SPAR launches new range of vegan wines

SPAR has become the first UK grocer to market a range of private label vegan wines, including a vegan Prosecco and SPAR Vine & Bloom rosé.

Registrations now open for the Old Vine Conference 2021

The third edition of the Old Vine Conference will take place between 1-2 December and is now open for registrations.

The life aquatic for English wine

Domaine Jones launches Adopt an Old Vine scheme

Ex-pat Languedoc-Roussillon based winemaker Katie Jones is launching an ‘Adopt an Old Vine’ scheme, which will offer customers and followers the chance to become ‘vine parents’ to an old vine at Domaine Jones.

Tim Atkin MW: Valuing our old vines

Call it serendipity, call it fate, but there are times when events and conversations seem to align. You go for months without thinking about something and then it’s everywhere, filling your inbox and your brain. Spooky, possums, as Dame Edna Everage once put it.

Central Otago: Pinot spotlight

Central Otago is reaching a new maturity, as Andrew Catchpole discovers at its annual Pinot Noir Celebration.

Jascots lists Barbaresco producer Rivetti

London-based on-trade distributor Jascots has added organic Barbaresco and Barolo producer Massimo Rivetti to its list.

New Zealand winemakers prep for bicentenary celebrations

Not many wine regions can claim to know exactly when the first vine was planted in their country.

Red Squirrel and The Knotted Vine to merge

Specialist importers Red Squirrel and The Knotted Vine have announced they are merging to form a completely new importer and distributor supplying the UK’s restaurant and independent trade.

Albourne Estate bottles excess grapes for new frizzante

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.

Fladgate latest to announce back-to-back vintage declaration

Things are heating up in the Douro, with yet another port house following up 2016 with another vintage year.

Interview: Danny Lucchesi, Delicato Family

Viticulturalist Danny Lucchesi talks to Chris Wilson about special old vines, Zin and Gnarley Head

Meet the buyers: Gregory Andrews, D Vine Cellars

Hybrids that mix it up with wine and food spill the beans on how to juggle retail and in-house hospitality.

Flexibility and confidence key for advancing women in wine

Offering flexibility and encouragement, and supporting women-owned business were key to advancing women in the wine industry, the Women of the Vine & Spirits’ inaugural London symposium revealed.

Women of the Vine & Spirits makes inaugural visit to London with one-off event

A US organisation at the forefront of promoting gender parity in the industry is heading to London for the first time next month, for “first-of-its-kind” gathering in Europe.

The battle against frost

Frost is one of the greatest threats to wine producers. Jo Gilbert looks at the technology being developed to keep this unwanted vine visitor at bay