, 2008
The organiser of the English Wine and Regional Food Festival claims that top English sparklers like RidgeView and Nyetimber are equal to if not better than the best Champagnes.
Hungary like the wolf
Published: 23 July, 2008
Hungary is the most significant producer of wine among both new EU states and the next-round hopefuls, Bulgaria and Romania. Even though the country has only 87,000 hectares (ha) of vineyards, compared to just under 90,000ha of Vitis vinifera in Romania and a similar area in Bulgaria, its wine production dwarfs that of its neighbours at some 4.8 million hectolitres in 2004 (Romania produced around 3.4 million hl and Bulgaria just 1.4 million hl in the same year). In spite of this, Hungary's reputation as a wine-producing nation has fallen off most consumers' radar (if it was ever really there).
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