Last year saw a host of independent merchants compete for the coveted title of Wines from Rioja's Retailer of the Year, run in association with Harpers. Carol Emmas catches up with those who put in the hard graft and saw increased sales
Read more...As we go into 2013, we ask three industry sommeliers from Sketch, Coq d'Argent and Launceston Place how they'll be looking at changing their wine lists this year.
Read more...PLB is to launch its second UK Regional Roadshow tour with its specialist portfolio and has further announced it will join forces with Hatch Mansfield for the Scottish leg of the tour.
Read more...Ready for the next instalment of what's gone on in the wine trade in 2012?
Read more...Wines from Rioja has announced the winners of its Retailer of the Year Competition 2012 as Cambridge Wine Merchants, with the Longship, Orkney, as runner-up.
Read more...Wines from Rioja has announced the winners of its Retailer of the Year Competition as Cambridge Wine Merchants with runner-up, The Longship, Orkney.
Read more...Louis Latour Agencies is looking to boost its portfolio with producers from Champagne and Spain.
Read more...Spain has been reaching out to export markets, such as the UK, with an increasingly "can-do" attitude...
Read more...Rioja remains the top Spanish wine, but other Tempranillo-based wines are helping to drive the category, according to buyers.
Read more...Spanish wine champion John Radford died on October 19, aged 65.
Read more...Distributor Cellar Trends has taken a further step in its aim to become "champion of the UK cocktail sector", by taking on Spain's most widely exported liqueur Licor 43.
Read more..."My favourite wine is Rioja". It's a line I hear a lot. Despite the UK's frequent absence on Rioja's top five list of most important export markets, the British have had a long standing love affair with wines from this notoriously wealthy Spanish region.
Read more...Off-Piste Wines has been appointed the new UK off-trade agent for Spanish wine producer Bodegas Muriel.
Read more...Julio Faustino Martinez of the Faustino Group has been awarded 'Personalidades Ilustres del Rioja', for his contribution to the expansion of the Rioja brand both in Spain and globally.
Read more...Virgin Wines has launched its second Virtual Winery, the Rioja Experience, where customers can become virtual winemakers and interactively help create a new wine.
Read more...There's still time for independent merchants to enter the Wines from Rioja Retailer of the Year Competition.
Read more...United Wineries has promoted Nathan Last to sales director with the aim of consolidating its position as the largest supplier of branded Spanish wines in the UK and driving growth in its Italian brands.
Read more...Creative Rioja-loving independent wine merchants are being called on to show their skills in the Wines from Rioja Retailer of the Year Competition.
Beltrán Domecq has become the new president of the Board of the Consejo Regulador, where he will help to decide the future of sherry alongside growers and winemakers.
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