Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

CyT turns spotlight on Casillero del Diablo with £1.8m push

Published: 30 July, 2020

Concha y Toro (CyT) has announced a £1.8m TV push for Casillero del Diablo, its biggest brand.

Concha y Toro extends Diablo brand

Published: 08 June, 2020

Concha y Toro UK has extended its Diablo brand with a Cabernet Sauvignon.

Chile rising high

Published: 03 June, 2020

Consumers have come to expect value from Chilean wine, says James Lawrence, so how can they be encouraged to trade up?

Concha y Toro provides lab for Covid-19 testing

Published: 30 April, 2020

Concha y Toro’s Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI) in Chile has had its lab certified for Covid-19 testing.

Early 2020 Santa Rita harvest “most memorable and particularly challenging”

Published: 29 April, 2020

Santa Rita Estates (SRE) has pronounced the 2020 harvest as the “most memorable” but also as “particularly challenging within the context in which it developed”.

Tim Atkin MW releases 2020 Chile report

Published: 20 March, 2020

Tim Atkin MW, Harpers columnist and leading UK wine writer, has released his 2020 Chile report.

Santa Rita renews partnership with the IMW

Published: 18 September, 2019

Santa Rita Estates (SRE) has announced it will continue to form part of the Institute of Master of Wine’s (IMW) international supporter community for a further three years.

Hallgarten boosts portfolio with Chilean and Oz producers

Published: 13 September, 2019

Hallgarten & Novum Wines has expanded its portfolio with two new producers - Chile’s Undurraga and Australia’s Tahbilk.

Santa Rita renews Arsenal deal

Published: 24 July, 2019

Chile’s Santa Rita winery has signed up for a second three-year partnership with Arsenal football club.

Santa Rita appoints UK export manager

Published: 24 June, 2019

Santa Rita Estates (SRE) has appointed Alex Kennedy to the role of UK export manager.

Bancroft expands organic menu

Published: 08 May, 2019

Bancroft Wines has expanded its organic menu with the addition of Chilean Nuevo Mundo.

Concha gears up to join ‘wine in can’ category

Published: 03 May, 2019

Concha y Toro (CyT) is poised to become the latest wine producer to turn to the can as the increasingly popular format continues to gather momentum in the UK.

Amathus signs exclusive distribution deal for De Gras

Published: 03 April, 2019

Amathus Drinks has signed a deal as the exclusive distributor of Chilean wine brand De Gras, previously distributed by Enotria.

Santa Rita half way to launch first wave of wines following WiSe project

Published: 22 March, 2019

Santa Rita Estates (SRE) is launching the first wave of wines from the ‘new’ vines it planted five years ago as part of its quality driven WiSe project.

Yellow Tail and Casillero del Diablo top Wine Intelligence global brand power index

Published: 14 March, 2019

Yellow Tail and Casillero del Diablo have emerged as the two most powerful wine brands in Wine Intelligence’s Global Wine Brand Power Index for the second year running.

FMV grows Chilean portfolio with De Martino

Published: 01 October, 2018

Fields, Morris & Verdin (FMV) has expanded its Chilean menu with the addition of family-owned producer De Martino.

CyT hopes to steal share from other alcohol categories with NPD

Published: 12 September, 2018

Concha y Toro (CyT) has launched the first in a line of NPD developed to attract consumers currently shopping within spirits, premium ciders and beers to the wine category.

Chile: Pushing boundaries and twisting tradition

Published: 10 September, 2018

As emerging players in Chile are shaking up the status quo, pushing its premium offer and reinvigorating the wine scene, Alistair Cooper asks if the UK is on board

Chile hits the spot with Japanese wine drinkers as they switch from Old to New World

Published: 05 September, 2018

The notion that wine consumption in Japan is primarily limited to Old World countries has shifted with research revealing a clear focus on the New World.