Booze ban by Boris
Boris Johnson has announced plans to ban alcohol on the capital’s public transport network.
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Wine News Archive
English Wine Week gathers interest
English Wine Week, the countrywide campaign to promote English wines and vineyards, kicks off on Saturday 24th May.
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Morrisons to sell Chinese wine
Morrisons has started to sell Chinese wine
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2005 Bordeaux soaring in value since release, says Berry Bros & Rudd
Berry Bros & Rudd is finding cases of Bordeaux 2005 that it sold ‘en primeur’ have increased in value more than any other vintage between harvest and being shipped to the UK
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Riverina beats drought to produce bumper crop
Riverina, the largest wine-producing region in New South Wales, has harvested a record-breaking crop of grapes
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Wetherspoon attempts wine-tasting record
J D Wetherspoon is inviting customers to take part in the world’s largest wine tasting
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Nyetimber plans leap from boutique to brand
English sparkling wine producer Nyetimber hopes to go from ‘boutique to brand’ now that Stephen Clark has joined the company
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World Atlas of Wine makes Hall of Fame
The World Atlas of Wine has won a Hall of Fame award
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Three Chapel Down wines go exclusively into M&S
English producer Chapel Down has created three wines exclusively for Marks & Spencer.
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Marlborough's harvest is a 'savalanche'
Marlborough has had a huge grape harvest, so big that is locally being referred to as a ‘savalanche’
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WHO aiming for a global strategy to reduce alcohol harm
World Health Organisation (WHO) has agreed a plan to develop a global strategy to reduce the harm caused by alcohol.
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Sainsbury's to help shoppers with Top 10 wines
Sainsbury’s is introducing a Top 10 display to its wine aisles to help customers shop for the right bottle.
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Valpolicella producer favours screwcaps over Classico
Italian producer Allegrini has chosen screwcaps over its Valpolicella Classico denomination.
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Sparkling wine sales soaring more than Champagne
Sparkling wine is bursting Champagne’s bubble here in the UK
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£12 million being spent on getting us to drink Hardys
Hardys is hitting us with a £12 million marketing campaign this year – the most ever to be spent on a wine brand in the UK.
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Aussie wine producers are on the increase
The number of Australian wine producers is on the increase despite all the recent concerns over drought and water restrictions.
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Gearoid Devaney takes UK's top sommelier trophy
Gearoid Devaney from Tom Aikens’ Michelin-starred restaurant in London has won UK Sommelier of the Year 2008.
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US TV wine series host is Communicator of the Year
Karen MacNeil has been named International Wine & Spirit Competition’s 2008 Communicator of the Year.
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Research shows more wine labels feature animals for a reason
Look around the wine shelves and you’ll find that animals on wine labels are becoming pretty common.
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M & S and Waitrose top first own-label awards
Marks & Spencer and Waitrose trumped other supermarkets to take the trophies for the best red and white wines in the Own Label Awards
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C02 emissions similar for lightweight glass and PET bottles, shows study
Putting bulk-imported wine into lightweight glass wine bottles in the UK is broadly no less environmentally friendly than putting it into PET
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French wine brand hopes to compete with New World
A new French national wine label – Vins de Pays Vignobles de France - is finding its way onto shop shelves.
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Yeast find lifts fruity zing of NZ Sauvignon Blanc
Researchers in New Zealand have discovered a wild yeast that increases the fruity qualities of Sauvignon Blanc.
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Pregnant women told not to drink alcohol
Women are now being told that they shouldn’t drink any alcohol during pregnancy
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WineDater service launches for singles who love wine
If you are a single Londoner that likes decent wine and is looking for love, then there’s now a new dating-events service
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Thresher makes plans to improve shops and pricing
High street drinks retailer Thresher Group is to abandon three-for-two on wine and champagne in favour of lower single-bottle prices.
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Aussie producer finds screwcaps keep wines fresher
Australian producer Leeuwin is rebottling older vintages of its Chardonnay under screwcap
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Navarra plans for more than just a rosé future
If you don’t know much about the wines from Navarra, chances are you soon will.
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Waitrose to plant English vineyard
Waitrose is going to plant its own vineyard in England, so that it can start to make sparkling wine in a few year’s time.
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Majestic's Tim How to retire
Tim How, chief executive of Majestic Wines, is to retire with the next year.
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Medical journal debates smaller wine bottles for responsible drinking
Why does wine have to come in 75cl bottles? That’s the debate being raised by the British Medical Journal
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Italians agree name for Tocai
The Italians have resolved the fiasco of what to call the wine that used to go by the name of Tocai.
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Blossom Hill branches out internationally
Californian wine brand Blossom Hill has just gone international with the launch of a range of wines from Italy, Chile and South Africa.
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Sainsbury's launches first own-brand sulphur-free wine
Sainsbury’s has started selling the UK’s first widely distributed wine made without the addition of sulphites.
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Government and supermarkets working on promoting responsible drinking
Women are to be targeted in a government anti-drinking advertising campaign
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UK top destination for Rioja
The UK is the top importing country for Rioja.
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Climate change to alter future grape-growing
Grape-growing is going to change in the future because of global warming.
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Tetrapaks shown to have environmental advantages over glass
Tetrapaks use 80% less energy to produce than glass, making them a good packaging alternative from the environmental point of view.
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Co-op flags Fairtrade Fortnight
The Co-op is highlighting Fairtrade Fortnight, which kicks off on 25th February
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Argentinian Malbec and rosé making their mark
Malbec and rosé were the big success stories last year as far as wine from Argentina is concerned.
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German wine finding favour with UK drinkers
Germany is in a unique position to offer consumers a wine with less punishing levels of alcohol than many other countries’ wines
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Elephant treads grapes for SA wine
A South African wine producer has adopted foot treading for some of its grapes but hardly in the traditional way since the treading is being done by an elephant.
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Jacob's Creek to cut alcohol levels by up to 1%
Jacob’s Creek is planning to lower the alcohol level of its wines to not more than 14%.
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Transportation is only small part of a wine's carbon footprint, say Aussies
Australian wine doesn’t necessarily have a much higher carbon footprint than wine coming from other countries to the UK
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M & S's Pink Port - one for the girls
Marks & Spencer is targeting younger, female drinkers with the launch of a ‘brand new port style’.
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Oddbins to go for case sales like Majestic
Oddbins is to go down the route of Majestic by starting to sell wine by the case in nearly 50 stores later this year.
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ONS takes bigger glasses and stronger wines into consideration
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has updated its methods for calculating wine consumption in drinking surveys
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Alsace producer puts sweetness level on its labels
An Alsace producer is putting the amount of residual sugar on the labels of its Rieslings to help consumers know which wines are sweet and which dry.
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US sparkling wine labelled Champagne destroyed
A shipment of more than 3,200 bottles of Andre sparkling wine made in California was seized and destroyed by Belgian customs authorities
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Italian dispute leaves wine nameless
What do you put on the label of a bottle of wine that doesn’t have a name? That’s the problem right now for producers in Friuli Venezia Giulia
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