Ianthe Butt: My 'below-cost' booze odyssey
20-Jan-2011
Tesco, Blackfriars The cheapest wine on offer was a £3.63 Italian Merlot, a good £1.60 more than the minimum price of £2.03. FAIL Costco, Waterloo...
Live web chat with Bernard Hickin of Jacob's Creek at 1pm today
19-Jan-2011
As the new chief winemaker at Jacob's Creek, Bernard Hickin is at the forefront of Australian winemaking. Supervising the process from vineyard to...
17-Dec-2010 By Gurjit Degun
A Coventry-based licensee has turned his hand to producing wine to go with spicy foods — Balwinder Thukral has launched Nasha Wines.
Majestic Wine focuses on on-trade
16-Dec-2010 By Gurjit Degun
Majestic Wine has launched a commercial arm to focus on wine sales to the on-trade. Majestic Commercial has a dedicated website with vintage charts...
16-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Wine sales are growing in value in pubs, clubs and restaurants as well as in supermarkets, despite a fall in volume. On-trade wine sales were up...
Drinks Product Launches of the Year: We have lift-off
13-Dec-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
Christmas - it's the time of year where it's out with the old and in with the new. The scruffy old slippers with the hole in the right toe, and...
10-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Enterprise Inns lessee Gerry Price is opening a speciality wine and spirit shop next to his pub early next year. Price, who runs the Inn at West End...
06-Dec-2010 By Robyn Black
Pernod Ricard has launched a marketing campaign for its New Zealand wine brand Brancott Estate. A TV advertising campaign on ITV1, Channel 4, Sky...
26-Nov-2010 By Michelle Perrett
Despite the recession affecting the Champagne category, there is plenty of profit potential in offering customers fizz, reports Michelle Perrett.
'Middle aged women who enjoy a couple of glasses of wine a day 'have a healthier old age'
17-Nov-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A couple of glasses of wine a day in mid-life could make women healthier in old age, research suggests. Scientists say moderate drinking can lead to...
Chapel Down does fizzness for charity
01-Nov-2010 By Robyn Black
Chapel Down has created a blend of its sparkling wine for the Demelza Hospice Care for Children charity. Working with the charity's CEO, Ted...
Rekorderlig targets mulled wine market
22-Oct-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
The cider, made from apple, vanilla and cinnamon, can be served warm or cold. Bartenders are encouraged to add Grand Marnier or Cointreau to it to...
Sparkling Wine Focus: Selling the sparkle
13-Oct-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
For a long time, Champagne has been synonymous with style and sophistication. Boutique Champagne house Perrier-Jouët's prestige cuvée Belle Epoque,...
Jacob's Creek returns to Wimbledon
12-Oct-2010 By Robyn Black
Jacob's Creek is to replace Blossom Hill as the official wine of Wimbledon next year. It is the second time the Australian wine brand has sponsored...
Heritage Wine has an online advantage
01-Oct-2010
The guides have been designed to help pubs, bars and restaurants to better choose wine, as well as providing a convenient way of fitting wine...
Molson Coors offers Chapel Down UK wine
24-Sep-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
Wines from award-winning English wine producer Chapel Down are now available through Molson Coors (UK). Sparkling wines from the Kent-based producer,...
Jeremy Beadles: Off-trade is not the enemy
23-Sep-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Cast your minds back to January 2009. Barack Obama was inaugurated into the White House and the Icelandic banking system had just fallen off a cliff....
High hopes for low-ABV wine range
09-Sep-2010 By Sonya Hook
Botany Creek, a new 7.5% ABV wine, will target the original generation of RTD drinkers
'Wine glass that can hold an entire bottle 'promotes heavier and irresponsible drinking''
31-Aug-2010
Wine glasses that can hold an entire bottle 'promotes heavier and irresponsible drinking' say doctors. The 9in tall glass can hold an entire 750ml...
31-Aug-2010 By Sonya Hook
English wine is to become a major feature of one south-west London pub from next month. The owners of the Bricklayer's Arms in Putney were so...
Pernod Ricard's festive plans
27-Aug-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
Pernod Ricard has unveiled marketing plans to "drive premium" across its key brands in the build-up to Christmas, including a range of television...
Hardys wine sponsors Channel 4's first iPhone app
26-Aug-2010 By Robyn Black
Hardys wine and Channel 4 are to launch the TV channel's first iPhone app, for its popular Come Dine With Me show as part of a muti-million pound campiagn
Warning as mandatory code part two nears
24-Aug-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A trade group has issued a reminder to licensees to be ready for the next stage of the mandatory code on alcohol sales. The second stage of the...
