Loire Valley sparklers herald UK uplift
Published: 02 July, 2020
Loire Valley fizz has enjoyed a surge in exports to the UK, with Crémant de Loire having jumped just shy of 50%.
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Jerry Lockspeiser: When the only certainty is uncertainty
Published: 28 May, 2020
As I sat down to write this piece my phone rang. It was Nick, a winemaker and one of my oldest friends. We have been close since the early 1990s when he gambled his career on joining my incipient wine business. Its subsequent success was in no small part down to him.
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Alcohol to not rebound globally until 2024
Published: 26 May, 2020
It will take five years for the global alcohol category to get back to pre-Covid health, the IWSR has predicted, with double digit declines expected to the hit the category this year.
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Demand for US and Italian wines leads fine wine investment spike
Published: 26 May, 2020
BI, the fine wine and spirits merchant, has reported something of a boom in its fine wine sales during the era of coronavirus, with sales of both US and Italian wine leading the pack.
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Alcohol weathers Covid-19 peaks and troughs to become second highest food and drink growth category
Published: 20 May, 2020
Alcohol has weathered the storm of the coronavirus, new figures show, beating packaged foods and other beverages to see a 25% uplift in value sales since the beginning of lockdown.
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Porto Protocol’s online climate debate puts bottle weight in the crosshairs
Published: 11 May, 2020
Does glass have a place in the world of tomorrow as the main container of wine – and do consumers even want a glass bottle anyway?
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Wine sales in US maintain pre-pandemic levels
Published: 06 May, 2020
Wine sales in the US have nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels after an early spike in online sales, according to a new US Covid-19 Impact Report from Wine Intelligence.
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French wines weaken on fine-wine market
Published: 01 April, 2020
France’s premier wine regions continue to weaken on the fine-wine market, according to the first-quarter 2020 trading data released this morning by Liv-ex.
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Michael Broadbent MW passes away
Published: 18 March, 2020
Harpers has learned of the sad passing of critic and auctioneer Michael Broadbent MW, who has died, aged 92.
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WSTA in pan UK-EU talks to ensure GIs protected post Brexit
Published: 13 March, 2020
By January 2021, when Brexit comes into force, WSTA, the UK’s drinks lobby group, will no longer be a member of the pan-European wine trade body, CEEV. But ahead of further UK-EU trade talks, the two bodies are uniting once more to lobby for the continued smooth trade of wine across the English Channel.
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Austria wine exports hit record high
Published: 13 March, 2020
Austria’s wine industry posted record export growth figures in 2019 by both value and volume.
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Subscriber offer: 40% off Classic Wine Library books
Published: 13 March, 2020
Until the end of March, Harpers subscribers can get 40% off all books in The Classic Wine Library by visiting http://bit.ly/BuyClassics and using the code CWLHARP40 at checkout (postage is free within the UK, other postage rates vary). Customers in the US and Canada can use the same code at http://bit.ly/BuyClassicsUS.
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Yellow Tail and Casillero del Diablo continue dominance of global power list
Published: 09 March, 2020
Australia and Chile have once again topped Wine Intelligence’s list of the world’s power brands, with Yellow Tail and Casillero del Diablo holding onto their spots in first and second place for the third year in a row.
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Hard seltzers: High hopes for a new low
Published: 25 February, 2020
In the US, sales of hard seltzers are rocketing like gin, while hitting a low-alcohol, health-conscious sweet spot that might be perfect for the UK market too. Jo Gilbert charts a category on the rise
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Top Selection wins entire Duckhorn range
Published: 25 February, 2020
London-based wine merchant Top Selection is to distribute the whole portfolio of US producer Duckhorn in the UK.
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ABS makes first foray into Washington State
Published: 19 February, 2020
Awin Barratt Siegel Wine Agencies (ABS) has made its first foray into Washington State with an own-label wine from the Yakima Valley AVA.
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Coronavirus and US tariffs uncertainty hit Bordeaux's share of trade
Published: 17 February, 2020
Bordeaux’s share of trade fell to a record low last week with sales hit by Coronavirus and US tariffs uncertainty.
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SWA reiterates urgency of resolving transatlantic trade dispute as US tariff remains
Published: 17 February, 2020
The Scottish Whisky Association (SWA) has called on the EU, US and UK to "redouble their efforts" to resolve transatlantic trade disputes quickly to enable Scotch and American whiskies to revert to tariff-free trading.
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Southern hemisphere wines to receive post-Brexit boost
Published: 10 February, 2020
Wines from the southern hemisphere will thrive most in post-Brexit Britain, according to the latest Wine Trade Monitor from food-and-drink communications agency Sopexa.
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TWE slashes growth predictions as US business stalls
Published: 29 January, 2020
Treasure Wine Estates (TWE) has cut its predictions of growth for 2020 from between 15% and 20% to between 5% and 10% after its first half-year figures were released yesterday.
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