Read takes over at Villa Maria UK
Published: 23 July, 2008
Villa Maria has announced that Charlotte Read is to be its new European wine manager.
Read more...When takeovers raise value
Published: 23 July, 2008
Many studies have revealed that takeovers destroy value for the shareholders of the purchasing company. The mooted savings through rationalisation and size rarely deliver the benefits promised by the acquiring directors and their highly rewarded City advisers.
From Douro drought to glut
Published: 23 July, 2008
The Port trade is suffering at both ends of the river Douro.
Read more...Tim JohnstonJuveniles Wine Bar, Paris, France
Published: 23 July, 2008
Tim Johnston was educated
at a very second-rate public school, from which I escaped aged 17'. He worked for Findlaters for a few months, before eight months in slavery' at Chteau Cantenac-Brown.
He apprenticed with Hedges & Butler, and in 1969 he moved to France, where he has been involved with several wine bars, including Willi's and Juveniles with Mark Williamson, The Blue Fox with Steven Spurrier, and Tournon in Bordeaux with Alex Herbage. He has written for Wine International, Wine Spectator and Saveur. He has vinified in France (Bordeaux, Hermitage and Provence), America (Chateau Montelena, Jordan Winery and Bill Wheeler's winery on Dry Creek Road) and Australia (Cullen). Juveniles sells wine for off- as well as on-premise consumption, and Johnston is available to source French wines.
Dunn manages Chile's Via Valdivieso
Published: 23 July, 2008
Connect Wine, the new business venture set up by former International Wine Services commercial director Paul Dunn, has signed up the Chilean winery Via Valdivieso as a client.
Read more...M-erlot C-abernet C-armenre
Published: 23 July, 2008
Wines of Chile
Annual Trade Tasting
Lord's Cricket Ground
London NW8
Tuesday 13 September
10.30am-5pm
Majestic Burgundy parcel
Published: 23 July, 2008
Majestic wine has secured a stunning' 36,000-bottle parcel of red and white Burgundies from the 1997 to 2000 vintages.
Liberty Wines takes Grosset
Published: 23 July, 2008
Liberty Wines has taken over the distribution of famed Clare Valley producer Jeffrey Grosset.
Read more...Message of a bottle
Published: 23 July, 2008
Do you know how glass is made? Sorry? Yes, it's got sand in it. Anything else? No? A straw poll among the Harpers team certainly showed up our manufacturing ignorance, but many people seem to take for granted the vessel that protects and contains the precious liquid that we spend most of our time writing about. If you'd like a full breakdown of what goes into glass, rather than what goes inside it, then see below. In a nutshell, it's a mixture of sand, limestone and soda ash.
Read more...New Alliance for branded Burgundy
Published: 23 July, 2008
A new Beaune-based ngociant, La Nouvelle Alliance/The New Alliance (LNA), has been founded by partners on opposite sides of The Channel with the aim of bridging the gap between small Burgundy growers and traditional ngociants'.
Read more...The Interview: Paul Henderson, Director, Gidleigh Park Hotel, Chagford, Devon
Published: 23 July, 2008
How did you end up running a hotel in the middle of Devon?
Read more...Pernod deal for Allied completed
Published: 23 July, 2008
Three months after the Allied Domecq's board decided to recommend Pernod Ricard's bid for the company, the UK's second-largest drinks company now belongs to its French rival.
Sales of single malts soar
Published: 23 July, 2008
The amount of malt whisky drunk in the UK in 2004 is 10% up on 2003 levels - and the consumer is trading up, too.
South African auction wines come to the UK
Published: 23 July, 2008
Leading South African winemakers Gary Jordan (Jordan Winery) and Niels Verburg (Luddite) will be visiting London in September to present the wines on offer at this year's Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction.
Read more...Ardche launches UK PR campaign
Published: 23 July, 2008
The Ardche Mridionale region of the southern Rhne is launching a UK PR campaign to raise awareness of the little-known region.
Read more...Marketing Australia
Published: 23 July, 2008
The theme of the 2005 Australian Wine Marketing Conference, held last week in Adelaide, was navigating your route to market'.
ASA: Use old, fat, bald men in ads
Published: 23 July, 2008
More bald and overweight' men should be used in alcohol ads, according to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
Read more...Boyar looks to Ehrmanns
Published: 23 July, 2008
Bulgarian wine producer Boyar Estates is closing its UK office and moving its UK marketing and distribution to Ehrmanns.
Read more...Two MWs out; two MWs in at Waitrose
Published: 23 July, 2008
Waitrose has replaced two departing MWs - buyer Simon Thorpe MW and wine information manager Julia Harding MW - with two more graduates of the Institute of Masters of Wine.
Read more...The Napa Declaration
Published: 23 July, 2008
Representatives from seven leading wine-producing regions met in the Napa Valley last week to sign the Napa Declaration' - an agreement that the great wine regions will speak with one voice' to protect geographical place names.
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