A new initiative created with the aim of supporting UK growers and winemakers in their efforts to produce sustainable wines has been given an official name.
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Chapel Down Group has recruited a former retail channel controller at Treasury Wine Estates as its new sales director.
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Kent’s Gusbourne winery has won six gold medals in the WineGB Awards 2019, the UK wine industry’s national competition.
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Wine GB has moved its annual trade tasting from its traditional springtime to the autumn, with this year’s event taking place 4th September.
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Winetraders has expanded its listings with the addition of English sparkling wine producer Exton Park.
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Nyetimber has been named as the first ever English sparkling wine partner to Cowdray Park Polo Club.
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Exton Park has unveiled ambitious expansion plans including the construction of a 'temple of wine’, Harpers has learned.
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Plumpton College has announced that Dr Greg Dunn, currently programme manager for its MSc in Viticulture & Oenologye, will take over as curriculum manager for the wine division when Chris Foss retires later this month.
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Denbies Wine Estate has released a sparkling Bacchus made using the traditional method, which it claims to be the first of its kind to be produced in this way in the UK.
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Experimentation is the key to unlocking the potential of Bacchus, which is fast becoming a “flag bearer” for English wine, industry experts have said.
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Nyetimber has launched a new marketing campaign designed to communicate the “authenticity, elegance and grace” of the sparkling English wine brand across the summer.
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Chapel Down has announced a 10% increase in total annual sales to £13 million boosted by a record-breaking harvest.
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Wine of Great Britain (Wine GB) has confirmed around three million vines have been planted so far this year - equating to an additional 690 hectares of vineyards and a 24% increase in the overall land now under vine.
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Chapel Down has released its first sparkling Bacchus version.
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Furleigh Estate will release a new range of super-premium sparkling wines to coincide with English Wine Week, which takes place between Saturday 25 May and Sunday 2 June.
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Ridgeview CEO Tamara Roberts and her team welcomed HRH Duchess of Cornwall yesterday for a tour of the estate as part of a Royal visit to cultural and gastronomic hot spots in East Sussex.
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England’s winemakers scooped 11 Gold, 50 Silver and 60 Bronze medals in the International Wine Challenge (IWC), placing it ninth in the medals table. Ten of England’s 11 Gold medals were awarded to sparkling wines.
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Waitrose has expanded its English wine menu with seven new offerings, including its first homegrown ‘orange’ wine.
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The London Wine Fair’s boss has come out in defence of the decision to charge certain visitors to this year’s show, saying the decision came from consultations with “several long-standing exhibitors, who were aggrieved that competitive businesses were not taking a stand yet attending the show en masse with a view to trading”.
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A Sussex estate has chosen to bottle its leftover grapes as an Italian-style fizz after last year’s super harvest meant producers were left with grapes still hanging on the vine.
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