The rise in independent merchants looking at the hybrid model and offering a drink-in option to complement traditional off-trade sales has seen the landscape change in recent years.
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The Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) has reported its highest ever annual candidate figures for the last academic year.
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Cognac has reported export growth for the fifth year in a row. Shipments were up 6.9% in value and 2.5% in volume for the year ending 31 July 2019, the region’s governing body has revealed.
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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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Sales at Suffolk-based drinks group Adnams fell 2% year-on-year in the first half of 2019.
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Wine continues to struggle in the on-trade where promiscuous consumers are seeking out “new and different”. How the category can overcome these pressures was the topic of a CGA presentation at the first in a new series of breakfast briefings held by the WSTA. Jo Gilbert reports
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Diageo has formed a 50/50 joint venture with Corporación Cuba Ron which gives it exclusive global distribution rights to Cuban rum brand Santiago de Cuba.
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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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It is a tumultuous time to be a smaller tequila producer. External forces are a mixture of positive market growth and negative trade tensions, including rising supply costs (agave, in 2018, was up 571% since 2016), fuel shortages engendered by pipeline pirates and fraying civil structure in the main production area of Jalisco. Against this background ‘adaptation’ is the keyword for the smaller producer.
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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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The value of the total gin category has hit £3bn suggesting that the gin bubble has yet to burst.
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Suffolk gin brand Fishers is to launch in a new bottle size with redesigned branding.
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The crackdown on counterfeit whisky has a new ally: an artificial ‘tongue’ developed by scientists from the University of Glasgow.
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Storywood in Scotland has unveiled its core range of aged tequilas.
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Craft spirits start-up Top Beverages has unveiled its first two products, tapping into two key growth categories - rum and gin.
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New Generation Wines has appointed James McKenna to the newly created position of sales & marketing director.
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Whisky specialist Milroys Soho has revealed it is opening its second permanent residence in a townhouse within the heart of Spitalfields.
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Amathus Drinks is to hold its first wines and spirits portfolio tasting event this autumn.
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Gin is at a crossroads and needs to tread carefully to retain its authentic credentials. Andrew Catchpole listens in on the debate at Harpers Think Gin event.
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Many of the world’s leading spirits producers have partnered to create a new global organisation for the industry, it was announced in Geneva yesterday.
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