DMT Wine Imports - the joint venture between wholesaler Bordeaux Index and independent wine merchant The Cellar Door - will be giving the UK trade its first Barossa En Primeur' event later this year.
Read more...Fever-Tree, the company behind the self-styled world's first premium tonic water', has joined forces with ex-Plymouth Gin MD Charles Rolls.
Read more...Wine Relief, the fundraising arm of the wine trade that supports Comic Relief, has raised 2 million since its inception in 1999.
Read more...Jacques Roux, marketing and sales director of Graham Beck Wines in South Africa, is to leave the company after 15 years.
Read more...The slender, ribbon-like stretch of vineyards that falls between the jagged Vosges mountains and the Franco-German border is a tangle of contradictions.
Read more...Why did you become a sommelier?
Three specialist importers have combined forces for two trade tastings in September.
Read more...Residents of New York state will soon be able to buy wine direct from their favourite producers across America.
Read more...The International Wine & Spirit Competition has strengthened its marketing department.
Read more...Opal Bianca (38% abv), the younger sister of Opal Nera black sambuca, is to make its debut in the off-trade this summer.
Read more...Miranda Hayman, previously Senior Brands Manager at Hayman Barwell Jones, London, has relocated to Hong Kong to open up the first office outside the UK for sister company Hayman Distillers incorporating HBJ wines. Miranda takes up the newly created role of Director of Sales and Marketing Asia Pacific and will be responsible for expanding business in Asia for Hayman Distillers brands - including Hayman 1820, the first ever Gin Liqueur as well as developing global markets for HBJ's brand Firebird Legend from Moldova.
Read more...With the acquisition of Southcorp by Foster's now complete, the former managing director of Beringer Blass Wine Estates (BBWE), John Philips, has been given the task of leading the UK and European teams of the new expanded company, FGL Wine Estates.
2005 is already a landmark year for the International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC). In March, the company opened its new, customised premises in Dunsfold Park, Surrey, with a 25,000-bottle capacity and room for expansion.
When the Bordeaux growers admitted over recent years that they were in crisis, the Sauternes producers must have given a wry smile. They have always been in crisis, fashioning a wine that is universally admired but rarely purchased.
Read more...Hybrid grape Baco Blanc (Baco 22A) can continue to be used in Armagnac production after an INAO ruling.
Read more...Floridita has been named Best New Bar at the London Club and Bar Awards.
Read more...Washington State's king of Merlot' has taken a swipe at the poor-quality Californian Merlot which he believes
has resulted in the damning reference in the film Sideways.
Washington State got its strategy wrong last time it tried to break into the UK market, according to the returning executive director, Steve Burns, but it is back to try again.
Read more...One of Italy's top architects is designing Piero and Lodovico Antinori's Maremma joint venture, Tenuta Campo di Sasso.
Read more...Industry watchdog The Portman Group has found a drinks company in breach of its code. Hot Shotz and Absinthe, produced by Pioneer International Drinks, were both found to be in breach.
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