The trade is facing renewed scrutiny over workplace culture, harassment, and discrimination, as new research published by Drinks United highlights significant shortcomings in employee treatment and reporting practices across the sector.
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The Kingsland Drinks Group has finalised a £65m funding package from Barclays, with support from consultancy firm RSM UK, as it looks to accelerate growth under new leadership.
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Leading charity The Drinks Trust is hosting a special fundraiser at Denham Golf Club on 21 May - an opportunity for trade professionals to channel their inner Tiger Woods.
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The trophy-winning wines from the third edition of the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards have been announced.
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Northern Italy’s Garda DOC is best known as an ‘umbrella’ appellation, overlapping territories such as Lugana, Bardolino, Valpolicella, Soave and six others besides, offering up a medley of varieties and styles from the surrounding Veneto vineyards. Created in 1996, it offers greater flexibility to producers than the historic regional DOCs and, as such, it is on the march, pushing two new styles of wine that the Consorzio believes will be an asset to the collective region.
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Those of us in the spirits world are well aware of the ‘booms’ that catapult a category to popularity. Gin enjoyed a mammoth one in the noughties; rum has been enjoying a similar (but steadier) one for the last decade. And I thoroughly hope that brandy will experience the same sort of cultural redemption arc – we just might have to work a little harder to get it.
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Loch Lomond Brewery-owned Levenbank Distillery has unveiled that its first ever scotch bottling is now up for pre-sale. The Dumbarton-based business’s inaugural single grain whisky will hit the market in 2029.
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St Andrews spirits producer Eden Mill Distillery has unveiled its new CEO, Steven Kersley (pictured). The appointment follows the October 2025 acquisition of the business by Ruby Capital, a Dundee-based private investment firm.
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The Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), due to be introduced in October next year, has been set at 20p.
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The wine and spirits sector has hit back against what the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) called “the UK's uniquely punitive excise duty regime”.
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Premium port company Fladgate Family Wines has declared 2024 vintages from three of its houses: Taylor’s, Fonseca, and Croft.
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Auction house Sotheby’s and The Distillers’ Charity have announced the extension of their partnership for the Distillers One of One Auction which is held biennially.
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Pernod Ricard-owned Cognac house Martell has launched an AI-powered ‘virtual bartender’, claiming to be the first brand in the category to do so.
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Next month (Friday 1 May) a new digital platform named the UK Vineyard Guide is set to launch. The website aims to be a discovery tool for those seeking to explore England and Wales’ wine regions, and over 1,100 vineyards.
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Wine and spirits merchant Jeroboams has announced the addition of Australian estate Yarra Yering to its portfolio.
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This summer, organisations across the UK wine industry will take part in ‘The Curious Vines Change Series’, a number of initiatives created by the organisation which aim to create practical, collective action on inclusivity.
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Campari Group has announced the launch of Aperol Spritz TO GO, a ready-to-drink (RTD) version of the popular cocktail.
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A new study from UK-based card payment provider Dojo has found that hospitality businesses’ operating costs have been hit harder by inflation than any other sector over the past decade.
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Widely respected UK trade figure John Hutton has passed away, having had a long and illustrious career with some of the top names in the business.
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At Shoreditch’s buzzy Legado, Olga Verde (pictured), technical director of La Rioja Alta-owned Rías Baixas estate Lagar de Fornelos, guided Harpers through the winery’s latest vintages. This included the second vintage of the super-premium Lindeiros wine, which highlighted the ageability of these whites from this region.
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