The Interview: Remi Krug, Chairman, IHEGGAT, Reims, France
Published: 23 July, 2008
What's special about the IHEGGAT training programme?
Read more...Wapping Project moves into wine retailing
Published: 23 July, 2008
Award-winning east London art and dining space, the Wapping Project, is to branch out into wine retailing.
Read more...Licensing Act guidance from the WSTA
Published: 23 July, 2008
In an effort to help licensees who are confused about the new Licensing Act, the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has developed a 12-point guide setting out who needs a licence, what kind of licence they need and how they can apply for it.
Read more...Bordeaux 04: final prices announced
Published: 23 July, 2008
The last of the Bordeaux estates have released their prices for the 2004 en primeur campaign, two months after its start.
Read more...Bordeaux reforms
Published: 23 July, 2008
A number of big reforms to the Bordeaux wine region were voted through at last week's general assembly of the Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) - including the establishment of a vin de pays category for the region.
Read more...Lay & Wheeler makes overtures to new market
Published: 23 July, 2008
Having made headlines last year for its alliance with Thresher Group, Lay & Wheeler has teamed up with another unlikely partner - The Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden.
Read more...EU sulphur clarification
Published: 23 July, 2008
At the request of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA), Comit Vins, the European trade association for wine, has sought legal advice that provides clarification on the EU Directive on Allergens (D 2003/89/EC), which comes into effect on 25 November 2005.
Read more...Cono Sur hits the on-trade with Novum
Published: 23 July, 2008
Chilean winery Cono Sur has launched a new on-trade exclusive range in conjunction with Novum Wines, the wine company set up by former Oddbins buyer Steve Daniel.
Read more...Summit up
Published: 23 July, 2008
It has become a truism that the wine trade can't organise a knees-up in a winery.
Read more...Italian ex-cellar prices falling
Published: 23 July, 2008
As Italians begin muttering about abandoning the euro, news comes that the crisis in the wine sector is deepening. In May 2005, according to statistical researchers ISMEA, prices for wines at source fell 2.4%.
Read more...Hennessy goes to work
Published: 23 July, 2008
Hennessy Cognac is launching a series of workshops, or 'Friday Tonics', in key institutions around London in an effort to educate new consumers about Cognac.
Read more...Mumm launches Grand Cru
Published: 23 July, 2008
Champagne GH Mumm launched its long-awaited NV Grand Cru cuve onto the UK market at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's in London on 10 June.
Read more...New head for Castel UK
Published: 23 July, 2008
astel Frres has appointed Anne Burchett, the former UK head of Loire giant Vinival, to the new role of managing director for Castel UK.
Read more...German Wine Bible in English
Published: 23 July, 2008
Happily we have not had to wait as long for an English translation of the German Wine Bible' as John Wycliffe and his followers had to wait for an English version of the Gospel.
Read more...New Sangiovese clones
Published: 23 July, 2008
The newly unified Consorzio Chianti Classico released the results of its Project 2000 viticultural study last week and also launched its new logo and UK marketing campaign.
Read more...Fistonich honoured
Published: 23 July, 2008
George Fistonich, founder and managing director of New Zealand's Villa Maria Group, has received one of his country's highest honours by being made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Read more...FWD conference call
Published: 23 July, 2008
Rogue traders are decimating the businesses of legitimate licensed wholesalers and cash and carries, according to the chairman of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors (FWD), Rodney Hunt.
Read more...Majestic posts 24% rise in profits
Published: 23 July, 2008
Wine-by-the-case specialist Majestic Wine has posted another year of record pre-tax profits - up 23.9% to 13.2 million.
Read more...Coyle quits Oddbins
Published: 23 July, 2008
Lynne Coyle, the last member of the pioneering team of buyers who between them made Oddbins the most exciting of the multiple specialists during the nineties, has quit the retailer.
Read more...PLB gets a Sicilian
Published: 23 July, 2008
Sicilian producer Firriato is to be reunited with Australian flying winemaker Kym Milne MW after PLB snapped up the agency from current UK importer - and Milne's former employer - Italvini (part of WaverleyTBS).
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