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The week that was

Top Stories: This week marked the launch of a new-look competition format for England and Wales’ wine industry, where a few names scooped lots of the top awards.

Elsewhere, we reported that Conviviality’s acquisition of Bibendum PLB last year paid off for the mega-distributor, and Flint Wines’ Jason Haynes took the temperature of Burgundy’s 2016 and 2017 vintages.

• Profit more than doubles at Conviviality
• Champagne Warehouse sets up dedicated on-trade and indies arm
• Bolney scoops top prize at inaugural UK Wine Awards
• Burgundy report: Good weather bodes well for 2017 following 2016 shortages
• Value Australian exports to the UK decline while growth in China soars
• The Rise of The Algarve
  
  

New Launches: Range expansions came in many forms this week, and included some of the trade’s biggest names, such as London-based merchant Friarwood and a collaboration between Tesco and Copestick Murray.  

• Friarwood adds new Italian producers
• Castro’s rum heads to London
• Tesco launches Copestick Murray collaboration
  
  

Analysis and Insights: Lisa Riley tracked the growth of enotourism while Jo Gilbert asked how independents could get the most of being online with limited budgets.

• On the tourist trail 
• Getting online: Keeping up with the Amazons 
  
  

People and Opinion: This week our columnist Jerry Lockspeiser gave us his thoughts on the divisively competitive nature of the market and how the clarion call for wine purveyors should be “who dares wins” rather than “one for all and all for one”. 

• Jerry Lockspeiser: There is no such thing as the wine trade 
  
  
  
  

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