Wines of Germany announces fresh campaign
Published: 19 February, 2025
Wines of Germany UK has announced their 2025 campaign to promote wines from the country’s appellations.
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Gru-vee voyage: an ever-evolving style
Published: 19 February, 2025
Austria’s flagship grape variety is a sommelier favourite, and rightly so, with plenty to offer restaurant wine lists in terms of its broad range of styles and notable food friendliness. While it might not be quite the heyday for Grüner Veltliner in the UK on-trade that it once was, it’s a grape well worth exploring, particularly as it continues to evolve stylistically.
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Bibendum becomes exclusive distributor for Quinta da Pedra Alta
Published: 27 January, 2025
Leading Douro producer Quinta da Pedra Alta will now be distributed in the UK and Ireland via Bibendum. A portfolio of red and white table wines as well as a selection of Ports will be available to the on-trade under the Bibendum banner and to independent merchants via Walker & Wodehouse.
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Kiwi white sales lead UK Christmas market
Published: 16 January, 2025
New Zealand was the leading country of origin in the still white wine category for the four weeks leading up to 28 December 2024. Compared to the same period in 2023, value growth was up 7.3% while volume growth was up 9.7%.
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White hot: Demand for fizz pushes white production to its highest ever level
Published: 14 February, 2024
Global red wine supply and demand have significantly decreased in the last twenty years, while white wine has picked up the slack (along with rosé), largely due to the boom in sparkling wine in markets like the UK.
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Friday read: The Verdicchio Renaissance
Published: 03 November, 2023
The white wines made from Verdicchio in Italy’s central Marche region were once famous for lining the supermarket shelves in its recognisable hourglass shaped bottle. Often considered generic in style, the varietal has undergone a renaissance in recent years. Is it time to revisit verdant Verdicchio in all its forms?
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Symington launch pushes Douro’s white potential
Published: 27 February, 2023
Symington Family Estates has launched a new Douro white, Pequeno Dilema 2020, as part of what the company describes as its “mission” to demonstrate that Port’s vineyards can also produce “outstanding white wines”.
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Rueda DO celebrates heritage with launch of Gran Vino de Rueda
Published: 17 March, 2022
If Rueda is not on your radar, it should be - the white grape-producing region has become one of Spain’s most popular sources of wine.
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Beaujolais exports to UK continue to rise
Published: 16 March, 2021
Exports of Beaujolais wines to the UK continued to rise in both value and volume last year.
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A very Spanish hero
Published: 02 December, 2020
Rueda is the Spanish white with the most global appeal, but it’s more complex, higher-end wines deserve to be better known. Andrew Catchpole reports
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Quinta do Noval white makes UK debut
Published: 21 September, 2020
Quinta do Noval has released its Cedro do Noval white table wine in the UK for the first time.
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New Zealand report: Blanc page
Published: 27 March, 2020
Enduringly popular and commanding a premium, NZ Sauvignon Blanc is nonetheless evolving with an eye on the future. Andrew Catchpole reports
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Time to change perception of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
Published: 27 June, 2019
New Zealand’s much-loved Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc needs to change its ‘drink now’ image to help boost consumer understanding of its more complex, premium and age-worthy styles.
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Silvaner makes a comeback
Published: 22 October, 2018
After an inauspicious beginning, Silvaner is poised to become one of Europe's great aromatic white varieties, according to sommelier Andrej Grunert.
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Soave gears up for tighter production regulations as it elects new board
Published: 28 June, 2018
A new president and governing board has been elected for the Consorzio of Soave at a time of “major change” for the denomination.
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Vinho Verde quality focus delivering Portuguese success story
Published: 25 May, 2017
Vinho Verde is far and away Portugal's leading white wine region, this northernmost province of Portugal one of Europe's largest demarcated wine regions with 21,000 hectares of planted vineyard, nine sub-regions and more than 2000 wine brands. And something is definitely stirring.
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