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Published: 27 September, 2013
Some of the wine trade's favourite French wines were on show this week at the Absolutely Cracking Wines from France tasting and Harpers is giving you the chance to win a case of specially selected wines from the event.
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Published: 27 September, 2013
In a bid to excite the sherry market, Drakes Tabanco, a traditional tavern typical of Jerez, which serves fine and rare sherries straight from the barrel, is to open in London's Fitzrovia in October.
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Published: 26 September, 2013
The Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2014 has awarded two London eateries, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and the Greenhouse in Mayfair, two Michelin stars each, while 15 other dining spots walked away with one star.
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Published: 26 September, 2013
Scottish-based wine distributor Alliance Wine was the latest wine company to host a different style of tasting this week with a Latin-themed event in Glasgow complete with music, food and tango dancers.
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Published: 26 September, 2013
Glenmorangie, which is running a crowd-sourcing Cask Masters whisky creation programme aimed at getting members of the public involved in the whisky-making process, has announced the winner of a contest run last month to name the single malt, confirming it will be called Taghta, which is the Gaelic word for "chosen".
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Published: 26 September, 2013
A raft of UK agents and importers absent from last year's London International Wine Fair have signed up to exhibit at the newly branded London Wine Fair at Olympia, London, on June 2-4 2014.
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Published: 25 September, 2013
The team behind Hawksmoor is set to open a 100-cover restaurant and bar on St John Street in Clerkenwell, London.
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Published: 25 September, 2013
The Wine & Spirit Trade Association is today starting a campaign to get the alcohol duty escalator scrapped a year early.
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Published: 25 September, 2013
Sud de France has announced the winner of its coveted Sommelier of the Year title - Adam Pawlowski of Michelin-starred restaurant Northcote.
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Published: 25 September, 2013
A line-up of top speakers from all sectors of the trade is being pulled together for Harpers' inaugural France Summit, which will be held at London's St Ermin's hotel on October 22.
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Published: 25 September, 2013
Languedoc-Roussillon specialists Abbotts & Delaunay have appointed a new agronomist and oenologist, Hilde Chevillot, to replace winemaker Vincent Charleux.
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Published: 24 September, 2013
Hugh Johnson & Jancis Robinson, authors of the iconic publication The World Atlas of Wine, are releasing the seventh edition both digitally and in hardback on October 7, 2013.
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Published: 24 September, 2013
Rude Wines has launched a "revealing" new TV campaign on YouTube in order to get the word out about its new business, which launched in May.
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Published: 24 September, 2013
An Indian restaurant in Margate has come up with a novel way of dealing with a persistent intruder who keeps making off with wine and premium cooking ingredients - it is willing to offer them them a job if they can prove they can be a reformed character.
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Published: 24 September, 2013
How well equipped the wine and spirits industry is in adapting to changes in consumer demand will be the central focus of the Wine & Spirit Trade Association's annual conference taking place in London on September 25.
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Published: 24 September, 2013
Hine Cognac, which was put up for sale in April by UK-based CL World Brands, a subsidiary of the Caribbean group CL Financial, has been sold to French company EDV SAS for an undisclosed amount.
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Published: 24 September, 2013
The British Liver Trust has partnered with Eisberg alcohol free-wine, Morrisons and Fibroscan to host pop-up liver clinics, which will offer the public free liver scans and the chance to sample Eisberg wines, as part of the Love Your Liver campaign.
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Published: 23 September, 2013
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has appointed a new chief executive.
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Published: 23 September, 2013
Oxford Landing Estates winery manager Ashley Ratcliff has won two major Australian agricultural awards in one week.
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Published: 23 September, 2013
Mangrove has teamed up with London Venezuelan food specialist Arepa & Co to open a Santa Teresa rum branded cocktail bar in Shoreditch.
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