Irish drinks company C&C Group has reported its trading for the first half of the financial year to 31 August 2025. The business saw net revenues drop 4% compared to last year, in line with its expectations for the period.
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The Liv-ex August 2025 Market Intelligence Report has been released, giving a snapshot of the top performing traded wines.
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Drinks United (DU) has announced an industry-wide survey, designed to gather insights into how the UK drinks trade can become more united, more inclusive and more supportive for all those who work within it.
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Enotria&Coe has revealed that it’s bringing back its original name, Enotria.
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New research from Drinkaware and Anglia Ruskin University can reveal that approximately 2% of UK adults have been a victim of drink spiking in the past year.
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The CEO of New Zealand Winegrowers, Philip Gregan, has announced plans to retire in June 2026.
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Roxane Dupuy, executive sommelier at Row on 5, has been announced as the winner of the first ever Taylor’s Port Vintage Years UK Sommelier Challenge.
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At Hatch Mansfield’s portfolio tasting at the glitzy Institute of Directors, established producers and upstart projects were the order of the day.
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UKHospitality has projected that a total of 111,000 hospitality jobs will have been lost by the Budget on 26 November.
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Liberty Wines has announced new distribution agreements with two Spanish producers. The importer is adding Ribeira Sacra’s Adega Algueira and Tenerife’s Ocampo to its offering.
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New research from Pub is The Hub has put a figure on how much social value pubs provide.
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Liv-ex has released its first classification since 2023. The initiative sees the fine wine trading platform “use price alone to determine a hierarchy of the leading labels in the secondary market”.
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The UK Bartenders Guild (UKBG) has announced that Sam Chatterji (pictured), from Bittersweet in Edinburgh, has won The National Cocktail Competition 2025: The Moutai Expedition.
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This year’s Austrian harvest is anticipated to see an increase compared to 2024’s small grape gathering. Austrian Wine expects a harvest of 2.5m hls which is a strong uplift compared to 2024’s 1.87m hl take.
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Independent supplier Alliance Wine is now the exclusive UK distributor for Bodegas Dominio de Cair, a leading Ribera del Duero winery.
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As the name Carouse suggests, Faye Buckle’s soon to open Bristol indie merchant aims to keep wine social and fun. Oliver Catchpole taps in.
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Italy’s wine sector is expected to produce 47.4m hls of wine this year. The figure, compiled by Assoenologi, ISMEA and the Unione Italiana Vini (UIV), represents an +8% rise compared to 2024’s harvest.
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UKHospitality, the trade body for hospitality which represents over 750 companies in the UK, has backed the Scotch Whisky Association’s (SWA) call for the UK Government to freeze alcohol duty in the Autumn Budget.
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For the first time ever, the International Wine Challenge (IWC) have given an English wine the Champion Sparkling Wine (Daniel Thibault Trophy) award.
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Jessica Julmy has been appointed the MD of Tempos Vega Sicilia, the family of wineries owned by the Álvarez Mezquíriz family.
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