With Penfolds celebrating its 180th anniversary this year, chief winemaker Peter Gago talks exclusively to Jo Gilbert about the iconic wine producer’s past, present and future.
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During the 1990’s my business sold millions of bottles of great value Hungarian wines to the UK’s supermarkets. The wines were made under the guidance of a young Australian winemaker whose hands on approach ensured they bristled with ripe fruit flavours. Retailing at the equivalent of £6-£8 at today’s prices they went down a storm in the high-volume part of the burgeoning wine market.
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Jason Millar gets serious about the upper end of a popular category.
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Ben Franks, co-founder of The Canned Wine Co on how the trade could be attracting talent and investment to give wine a much-needed boost.
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New business H&K Wine Agencies is building a portfolio from along the ancient Phoenician trade routes. Andrew Catchpole has an exclusive chat about their plans.
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Last month’s English Wine Week kicked off with two high-profile but contrasting events. First, the august members’ club 67 Pall Mall held a glitzy industry lunch for producers, trade and media. Nineteen different English wines were poured
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Andrew Catchpole meets a boutique importer of high-quality Chinese wines which could change perception of this country’s winemaking abilities.
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The Italian wine company has been working on a unique rehabilitation programme for inmates of Gorgona prison. By James Bayley.
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I like to consider myself an open minded, flexible kind of guy. But when I ran businesses I could sense the shutters coming down every time we had a management discussion about how much to spend on marketing.
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Jason Millar flags the joy of the unknown in a post-varietal world.
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With a new shop opening at Vineyard Cellars, Joe Rubin-Broad is adding yet more strings to his bow.
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At first sight, it looked like a PR disaster. Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, was filmed falling off a paddleboard into Lake Windermere five times. He’s a middle-aged bloke with a paunch and no sense of balance. Politicians do all sorts of silly things by mistake – members of the public can ambush them too – but Sir Ed’s aquatic pratfall was deliberate. He’s done a number of similar things campaigning for July’s general election.
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Tony Edwards decries the ‘relentless official demonisation of alcohol’, which is at odds with much medical evidence.
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Andrew Catchpole asks Pablo Vega Puyol, people & sustainability manager at Morandé Wine Group, why waste management is important and how smaller producers can best implement their own programme.
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Campania icon Feudi di San Gregorio’s old vine project has landed the 2024 Old Vine Hero Award for Research. Jason Millar catches up with the estate’s president to find out more.
Every Monday an email newsletter entitled “Ten things you didn’t know last week” drops into my inbox. It comes from leadership development consultancy TEN led by William Montgomery, a former naval officer and head of strategic change at Lloyds TSB. The newsletter reveals pertinent facts reported in the media about recent societal trends, providing bite sized topical insights into the world in which we do business.
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Jason Millar focuses on the Calabrian DOC, highlighting the recent Cirò Revolution tasting in London.
With quality canned wines firmly on the rise, Andrew Catchpole visits one of the most innovative in the business.
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It has, I admit, taken me rather a long time to take 0% alcohol wines seriously. I’ve long been sceptical about their quality. But I’ve finally got my head around their importance. Why? Because I’ve managed to navigate that key stumbling block that trips up many a middle-aged man – the fact that I am not the target market.
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Andrew Catchpole argues that the trade needs to take a firmer stance against the growing anti-alcohol lobby.
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