John E Fells will now be responsible for sales and distribution of wines for Jackson Wine Estates, whose portfolio includes Kendall-Jackson in California, Via Caline in Chile, and Yangarra Estate in McLaren Vale, Australia.
Read more...Jeremy Beadles, chief executive of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA), has warned that Finnish plans for health warnings on back labels would encourage other national governments to follow suit.
Jo Burzynska reporting from New Zealand
As one of the many Riesling lovers vainly holding out for the variety's long-prophesied but never-nigh renaissance, my heart sank a little with the news that plantings of the Germanic great had been overtaken by Pinot Gris in the vineyards of New Zealand.
by Rebecca Gibb
Fortnum & Mason wants to leave behind its dusty old Hogwarts image' with a 24-million revamp.
Clementine Communications now handles the PR for Champagne Montaudon - one of the only family-run Champagne houses remaining in the region.
Read more...Following the launch of a new website for Bunnahabhain Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky earlier in 2006, an online shop is now up and running.
David Yunghanns of Wingara Wine Group has warned that fake versions of top Australian wines are on the increase.
Read more...Thresher's trading director, Alex Anson, is leaving the company to take up a new position as European buying director for Nuance Group, based in Zurich.
Morgenrot Chevaliers PLC, an independent wholesaler in the north of England, is relocating to new premises in Manchester after 36 years of trading from its original site in Bolton.
Richard Bell, of Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire, has won the Caterer and Hotelkeeper's Hotelier of the Year award.
Read more...David Rhodes, an associate director and sales manager for Pol Roger, died last month, aged 65.
Australian producer McGuigan Simeon is to use the Rugby World Cup in France next year to promote its Gold range in the UK.
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Yves Bnard, president of the Union des Maisons de Champagne (UMC), has warned growers and cooperatives in Champagne that their action in holding onto 50% more grapes than they need to replace their annual sales is threatening the stability of the market.
Tim Johns has been appointed Wines of Argentina UK's campaign coordinator. Johns will be based at the generic body's office in the Argentine consulate in Mayfair.
Read more...Dan Jago of Tesco is to join Ian Harris in presenting the WSET's Awards of Excellence, continuing the tradition of using the wine world's more high-profile speakers for the evening.
Read more...The 2007 vintage in Australia is likely to produce 20% lower yields than average - a reduction of half a million tonnes of grapes on 2006.
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.
Read more...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.
For the second year in a row, the area devoted to spirits at the London International Wine & Spirits Fair is to double in size.
Read more...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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