Romania’s largest wine exporter Cramele Recas is aiming to have 85% of its global sales in ultra-lightweight bottles by the end of 2026 – up from 5% in 2025.
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Multi-award winning Artelium is a wine estate based in East and West Sussex with two vineyards, one on clay soils and the other on pure chalk. Founded by Julie Bretland and Mark Collins, they began the project in 2014, planting the vineyards four years later and there are now around 27 hectares of vines. In 2022, they moved into their own winery and throughout their journey have been working with José Quintana, head winemaker at London urban winery, Vagabond.
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Importer Hatch Mansfield’s MD Ben Knollys (pictured at the London Wine Fair) is the newest member of The Drinks Trust’s board of trustees.
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London Wine Fair (LWF) has capped off another year, and the event’s new owner Vindustrious has reported that visitor numbers are up. This year saw 10,539 net attendees walk through the doors at Kensington Olympia up from 2025’s 9,741 (a +8.2% uplift).
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Crémant has recently seen rapid growth in the UK, driven by value-led premiumisation and an increasing interest in regional exploration, according to producer Grands Chais de France (GCF).
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VCT Europe, the European arm of leading wine producer Viña Concha y Toro (VCT), has launched ‘Out of Office’, a convenience-exclusive range of wines.
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Food and drinks insights company Lumina Intelligence has detailed that the ‘eating-out’ market is set to reach a value of £102.8bn this year, an increase of +1.8% year-on-year.
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Wine importer North South Wines has relocated to a new site within Bicester Motion, increasing its footprint by approximately 66%.
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In partnership with Harpers, Rioja Wine UK has launched Discover Rioja, an initiative designed to connect importers seeking new listings with high-quality wines from the region that currently lack representation in the UK.
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Wine & Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) chief executive Miles Beale used a platform at the opening of this year’s London Wine Fair (LWF) to call for an ongoing and urgent drink and hospitality industry reset with regard to lobbying government.
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International Wineries for Climate Action (IWCA) has partnered with Berry Bros. & Rudd (BBR) and The Wine Society to launch the Carbon Calculation Challenge 2026 – an initiative designed to help wineries measure their emissions.
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GBH-owned distributor Mangrove Global has partnered with organic whisky distillery Nc’nean as its UK distribution partner.
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New research released by investment platform WineCap shows that the motivations behind why investors are choosing fine wine have shifted over the past four years.
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The Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA) has repeated its call for the Scottish government to introduce a dedicated cabinet secretary or minister for tourism.
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Berry Bros. & Rudd (BBR) has become the exclusive UK partner of Vignoble des Cabottes, a newly established Burgundy estate which brings together a selection of vineyard holdings under the Bouchard Père et Fils label.
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Champagne Drappier unveiled its awaited new prestige cuvée Éclose 2012 in London this week, which has been a decade-and-a-half in its conception.
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Trade body Wine GB has unveiled its latest guide, in partnership with the Regenerative Viticulture Foundation (RVF). The creation of its regenerative viticulture guide comes in response to a growing interest among its members regarding the farming practice.
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Artelium Wine Estate has launched a “digital cellar door”, which will allow consumers to purchase wines directly from its website and have them delivered internationally.
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Vineyards lying alongside the Breede River in South Africa’s Western Cape have been devastated by severe flooding after the river burst its banks.
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Attendance figures revealed from this week’s BCB London (11-12 May) and April’s Edinburgh Bar Show (13-15 April) reveal that thousands of bar trade professionals passed through the events in the capital cities.
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