Published: 28 February, 2020
The realisation first occurred in Ho Chi Minh City, after a charming waitress at 'The Garlik' restaurant produced a concise wine list. The restaurant was full of middle-class Vietnamese – and a handful of tourists – most of whom were drinking wine. I observed a similar scenario one week later, at Riedel's bar-cum-restaurant in central Bangkok. The sommelier was proselytising the virtues of white Burgundy – one of the many bottles contained in a wall-mounted enomatic machine - to a young Thai couple. I left the restaurant convinced that due to the media's powerful China obsession, the potential of these cultures to love wine was being grossly underreported.
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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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Published: 10 February, 2020
Wines from the Bourgogne region grew last year by both volume and value in the key Hong Kong market – even as French wine exports fell overall.
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Published: 05 February, 2020
Global exports of Australian wine continued to grow in value during 2019, up 3% to A$ 2.91bn over the previous year.
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Published: 29 January, 2020
Whisky industry bodies on both sides of the Atlantic have issued a joint call for their respective governments to stop using tariffs on whisky as a proxy battle in unrelated trade disputes.
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Published: 28 January, 2020
Hattingley Valley has secured a £7.5m finance facility from PNC Business Credit to support its continued growth plans.
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Published: 20 January, 2020
UK bound exports of wines from Washington State has jumped 37% in the past five years, according to new data from the Washington State Wine Commission.
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Published: 11 December, 2019
US tariffs on wine and whisky are driving the market in Cognac, a leading UK supplier has revealed.
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Published: 10 December, 2019
Sales of UK spirits to China are up 35.5% year-on-year in the first half of 2019, a new report from the Food and Drink Federation has revealed.
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Published: 30 October, 2019
Australia’s wine exports grew 7% by value in the 12 months to 30 September 2019 to AU$2.89bn, Wine Australia has revealed.
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Published: 18 October, 2019
The 25% tariff on the import of Scottish single-malt whisky to the US, which came into force last night, will lose the industry 20% of its US exports in the first year, the Scotch Whisky Association has estimated.
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Published: 19 September, 2019
Surrey-based drinks producer GinKing has won a £90k export order from a US wine merchant.
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Published: 10 September, 2019
English and Welsh vineyards are joining forces to promote their wines and are on track to meet an export value of £350m in 20 years’ time. Lisa Riley reports
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Published: 19 August, 2019
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 Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has reported a 10.7% year on year increase in the exports of UK food and drink to £5.8bn for the first quarter of 2019, boosted by strong performances from whisky, gin and wine.
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Exports of Beaujolais to the UK rose 35% in volume and 9% in value year on year from February 2019, according to InterBeaujolais.
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A leading figure in South African wine has issued a stark warning about the industry's future.
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English and Welsh wines are on a real roll, and not just at home. Exports are expected to rise significantly over the next few years, reports Lisa Riley
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Published: 25 March, 2019
Overall UK food and drinks exports slowed to a crawl in 2018, but gin and whisky continued to fly the flag – each growing in both value and volume.
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Published: 06 March, 2019
The English and Welsh wine industry produced a record-breaking amount of wine last year thanks to a frost-free spring and a long, mostly dry summer.
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