The making of a champion
12-Aug-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
Seven years ago in the East Midlands, all the local breweries were challenged to create a special beer for the Nottingham beer festival. It was 2003...
06-Aug-2010 By Robyn Black
Chilean wine brand Casillero del Diablo will be the official wine sponsor of a series of outdoor picnic concerts this summer. The brand's producer,...
Matthew Clarke sells Forth Wines
05-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ
Matthew Clarke, the drinks distributor, has sold its Forth Wines business to a consortium of ex-trade figures for an undisclosed sum. Backed by RBS...
04-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Drinks wholesaler Matthew Clark, partly owned by Punch Taverns, has sold its Scottish wine merchant business Forth Wines to a group of senior...
30-Jul-2010 By Robyn Black
Wine supplier Enotria is rolling out its new wine training scheme for bar staff following a successful trial with M&B brand Village Pub & Kitchen.
Pubs warned over champagne scam
30-Jul-2010
Pubs are being warned about a fresh wave of email scams involving orders for expensive champagne. Fraudsters are believed to be targeting pubs and...
Wine Focus: Beating the great wine buff bluff...
29-Jul-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
There's a Michael McIntyre sketch that sums up perfectly the confusion and terror caused when ordering wine. "When the waiter comes and says would...
23-Jul-2010 By Sonya Hook
ICB's entry-level The Italian Job wine is to be made available in a sealed Tulip wine-glass format. The Italian Job Tulip, made from high quality...
Wine trends: In vine fettle
21-Jul-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
When it comes to wine, few Brits will admit that they don't know whether Rioja is a grape or a region. But there's no denying we have a taste for it...
Sales of rosé soar in pubs
13-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Rosé wine has continued to grow in popularity with sales in pubs and bars increasing by 20 per cent over the last year. The figures from the Wine...
'Fury over Tesco's £1.11 bottle of wine'
09-Jul-2010 By James Wilmore
Britain's biggest supermarket is being accused of encouraging binge drinking by selling bottles of wine for just £1.11. Tesco has supported a...
Retired licensee is crowned community champ
05-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A former licensee who has continued showing his commitment to the trade has been crowned the winner in an Everards competition. Patrick Thurlby from...
New design for Chambord bottle
29-Jun-2010
French black raspberry liqueur Chambord has changed the face of its bottle for the first time in a quarter of a century. Chambord's previous bottle...
25-Jun-2010 By Robyn Black
New Zealand wine brand Montana will be ditching its name from October this year, to reappear as Brancott Estate. Brand-owner Pernod Ricard is making...
21-Jun-2010 By Robyn Black
Wine supplier Bibendum has signed up an Indian winery to try and crack the curry market. Grover Vineyards is based an hour's drive north of...
Profits flow for Majestic Wine
14-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Halving the minimum number of bottles customers are required to buy from 12 to six has boosted sales for Majestic Wine, the off-license wine...
South African wines set to get World Cup boost
07-Jun-2010
The World Cup could help South African wine become one of the most up and coming wine producing countries for the on-trade this year, according to...
04-Jun-2010 By Sonya Hook
Blossom Hill is injecting £1m in to a summer campaign hinged around its sponsorship of Wimbledon. The marketing initiative is designed to position...
02-Jun-2010 By Robyn Lewis
Brewer Molson Coors has beefed up its wine offer, as part of a bid to double its share of the wine market over the next two years. Last week the...
01-Jun-2010 By John Harrington
Tesco is the only supermarket to sell alcohol below duty plus VAT, the definition of cost-price favoured by many in the off-trade — including the...
28-May-2010 By Sonya Hook
New wine-producing countries were the unexpected winners in the International Wine & Spirits Competition (IWSC).
24-May-2010 By Sonya Hook
Action needs to be taken to halt the decline of on-trade wine sales, according to research consultancy Wine Intelligence.
'Tesco could still sell booze below cost'
23-May-2010
Last week Tesco declared it was prepared to stop selling alcohol below cost price and would back the imposition of minimum prices. But a spokesman...
18-May-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Two English wines were awarded gold medals at the International Wine Challenge (IWC).
Wine focus: Get to grips with the grape
13-May-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
Good news: wine isn't complicated, matching food with wine is simple, and regardless of what high-brow wine buffs might say about their expert...
First ever sparkling wine training by Codorníu
13-May-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The first sparkling wine category training programme for the on-trade has been launched by Spanish sparkling wine brand Codorníu. The company...
11-May-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Punch is hosting wine tasting roadshows for its tenants and lessees to mark the launch of its new wine list yesterday. The new wine offer comprises...
