English wine enjoys steady growth
England and Wales have produced a bumper volume of wine, Food Standards Agency (FSA) figures show.
England and Wales have produced a bumper volume of wine, Food Standards Agency (FSA) figures show.
Champagne house Jacquart and Harpers are teaming up to launch a new national trophy for up-and-coming young sommeliers and chefs.
Grand marnier Cognac expert Patrick Raguenaud to unveil secrets of Cognac.
Harpers, the weekly 129 year-old drinks title exclusively for the wine and spirit trade, has been redesigned in response to rigorous reader research.
Read more...Vignobles Dubard, which produces Bergerac and Montravel wines, has appointed Delibo Fine Wines as its exclusive UK agent.
Champagne house Laurent Perrier has announced 13 % rise in sales in 2006 to 208 million euro.
Read more...Contellation Europe is launching a new product aimed at 25 - 35 year-old women with a 3 million marketing campaign.
Waitrose is raising standards within its supply chains through a new ethical trading manual.
Over-50s account for over 40% of the UK wine market by value
Round-the-clock drinking in pubs has led to a drop in the number of women getting injured in fights, a new report has revealed.
Read more...The government's former senior policy adviser on alcohol is to join the Wine and Spirit Trade Association.
Read more...The Scotch whisky industry has launched a new national training standard.
Read more...A British-run company is teaching Bordelais winemakers how to boost sales in the UK.
Pub company J D Wetherspoon has announced a sales increase of 8% to 438.4 million in the past six months.
Three companies have made formal approaches to the Swedish government about taking over Vin & Sprit, the state-owned producer of Absolut vodka.
The takeover talks between Blavod Extreme Spirits, the producer of flavoured vodkas, and an unidentified American company have fallen through.
Swiss shipping company Kuehne + Nagel has announced a 45% increase in net earnings in the past year to a record CHF458 million (194m).
Bodegas Olvena in Somontano is the first Spanish winery - and only the second Old World producer - to be part of Stratford's Wine Agencies' portfolio.
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Nyetimber, the awarded English sparkling wine producer, has helped to design a unique insurance policy - the first of its kind globally - to protect its grapes against a number of risks, including crop spraying.