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Argento engages the commuter

Published:  23 July, 2008

Argento has appointed The Drinks Sampling Company (DSC) to take on the sampling campaign of its Malbec and Chardonnay wines over the next six months.

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New Argentina awards

Published:  23 July, 2008

The inaugural Argentina Wine Awards (AWA) are to take place in two months' time in Mendoza. The event will comprise a blind tasting, which will last for three days, followed by a seminar and then an awards ceremony.

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LIWSF spirits zone doubles in size

Published:  23 July, 2008

For the second year in a row, the area devoted to spirits at the London International Wine & Spirits Fair is to double in size.

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Changes to Roederer awards

Published:  23 July, 2008

Announcement of the winners at the wine writers' awards sponsored by Louis Roederer have been moved to early September. The move has been instigated in order to have publication of the results in wine magazines before the Christmas shopping period.

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Screwcaps are now a mainstream' closure

Published:  23 July, 2008

Screwcap closures are now considered part of mainstream wine packaging, according to new research from Wine Intelligence.

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Fitou producers may quit CIVL

Published:  23 July, 2008

A number of Fitou producers in southern France have expressed a desire to leave the CIVL (Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Languedoc). The news broke at the CIVL's general meeting.

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Sainsbury's new wine good for the heart'

Published:  23 July, 2008

Sainsbury's has launched a new wine that claims to have 32% more antioxidants than the average red wine.

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Cut out the middle man

Published:  23 July, 2008

David Campbell, publisher of France's Le Guide Hachette des Vins, and Esme Johnstone, a founder of Majestic Wine, have launched a website that will replicate book website Amazon's bargains on a range of products.

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Appointments

Published:  23 July, 2008
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NZ winery cleared of sample wrongdoing

Published:  23 July, 2008

by Jo Burzynska
Marlborough winery Wither Hills has been cleared of any malpractice in the wake of one of its wines being disqualified from a key wine competition in New Zealand.

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Own-label fizz beats big Champagne brands

Published:  23 July, 2008

Sainsbury's and Somerfield own-label Champagnes have taken top spot in a Which? magazine sparkling wine tasting.

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Phylloxera strikes in Yarra Valley

Published:  23 July, 2008

By Max Allen
For the first time in its 170-year viticultural history, phylloxera has arrived slap bang in the centre of the Yarra Valley, one of Australia's leading cool-climate wine regions. And it's the last thing the Yarra's grape growers and winemakers needed to hear.

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Moldovan wine set for return to Russian market

Published:  23 July, 2008

President Voronin of Moldova and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have announced that Moldovan wine will be allowed to return to the Russian market, subject to new controls over quality.

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Changes to Roederer awards

Published:  23 July, 2008

Announcement of the winners at the wine writers' awards sponsored by Louis Roederer have been moved to early September. The move has been instigated in order to have publication of the results in wine magazines before the Christmas shopping period.

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Geronimo group to double in size

Published:  23 July, 2008

London-based Geronimo pub group is to double in size in the next three years after receiving funds of nearly 25 million.

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Wither Hills admits error in competition samples

Published:  23 July, 2008

Marlborough wine producer Wither Hills has defended its reputation after a competition judge claimed that one of the wines submitted by the winery was not representative of its usual style.

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New year, new show

Published:  23 July, 2008
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Sweet & sour

Published:  23 July, 2008

Say no to oak - help put the fruit back in wine.' This sign, posted up behind the tasting bar at Trimbach, is a neat summation of the charms of Alsace. Wines with great poise, a good structure of acidity and, of course, some of the best food wines you'll ever taste. Why, then, does it appear to be an underappreciated wine region, one that never grabs the headlines?

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The Interview: Gianpiero Colucci, Manager, Spaghetti House, Marble Arch branch

Published:  23 July, 2008

The Marble Arch branch is the most recent Spaghetti House restaurant to open (in mid-2005) and the first trialling a more modern look. Spaghetti House has nine venues in London, the first of which opened in 1955.
A native of Bari in Puglia, Gianpiero Colucci worked at Pescatori in London and at the Cranbourn Street branch of Spaghetti House before becoming one of the chain's youngest restaurant managers. This branch was a finalist in the Best Italian Restaurant category of The Pizza Pasta & Italian Food Industry Awards 2006 (www.papa.org.uk).
Suppliers include Berkmann, Vinum
and Alivini.

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Gluck's new wine texting service

Published:  23 July, 2008

Malcolm Gluck has written his last edition of Superplonk, and will now provide weekly recommendations by text message in his new service, The Glug Report.

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