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Gordon Brown today announced a bigger than usual increase on wine. Still wines will rise by 5p a bottle to £1.34/bottle while sparkling wine has risen by 7p a bottle.
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UK wine drinkers love Rioja, according to the latest figures.
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The wine societies of Oxford and Cambridge universities are making a bid to have wine tasting declared an official sport.
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Australia is to reintroduce anti-dumping duties on imported French brandy in a bid to provide fairer competition for its own product.
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US authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the sale of counterfeit wine at auction and have subpoenaed Christie’s in London and Zachys in New York as well as some big collectors of rare wine.
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Some of the St-Emilion chateaux demoted in the 2006 classification are going to court to try to have the decision overturned.
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Ernest Gallo, who, with his brother Julio, helped build the American wine industry, died last week aged 97.
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Australian scientists have pinpointed the genetic difference between red and white grapes – a discovery that could lead to the production of new grape varieties.
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Strong sales of Champagne and a growth in the consumption of mid-range and premium wines helped French wine and spirits exports reach record levels in 2006.
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A wine estate in New Zealand’s Wairarapa region has been hit by the vineyard blight phylloxera.
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A pre-historic whale dating back some five million years has been discovered on a vineyard in Tuscany.
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The fear of another grape glut in parts of the New World is disappearing.
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A bottle of Nazi wine with a portrait of Adolf Hitler on the label has sold at auction for £3,995.
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UK Wine Show’s Chris Scott has been shortlisted for the International Wine & Spirit Competition’s Communicator of the Year award.
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Next week sees the start of Fairtrade Fortnight, the annual campaign to encourage consumers to buy products that ensure a better deal for growers in developing countries.
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South African wine producer Vilafonte is filming its 2007 harvest and putting out a daily videocast to give consumers an insight into what’s involved in getting a high-quality red wine to bottle.
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Wine enthusiasts can spend a weekend getting a real taste for Bordeaux at a special event being organised in France this May.
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UK drinkers have more diverse tastes when it comes to wine than consumers in the US.
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A London wine merchant had around £20,000 worth of champagne stolen after a break-in at Balthazar in Fulham.
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A new study by French scientists has found that Concord grape juice may be just as protective against heart disease as red wine.
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Bordeaux has launched a consumer-friendly website in a bid to make its wines more approachable.
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Spend £5 on a bottle of New World wine and you’ll be in right royal company, as it’s been disclosed that the Queen does just that for serving to guests at Palace receptions.
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A new television channel dedicated to selling wine is to launch this spring.
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The shipwreck of the Napoli container vessel could cause problems for the South African wine industry.
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Riesling has become one of Britain’s trendiest wines.
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Decanter magazine’s consultant editor Steven Spurrier and his wife Bella are hoping to team up with Champagne house Duval-Leroy to start a vineyard in the south of England.
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Les Tourelles de Longueville, the second wine of illustrious Second Growth Chateau Pichon-Longueville, is being bottled using screwcap for the restaurant and bar market in the UK.
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Rioja’s white wines will in future be able to include Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Verdejo.
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UK wine drinkers will spend more on still and sparkling wine than any other European country by 2010, according to new research.
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In the current UK debate on wine labels, there is a worry that the consumer will be bombarded with too much information.
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A watercolour painted by Prince Charles has been chosen for the label of Chateau Mouton Rothschild’s latest release.
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Majestic had a bumper Christmas period, with fine wine sales helping the company fight off competition from the supermarkets.
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Australia’s Geographical Indications are to be looked after by a new Registrar of Protected Names.
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A record price has been paid for a unique collection of 135 bottles of Chateau d’Yquem.
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A new wine closure that seals like a screwcap but pops like a cork has arrived in the UK.
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The ice wine harvest in Canada is the latest victim of the effects of global warming.
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There is now a gadget available that enables wine professionals and enthusiasts to record detailed tasting notes on a mobile phone or pocket PC.
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Global warming could mean Britain has vineyards as far north as Scotland by the end of this century.
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Australia’s continuing drought looks likely to reduce the 2007 grape harvest by around 20 per cent, according to the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation.
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Sainsbury’s has launched a new wine called Red Heart that claims to have 32 per cent more antioxidants than the average red wine.
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There is certainly a case for investing in wine, according to new research by economists at the University of Wyoming.
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Argento has six-month sampling campaign to promote its new wines.
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The Australians aren’t just busy making wine, they are also busy developing new types of containers to put their wine in.
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Champagne producers have been given the green light to increase yields as a future insurance policy against bad harvests.
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Along with learning how to read and write, French primary schoolchildren could soon be having wine appreciation classes as part of their curriculum.
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Phylloxera, the insect pest that decimated Bordeaux’s vineyards in the 1860s, has hit Australia’s Yarra Valley.
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A wine diet might sound like an oxymoron but a new book, published this week, argues the case for drinking moderate amounts of red wine every day as part of a healthy lifestyle.
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The best supermarket own-label champagnes have beaten many well-known and more expensive brands in a blind tasting test.
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Two months after the EU finally legalised the use of oak chips in winemaking, the French have taken the decision to go against the grain by banning their use for appellation controlee wines.
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Shoppers hoping to buy cut-price alcohol from other European countries via the internet were disappointed last week when judges in Luxembourg ruled that the tax laws which have benefited British cross-Channel customers won’t be extended to web ones.
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