Campo Viejo tries to change opinion
Published: 23 July, 2008
Pernod Ricard UK is launching its first consumer press advertising campaign for the Rioja brand Campo Viejo for five years.
Read more...Mixed reaction to second Wine Show event in London
Published: 23 July, 2008
by Christian Davis
The second year of the consumer exhibition the Wine Show, which took place between 26 and 29 October at the Business Design Centre in Islington, north London, drew a mixed response from exhibitors.
Wine educator is new fizz ambassador
Published: 23 July, 2008
Wine educator Carol Whitehead has won this year's Champagne Ambassadors' Award.
Read more...NATO to fund cork research project
Published: 23 July, 2008
By CONAL GREGORY MW
NATO is to fund a major research project to investigate the problem of pesticide contamination in cork forests.
Mumm launches Champagne gourmet programme
Published: 23 July, 2008
Champagne GH Mumm has created a Gourmet Dinner toolkit' with invitations, menu cards and educational material for on-trade clients which list GH Mumm Champagne as a pouring wine.
Read more...NZ harvest to break 200,000-tonne barrier
Published: 23 July, 2008
by Stuart Peskett
The 2007 harvest in New Zealand is on course to hit the 200,000 tonne mark, according to Warren Adamson, UK and European director of New Zealand WineGrowers.
Italian version of Wagamama
Published: 23 July, 2008
A new chain of pasta restaurants, called Raviolo, will open with a first branch in Balham, in January.
Read more...Big expansion plans for Conran Restaurants
Published: 23 July, 2008
Conran Restaurants is to launch four restaurants in the next year, in the wake of a 49% purchase of the company by two employees.
Park Lane steps it up in the culinary stakes
Published: 23 July, 2008
London's Park Lane is to gain three top chefs, bringing the level of the street's dining in line with the wealth of its residents and hotel guests.
Read more...Wine still a drink for the upper class'
Published: 23 July, 2008
A survey of nearly 1,000 adults has shown that wine is still considered to be a drink consumed by the upper classes.
Co-op lists first Fairtrade wines from Argentina
Published: 23 July, 2008
The Co-op has just added four own-label Fairtrade wines from Argentina to its list, the first UK retailer to do so.
Sainsbury's McEvoy moves to Thresher
Published: 23 July, 2008
Sainsbury's wine buyer Helen McEvoy is leaving on
17 November to join Threshers as senior wine buyer.
Stone, Vine & Sun founder takes Waitrose buying job
Published: 23 July, 2008
Andrew Shaw, one of the co-directors of award-winning distance seller Stone, Vine & Sun, is to join the buying team at Waitrose.
Read more...The price is right
Published: 23 July, 2008
Last year, judges at the Gosset awards, a competition to find the best Champagne list in the UK, found evidence of what they described as shocking, greedy pricing which does little to encourage the uninitiated to try Champagne'.
Read more...Port - A drink for all seasons
Published: 23 July, 2008
With Christmas just a couple of months away, restaurants can get ready for a bumper few months of Port sales.
Read more...Hardy's CEO to step down in 2007
Published: 23 July, 2008
David Woods, CEO and MD of Hardy Wine Company, has announced that he will be stepping down on 30 June next year.
Read more...The Interview - Thierry TrigeauChef sommelier, Simpsons Restaurant, Birmingham
Published: 23 July, 2008
Thierry Trigeau, 44, was born in Rouen and has been a sommelier for the past 10 years. His previous experience was with the Brasserie au Theatre in Bordeaux, Restaurant Alexandra in Montreal, Canada, and at Thornbury Castle near Bristol, and he has also spent a short spell as a winemaker at a petit chteau in Bordeaux, near his home in Cadillac. He joined Simpsons, Birmingham's leading Michelin-starred restaurant, in January 2006.
Read more...Dates for next year's SITT event announced
Published: 23 July, 2008
Details of the 2007 Specialist Importers Trade Tastings have been announced.
The first event will take place on Monday 26 February at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, with the London tasting held at Vinopolis two days later.
WOSA boss will quit post in New Year
Published: 23 July, 2008
by Christian Davis
One of the best-known faces in the UK wine trade, Wines
of South Africa's (WOSA) UK market manager Sophie Waggett, has decided to step down.
GM vine trials may get go-ahead in South Africa
Published: 23 July, 2008
by Stuart Peskett
Trials aimed at producing genetically modified (GM) vines that are resistant to fungus will be carried out by the University of Stellenbosch, provided the government grants permission. And in a separate application, an ex-pat South African has asked for permission to sell GM yeast to winemakers.
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