Banrock Station, the Constellation-owned Australian brand, has launched Crimson Cabernet Sauvignon, a lower-alcohol red wine, to the UK market, following a successful launch in its homeland.
A Parisian-style brasserie, complete with black-and-white tiled floors and large mirrors, will be launched in London's Farringdon in October.
Read more...A new whisky distillery in Fife, due to open next year, is looking for members to sign up and receive bottlings for the next 50 years.
Toptable, the restaurant search and booking website, has bought the City eating group for an undisclosed sum.
Read more...Islay-based Scotch producer Bowmore is to launch a 30 year-old whisky exclusively for the travel retail market.
Fentimans has launched a new 125ml bottle of ginger beer designed to provide a mixer for the ontrade.
A new web-based TV channel devoted to single malt whisky is set to launch today: www.singlemalt.tv
By Stuart Peskett - Resplendent in his trademark bow tie, Christian Seely, MD of Axa Millsimes, was in a good mood when he announced that Quinta do Noval would be releasing a 2004 vintage Port.
Hugh Crichton has been appointed winemaker at New Zealand's Vidal winery.
Stormhoek, the South African brand that brought blogging to the wine trade, has embarked on another industry first with the launch of a limited-edition series of bottle designs.
The Wine Group (TWG) and Les Grands Chais de France (GCF), the world's third- and fourth-largest wine producers, have formed a global strategic alliance' to cover the US and Europe.
Read more...The UK's first Fairtrade wines from Argentina will hit the shelves of the Co-op next week.
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Uvine, the wine exchange company that acts as an intermediary for the buying and selling of wine, went into administration on Tuesday - with its MD, Christopher Burr MW, declared bankrupt.
This is a fine Georgian building for your first hotel
Yes, although when we bought it, it was in a real state. It looked beautiful from the outside, but the bathrooms were yellow. They weren't even avocado green - it was a time even before that colour. My mother was concerned at us sinking half a million into the project, and I was pretty worried too, although I reassured her - and myself - with the fact that people would know us from Summer Lodge, the hotel where we were working. Once the new owners started trying to turn Summer Lodge into a corporate venue rather than a place for regulars, we knew we had to leave.
The latest release from Speyside distillery The Glenrothes is the 1975, joining the other vintage releases of that decade.
Kingsland Wines & Spirits has formalised its partnership with Overhex Wines International of South Africa and will now represent Overhex as its UK distributor of both bulk and branded wines.
What made you come to a small, hard-to-get-to village in the West Country?
Well I should still be organising events at Glyndebourne, Royal Ascot and the Cheltenham Gold Cup, as an operations director at Compass, but the managing director and I fell out. I was empowered to do exactly what he wanted me to do. We knocked spots off each other for three years, so I walked out. I trained as a chef in the '60s, and having seen so many restaurants done so badly, I thought I could do better. I waited for my wife, Sonia, to retire, and we came down here. We looked at a few places in Cornwall, but that seemed a bit far away, so in the end we picked up this place from the chef Martin Hadden, who was moving on to Ockendon Manor. It was a tough act to follow. He had a Michelin star, but the Good Food Guide has just given us five stars, so we're moving in the right direction.
Enotria Winecellars has appointed Simon Treanor as its new on-trade sales director.
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Wines and spirits played a large part in increasing sales and profits at LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company, in the first half of 2006.
Sainsbury's is massively expanding the number wines available in its online store due to huge growth' in orders.
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