Wine

Budget 2020

Pubs win in Budget 2020 with significant financial support

11-Mar-2020 By Nicholas Robinson

Teetotal Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak paid critical attention to the pub trade in the release of his 2020 Budget today (11 March), as the sector braces itself for a hammering by coronavirus.

Budget 2020

Budget 2020 – Duty increase on beer, cider, wine and spirits frozen

11-Mar-2020 By MA Reporters

Freeze on alcohol duties and business rates on pubs with rateable value under £51,000 abolished. Plus, national living wage to rise to £10.50 per hour by 2024. Here is a blow-by-blow account of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak's first Budget.

Wine duty ‘disproportionately penalises’ women

02-Mar-2020 By Alice Leader

Duty decisions focusing on beer is having an “unfair” impact on wine drinkers, thereby hitting its main consumer, women, harder than it does men, new insight shows.

Vine-tuning your pub’s wine offer

02-Mar-2020 By Emily Hawkins

With some reports suggesting wine sales are down, what can pubs do to revive their offers and ensure they are making the most of the drink?

Orange wine ‘one of the fastest growing categories’

24-Feb-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Wine from Eastern Mediterranean regions and orange variants have been dubbed as the trends for pubs to keep an eye on this year.

Brakes and Bibendum to join forces

11-Feb-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

Foodservice business Brakes has launched an alliance with wine and spirits distributor Bibendum.

Consumers need more education to push wine sales

04-Feb-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

Licensees must educate consumers with recommendations, tastings, menus and other tools to bolster wine sales, a new report has stated.

Wine and spirit duty cut ‘needed to stem pub closures’

31-Jan-2020 By Emily Hawkins

The Government has been urged to cut wine and spirit duty by the Wine & Spirit Trade Association, a move it says will benefit pubs.

Drink Tank

Launch Roulette: Grape news on ice

09-Jan-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Rebel Pi founder and former contestant on The Apprentice Jackie Fast proved that producing ice wine was a cool idea by winning the honour of ‘best pitch’ at the inaugural Drink Tank

English sparkling wine sales fizz

03-Jan-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Champagne sales in pubs have dropped in the past year with consumers looking to other varieties of sparkling wines instead.

Drinks List 2020

Jack Rabbit Pinot Grigio still the on-trade’s best-selling wine

26-Nov-2019 By Stuart Stone

Four Jack Rabbit pours cemented their place among the 10 most sold wines in the UK on-trade, with The Morning Advertiser’s latest Drinks List revealing increases to both sales volume and value.

Drinks list 2020

The Drinks List: Top Brands to Stock 2020

26-Nov-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Getting to grips with data in The Morning Advertiser’s Drinks List 2019 will give operators a head start in formulating successful drinks menus.

Wine sales plummet £146m in the on-trade

13-Nov-2019 By Alice Leader

Wine sales have slipped by £146m within the on-trade in the past year, with 17% of consumers saying they are drinking less wine than they were a year ago.

‘Government hell-bent’ on ignoring wine and spirits sector

23-Sep-2019 By Emily Hawkins

The UK Government has neglected the importance of the wine sector to the country’s economy, according to the head of the wine and spirits association (WSTA).

Wine sales still in decline

03-Sep-2019 By Nikkie Thatcher

Total wine and Champagne volume sales in the UK remain in decline and have dropped by 2.4% year on year in pubs, according to new figures.