Top selling French brand Calvet has renewed its partnership with Michelin-starred chef Glynn Purnell, with several new initiatives in the pipeline for autumn.
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Manchester-based bottler Kingsland Drinks has announced high-level executive changes to devote greater focus on its “strategic development and business direction”.
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West London’s Bimber distillery is to release a premium small-batch, single-malt whisky.
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The release of a new whisky and gin brand is sure to cause excitement both above and below stairs in the nation’s country houses.
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London-based Benchmark Drinks has won new finance to fund international expansion.
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Profits at Treasury Wine Estates leapt 16% over the last year, driven by the group’s focus on premiumisation.
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Harpers and California Wine Institute hosted an insightful and far-reaching seminar at London’s Design Museum, delivering the core message that the wine world is well-placed to better engage consumers in supporting the true costs of advancing sustainability. Andrew Catchpole reports
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Wine has beaten beer and spirits to become the favoured tipple of UK drinkers, according to a new survey of 2,000 consumers from Yougov.
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Soave is making a comeback thanks to a new Summer of Soave campaign.
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As the first half of 2019 draws to a close, Harpers asked key trade figures to highlight the current challenges, ongoing trends and opportunities
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Working together with Wines Direct, Harpers brings you the results of a huge survey into Britain’s wine-buying habits. Lisa Riley reports
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“Phew. What A Scorcher!” I’m old enough to remember June 1976, when we had 15 consecutive days above 32°C. The Sun’s headline captured some of the excitement I felt as a teenager. In those days British summers were frequently cool, overcast affairs and all of a sudden Kent felt like the Costa Brava. What was scorching then seems almost temperate now. Last week Cambridge sweated through the second hottest day ever at 38.1°C, just behind Faversham’s UK record of 38.5°C in August 2003.
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The 11 finalists due to compete in the Wines of South Africa Sommelier Cup competition have been unveiled.
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The sale of Majestic Wine to US private equity firm Fortress has been confirmed.
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Scotch whisky must retain its current protected status if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, Fergus Ewing, the Scottish government’s secretary for the rural economy, has said.
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Bacardi and Brown-Forman are to end their UK collaboration, the companies have revealed.
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Despite falling wine import volumes, China continues to mature as a market, according to the latest country report from Wine Intelligence.
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The apertivo movement continued to spread across Europe and the rest of the world in the first half of 2019, according to Campari’s latest results.
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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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Sales of gin continue to boost spirits sales at Diageo, as Tanqueray and Gordon’s clock yet another year of double digit growth.
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