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Published: 27 February, 2015
Last week's Premiere Napa Valley barrel tasting and live auction, held at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Saint Helena, set the stage for bidding on a unique and highly-selective range of the appellation's finest wines resulting in a new record of $6 million USD in fundraising for local charities.
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Published: 27 February, 2015
Diageo is launching a 'smart bottle' that will enable it to send personalised marketing message to its consumers after purchase.
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Published: 27 February, 2015
Diageo is launching a 'smart bottle' that will enable it to send personalised marketing message to its consumers after purchase.
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Published: 27 February, 2015
The Wine & Spirit Trade Association's Call Time On Duty campaign, which helped see the end of the duty escalator on wine and spirits in last year's Budget, has won a prestigious national public relations award.
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Published: 27 February, 2015
Peter McAtamney, principal at research body, Wine Business Solutions, gives his personal assessment on how best to drive and build a wine brand in the UK on-trade with a particular nod to Kleine Zalze, which has been named number one South African brand in its latest 2014 Wine On-Premise report,and Matthew Clark which is reaping the rewards of an astute wine listing strategy
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Published: 27 February, 2015
Cîroc vodka is set to be the first alcohol brand to launch paid for advertising on Instagram, as it kicks off a six week campaign today.
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Published: 27 February, 2015
Treasury Wine Estates has seen profits tumble nearly 60% - but boss Michael Clarke insists the company is making progress in "resetting" the troubled business.
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Published: 27 February, 2015
American wine giant, E& J Gallo, is continuing its drive to appeal to so-called millennial consumers, with the UK launch of a low-alcohol and a fruit wine range which are targeted at drinkers who are currently intimidated by wine but aspire to drink it.
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Published: 27 February, 2015
Harpers is today repeating its calll out to independent wine merchants across the UK to lobby both their MP and local media to back the Drop the Duty campaign and invite both to their business so that they can hear their story for themselves.
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Published: 26 February, 2015
Hunters of Helmsley, the Yorkshire deli and fine wine merchants, is the 2015 winner of the Best Small Shop Competition.
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Published: 26 February, 2015
The deadline to enter the 2015 Harpers Awards has been extended by a weeek to March 6 to alllow extra time for the trade to collate their entries.
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Published: 26 February, 2015
The WSTA has welcomed the government's decision to scrap proposals for locally set licensing fees.
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Published: 26 February, 2015
Dan Jago, who was suspended from his role as Tesco's director of wine, spirits and beer at the height of the fallout from the £263 million shortfall in the retailer's profits, is being reinstated and will return to the retailer in a new role on March 9.
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Published: 26 February, 2015
Doctors and alcohol charities are calling on the government to reinstate the alcohol duty escalator in the Budget in March.
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Published: 26 February, 2015
With less than three weeks to go before the Budget, Miles Beale, chief executive of the Wine & Spirit Trade Association, has made an empassioned appeal to the industry to act now and get fully behind its campaign to persuade the Chancellor to cut alcohol duty by 2% in his March Budget.
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Published: 26 February, 2015
Brazilian wine sales in the UK have more than quadrupled over the last year following strong support from multiple retailers.
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Published: 26 February, 2015
Senior trade figures are rallying around the Drop the Duty campaign and urging everyone in the sector to play their part and lobby their MP to call on the Chancellor to cut alcohol duty rates by 2% in the March Budget.
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Published: 26 February, 2015
Conviviality Retail has signed a 10-year franchise agreement with award winning East Anglian-based convenience retailer, Jonathan James to run 35 franchise stores.
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Published: 25 February, 2015
Indian wine producer Soul Tree has raised more than £388,000 through crowdfunding, which it says will help it put Indian wines on the map.
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Published: 25 February, 2015
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