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What made you come to a small, hard-to-get-to village in the West Country?
Well I should still be organising events at Glyndebourne, Royal Ascot and the Cheltenham Gold Cup, as an operations director at Compass, but the managing director and I fell out. I was empowered to do exactly what he wanted me to do. We knocked spots off each other for three years, so I walked out. I trained as a chef in the '60s, and having seen so many restaurants done so badly, I thought I could do better. I waited for my wife, Sonia, to retire, and we came down here. We looked at a few places in Cornwall, but that seemed a bit far away, so in the end we picked up this place from the chef Martin Hadden, who was moving on to Ockendon Manor. It was a tough act to follow. He had a Michelin star, but the Good Food Guide has just given us five stars, so we're moving in the right direction.
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Enotria Winecellars has appointed Simon Treanor as its new on-trade sales director.
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By Ron Emler
Wines and spirits played a large part in increasing sales and profits at LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company, in the first half of 2006.
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Sainsbury's is massively expanding the number wines available in its online store due to huge growth' in orders.
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Somerfield is preparing to launch 80 new wines. The major multiple launched a half-price wine sale last month, and this will continue while stocks of the wines to be phased out remain on the shelves.
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Argentinian wine importer Vinos Wines is launching its first three brands in time for the Wines of Argentina tasting.
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The Grand Jury Europen (GJE) is to host a tasting comparing Napa and Bordeaux wines, as a rival tasting to the 30th anniversary of the Judgement of Paris tasting.
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Charles Back, owner of the Fairview winery, has decided that he will no longer be seeking distribution for his Goats do Roam wines in the UK multiples, with the entire range moving over to on-trade and independent specialist Liberty Wines.
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A quick look at the statistics, and where's the problem? In the UK off-trade, Australia has the number-one spot wrapped up, with a 24% market share by value and 21% by volume.
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It has become one of wine's most discussed topics - seminar after seminar, article after article and speech after speech have tried to tackle the subject of why France, still the second-biggest supplier to the UK market, has failed to produce hard' brands that can compete with the New World's branded wine juggernauts.
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BEIRUT: In early August, at the height of the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Illi Adato, an Israeli wine-culture promoter, proposed a wine tasting in London at Vinopolis on 16 August.
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In the run-up to Diageo's annual results, the shares outperformed the London market, but when the figures revealed an 11% rise in pre-tax profits, they dropped by almost 3%, writes Ron Emler.
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By Sarah Ahmed
Dr Thandi Ndlovu, a former non-executive director of Wines of South Africa (WOSA) and a second-term trustee of the South African Wine Industry Trust (SAWIT), is to succeed Gavin Pieterse (who recently resigned due to conflicts of interest) as chair of SAWIT. SAWIT was created in 1999 and is responsible for facilitating black economic empowermenT(BEE) within the South African wine industry.
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When you think of learning about winemaking you think of Bordeaux, UC Davis in California, Geisenheim in Germany, Roseworthy, South Australia.
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Until recently it was almost impossible to have a trade discussion about Argentinian wine without the subject of a generic office - or, more precisely, the lack of one - being mentioned.
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In another sign that the Australian grape glut is starting to bite harder, Tandou has announced that it will exit the wine business as soon as it can find a buyer for its winery and popular Broken Earth brand. The company said it wanted to concentrate its efforts on fruit growing and cotton farming, which are more profitable.
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Hunter Valley winemaker Bruce Tyrrell has been honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen's birthday honours list.
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The Institute of Masters of Wine has welcomed seven new members into its ranks, including the youngest-ever Master of Wine (MW) and the first Finnish MW.
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The former managing director of Western Wines, Mike Paul, has joined the recently formed HR consultancy and headhunting firm Match Consultants as a non-executive director.
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Simon Thorpe MW has taken the newly created position of vice president, premium wine sales and wine purchasing for Constellation Europe.
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