The British Retail Consortium has brought together a string of household -name retailers – from supermarkets to clothing, DIY to homewares – to make a series of industry-wide environmental pledges for the next five years. ...
More depressing than the sight of Coco the Clown being elected London mayor has been the latest indication that the middlemen in the UK wine industry are finding life very tough indeed. ...
In the current economic climate, supermarkets are battling for market share. Despite their efforts to help curb binge-drinking, in practice they will continue to implement very aggressive promotional programmes which will have a far greater impact on consumption. ...
Bordeaux 2007 was about as good as it could be, given the dreadful growing season. It was never going to be as good as 2005 and, for once, no one has pretended otherwise. ...
Having just delivered my 37th and final book on wine to my publisher – and earlier this year resigned from the Circle of Wine Writers on the grounds, firstly, of boredom and, secondly, that the raising of the annual membership fee...
