Riesling is back in fashion
Riesling has become one of Britain’s trendiest wines.
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Wine News Archive
English sparkling wine venture planned with Duval-Leroy
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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Pichon's second wine gets screwcap closure
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 allows global grapes
Rioja’s white wines will in future be able to include Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Verdejo.
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UK poised to be top EU wine spenders
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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Information overload a worry for UK wine labels
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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Prince's painting makes a splash on Bordeaux bottle
A watercolour painted by Prince Charles has been chosen for the label of Chateau Mouton Rothschild’s latest release.
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Majestic's fine wine boosts festive sales
Majestic had a bumper Christmas period, with fine wine sales helping the company fight off competition from the supermarkets.
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New appointment for Aussie GI role
Australia’s Geographical Indications are to be looked after by a new Registrar of Protected Names.
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Chateau d'Yquem collection goes for record price
A record price has been paid for a unique collection of 135 bottles of Chateau d’Yquem.
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Zork wine closure pops into UK
A new wine closure that seals like a screwcap but pops like a cork has arrived in the UK.
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Mild weather threatens Canada's ice wine harvest
The ice wine harvest in Canada is the latest victim of the effects of global warming.
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TastingBuddy takes wine notes
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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Loch Ness wine less of a myth than the monster!
Global warming could mean Britain has vineyards as far north as Scotland by the end of this century.
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Aussie drought lops grape harvest
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 heart-healthy red?
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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Wine investment is a safe bet if you like wine!
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 trains consumers to drink its wines
Argento has six-month sampling campaign to promote its new wines.
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Aussies launch new wine containers
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 yields are on the increase to meet demand.
Champagne producers have been given the green light to increase yields as a future insurance policy against bad harvests.
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French primary children to get wine education!
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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Foster's vineyards in the Yarra Valley hit by Phylloxera
Phylloxera, the insect pest that decimated Bordeaux’s vineyards in the 1860s, has hit Australia’s Yarra Valley.
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The wine diet book explains healthy wine drinking
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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Which Magazine loves own label fizz but not Moet and Chandon
The best supermarket own-label champagnes have beaten many well-known and more expensive brands in a blind tasting test.
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Oak chips are ok for Europe but not for France
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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Court rules against lower duty for web wine
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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Oddbins offer free ferry trip
Boozecruisers who want to stock up before Christmas are being offered a free return ferry daytrip across the Channel by Oddbins.
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Zinfandel under the microscope
A team in the US is conducting research into the diversity of the Zinfandel grape.
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Champagne reports an excellent harvest
Champagne has reported a wonderful harvest in quality as well as quantity. The news is a relief to producers who need to meet a continuing growth in sales, up seven per cent on last year.
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Fine wine sales in the UK are on the up
Wine drinkers are getting a taste for fine wine, according to recent sales figures. Majestic has seen sales of bottles at £20 and above soar.
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Resveratrol in red wine may help fight obesity and diabetes
The component in red wine that has been shown to protect against heart disease may offer other health benefits too.
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Wine writer goes independent
The Independent on Sunday has scrapped its drinks column, which was written by Richard Ehrlich for almost a decade.
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Eastern consumers developing a taste for wine
With the Asian wine market growing by leaps and bounds, the rest of the wine world is looking to getting a piece of the alcoholic action.
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New Zealand Pinot Gris production is growing fast.
Up until now New Zealand wine has been synonymous with Sauvignon Blanc but a new grape pretender is waiting in the wings. The white Pinot Gris, looks set to take the world by storm.
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English wine harvest is a corker
The UK wine harvest looks set potentially to produce an excellent vintage. English producers were upbeat about the results.
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Robert Parker hires Essex boy for a British view on wine
The world’s most influential wine critic Robert Parker has hired a little-known English writer to comment on wine from a UK perspective.
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Croatia the home of Zinfandel!
A virtually unpronounceable grape variety has answered the question about whether Zinfandel and Primativo are one and the same. The Croatian crljenak kastelanski has been found to be genetically identical to both California’s Zinfandel and Italy’s Primati
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London's first Fairtrade wine tasting
The first-ever Fairtrade Wine Tasting takes place in London this week. Oz Clarke will be on hand to talk to visitors at the event, which is hoped will become an annual one.
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The Wine Show caps last years event
The Wine Show held in London last weekend was the successful second show and had 18 per cent more visitors than last year, which, say the show’s organisers, ‘reflects consumers’ increasing interest in wine.
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Canadian wine maker advertising to satellites.
Jost Vineyards in Nova Scotia Canadian has woven the company name and a wine bottle into the vineyards in a crop-circle like incarnation so that it can be seen on Google Earth’s satellite views of the area.
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Thresher employ chef to show they know about wine
Gordon Ramsay has become the face of wine chain Thresher. The Michelin-starred superchef and TV star will appear on posters in the stores’ windows alongside the strapline ‘Wines you can swear by’.
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New World winemakers go carbon zero
The New Zealand Wine Company has become the first in the world to produce totally carbon-neutral wines. The makers of Grove Mill and Sanctuary in Marlborough wanted to minimise the environmental impact of carbon-dioxide emissions from all aspects of their
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South Africa applies to start research into GM Wine
Stellenbosch University has applied to the South African Government to grow genetically modified grapes in field trials. The hope is that GM grapevines will produce grapes that are resistant to fungus.
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Beaujolais gets Nouveau campaign
Beaujolais wine is set for a big new promotional campaign to be launched at this year’s London Wine Show.
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Italians say ciao to Tocai
This year’s Tocai vintage is the last one allowed to be called Tocai because from next year Hungary has exclusive rights to the name. This was part of Hungary’s agreement on joining the EU in 2004.
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Spirits switching results in fine
A Thai restaurant in Cambridgeshire has been fined after passing off cheap booze as Smirnoff and Barcardi.
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No wine please, I'm pregnant & French!
French wine bottles are to carry health warnings telling pregnant women of the dangers of drinking alcohol.
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Wollaston, the oldest UK vineyard?
The first proven Roman vineyard has been discovered in Britain at Wollaston in Northamptonshire. The site dates from the 2nd century AD.
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Vin de Constance a hit with Napoleon and chef Michel Roux
Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux has written a cookery book with all the recipes designed to go with one single wine - Vin de Constance.
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Italians in a tizz over canned fizz
Paris Hilton was caught up in a row in Italy last week as she promoted Rich Prosecco, a canned version of the country’s traditional sparkling white wine.
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