Aspall cyder returns to India after 110 years
Published: 06 August, 2013
Aspall, the premium cyder brand from Suffolk, is returning to India after an absence of over 100 years.
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Drinks journalists and whisky retailers dig deep to complete Ardbeg Islay Half Marathon
Published: 06 August, 2013
A team of more than 20 drinks writers and whisky retailers have helped raise over £6,000 for the National Brain Appeal in memory of drinks journalist, Alan Lodge, who died last year of a brain haemorrhage aged just 29 by taking part in last weekend's Ardbeg Islay Half Marathon.
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Chance to shine in Harpers French Wine Awards
Published: 05 August, 2013
Harpers is looking to recognise the best retailers, restaurants, suppliers, distributors and ambassadors for the French wine category in the UK over the last 12 months with our inaugural French Wine Awards being run as part of the France Summit on October 22.
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Latin American Free Trade Agreement is a boost to Scotch whisky industry
Published: 05 August, 2013
The Scotch whisky industry has received a boost this month with the removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers to how it trades in areas of Southern and Central America including Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
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Denbies to harvest its first Sauvignon Blanc vintage in October
Published: 02 August, 2013
Denbies Wine Estate is looking forward to harvesting its first Sauvignon Blanc vines. Planted four years ago, they should be ready to harvest mid-October, said the Surrey vineyard's general manager, Chris White.
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Pernod Ricard urges trade to get behind premium sales this Christmas
Published: 02 August, 2013
Pernod Ricard is spearheading its 2013 Christmas campaign with a raft of new products, including a vodka launch already successful in the United States, a lower-alcohol variety for its flagship wine brand, Brancott Estate, and mainstream brandy, Domecq 1820.
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Leading names sign up to sparkling wine symposium
Published: 01 August, 2013
The International Sparkling Wine Symposium to be held at English winery Denbies in December, continues to attract high-profile speakers.
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Hawes, Mills and Townsend join the Benevolent as Trustees
Published: 01 August, 2013
Drinks industry charity The Benevolent has appointed three new Trustees as it continues to restructure and reposition itself in the trade.
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Australian Vintage launches low-alcohol wine in the UK
Published: 31 July, 2013
Summer Light Miranda is a new low-alcohol wine brand being produced by Australian Vintage for the UK and will be available on retail shelves this autumn.
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Digby Fine English hopes to become a global sparkling wine brand
Published: 31 July, 2013
Digby Fine English, a new English sparkling wine, launched yesterday in London with grand ambitions to become a global sparkling wine brand.
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Paul Henry backs new Thousand Candles Australian wine brand
Published: 31 July, 2013
Former UK Wine Australia chief, Paul Henry, and Pinot Noir specialist, William Downie have teamed up to produce new Australian wine brand, Thousand Candles, which is to be distributed in the UK by Alliance Wine.
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Drinks brands go head to head in Harpers Design Awards 2013
Published: 30 July, 2013
Passers-by may not have realised but leading wine and spirits brands were going head to head yesterday at Jamie Hutchinson's The Sampler South Kensignton venue for the judging of the 2013 Harpers Design Awards.
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New German wine range targets Indian restaurants
Published: 30 July, 2013
South German winegrowers' co-operative Winzer vom Weinsberger Tal has launched a new range, Young Line Wines, and hopes to break into the UK market by exclusively targeting Indian restaurants.
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Wolf Blass signs up England and Aussie cricket stars
Published: 28 July, 2013
Leading Australian wine brand, Wolf Blass, helped bring together some of cricket's Ashes heroes of yesteryear at a special...
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Cru Bourgeois 2011 wines to be revealed at London tasting
Published: 27 July, 2013
Wines selected from the 2011 vintage for Cru Bourgeois Médoc status will be shown for the first time to the trade at a special tasting in London on September 19.
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Symington named Douro Personality of the Year
Published: 26 July, 2013
The Portuguese Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, presented Paul Symington the Douro Personality of the Year award at a ceremony earlier this week.
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Cliff Roberson to open London's first urban winery
Published: 25 July, 2013
London Cru, set to be the first urban boutique winery in London, is busy preparing for harvest and getting ready to open its cellar doors to the public this November in central London.
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Drinks writers run Ardbeg Half Marathon in memory of Alan Lodge
Published: 25 July, 2013
A team of over 20 drinks writers and representatives of Scottish whiksy distillery, Ardbeg, are to take part in the annual Islay Half Marathon on August 3 to help raise money for the National Brain Appeal in memory of Alan Lodge of The Spirits Business who died from a brain haemorrhage aged just 29 last year.
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Syrian winery defies war to supply wine to European restaurants
Published: 24 July, 2013
Syrian winery, Domaine Bargylus, continues to go to extraordinary lengths to get its wines from a war zone to the elite wine lists of Europe.
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Q&A: Diageo's Walter Celli Junior on its World Class competition
Published: 23 July, 2013
Diageo launched its World Class bartender competition in 2009. In its first year, the programme reached around 4,000 bartenders.
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