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Deliveroo-tionary: The partnerships changing the delivery game

Published: 26 July, 2017

Jo Gilbert argues that local link-ups such as Deliveroo’s new alcohol partnerships could change the delivery game

Getting online: Keeping up with the Amazons

Published: 17 July, 2017

Pick what you want to get from being online and do it well, said our Think Indie, Drink Indie tech experts. Jo Gilbert reports

Through the virtual looking glass with Nicolas Feuillatte

Published: 17 July, 2017

Popping on a pair of virtual reality eye-goggles isn’t what I’m used to doing before a vertical tasting.

How well do you know your wine myths?

Published: 22 June, 2017

Ours is an industry based as much on stories as it is winemaking, and people as much as the wine itself.

Getting ahead in the digital shelf war

Published: 08 June, 2017

With the mind-bogglingly fast growth of online channels, which in the context of many thousands of years of bartering and selling, is still a very new phenomenon, we scope out the e-specialists claiming to help your products fly online.

Ecommerce: What’s the potential for wine?

Published: 12 May, 2017

Jo Gilbert looks at how big the online proposition really is and why the UK is at the forefront of wine online

Nickolls & Perks invests in new software to double online sales

Published: 28 March, 2017

Independent wine and spirit merchant Nickolls & Perks has invested in new wine specific software as part of a strategy to double its online sales in the next two years.

Wine labels of the future

Published: 20 March, 2017

Wine labels of the future will increasingly have a link to a website or QR bar code which could be scanned with phones to reveal the ingredients, calories and nutritional value of wine, but far less likely is any further legal obligation to fully disclose ingredients.