South American UK off-trade wine sales thrive

South American wine sales in the UK off-trade have thrived in the past couple of years, showing double-digit value growth, up 12% in 2019 and 24% in 2020 (year to 2 January, 2021), according to new NielsenIQ research shared exclusively with Harpers.

Buying into South America

Buyers are finding wine drinkers more than willing to take a chance on non-Malbec reds from Chile
and Argentina, as Lisa Riley reports

North South Wines signs Ventisquero distribution deal

Chilean producer Ventisquero Wine Estates (VWE) has appointed North South Wines as distributor for its Ventisquero brand.

Trivento enters top 10 branded light wines

Trivento, Concha y Toro’s (CyT) Argentinean wine brand, led the charge as the company delivered strong off-trade growth for the 12-week period to 2January 2021. 

Condor pairs with Cooper, capturing stories behind SA’s 2020 harvest

A new advisory collaboration between South American specialist Alistair Cooper MW and importer Condor Wines has delivered its first result in the shape of a 2020 Harvest Report, delivering the stories behind a ‘unique’ vintage.

CyT Q2 results show “double-digit” uplift

Chilean producer Viña Concha y Toro has announced a 16.5% consolidated sales uplift in its Q2 results, posted today (31 July).

Q&A: Marcelo Papa, Concha y Toro

Andrew Catchpole speaks with CyT’s technical director about climate change, driving Chile forward and balancing innovation with commercial reality

Concha y Toro extends Diablo brand

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

Southern hemisphere winemakers share lessons from crisis harvesting

Producers from across the southern hemisphere have shared their experiences of what it was like to complete their 2020 harvests while infrastructure closed down around them and the movement of people became restricted.

Chile rising high

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

Q&A: Eduardo Alemparte, Viña Santa Rita

Just ahead of handing over the reins as director of viniviticulture to Jaime de la Barra at the historical Maipo estate Viña Santa Rita, Eduardo Alemparte explained the allure of a benchmark Chilean region.

Cono Sur rolls out organic range

Chilean producer Concha y Toro has launched a new organic range under its Cono Sur label.

Concha y Toro provides lab for Covid-19 testing

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”

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

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

Q&A: Charles Tyler, Paladar

Taste Argentina adds 25 wines

Online retailer Taste Argentina has expanded its specialist portfolio with 25 new wines.

Tim Atkin MW: Taking wine to the limit

The life jacket seemed like a good idea, given the size of the launch and the strength of the wind barreling down the jetty. Nervously, I climbed on board and prepared for the final leg of a journey that had started more than 1,000km away in Santiago with a flight to Puerto Montt. From there, I’d taken a ferry to the Isla Grande de Chiloé and driven to Quicavi on its eastern coast. Now it was time to visit the tiny island of Añihué, home to one of the most remote and unusual vineyards in the world.

Q&A: Hallgarten's Steve Daniel on how to buy wine

In a new series we get under the skin of wine buyers from across the trade, quizzing importers, restaurants, independents and wholesalers about how they got into buying, what informs their day-to-day decisions and what tips they’d offer newcomers.

Championing Chile

There have been plenty of emerging highlights, but Chile stills needs to push its premium offerings says Andrew Catchpole.