UK wne drinkers are buying more £6-7 wines
Sales of the £6 to £7 bottles of wine were up 27 per cent in supermarkets in the past year, making it the fastest-growing price band in the UK.
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Wine News Archive
New Zealand wine sales in the UK grow by 23%
Sales of Kiwi wine are growing by leaps and bounds in the UK. According to recent figures released by market analyst Nielsen, we’ve been buying 23 per cent more New Zealand wine in the past year.
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Georgia looks to export to the UK
The Prime Minister, Zurab Nogaideli, was in the UK promoting Rkatsiteli and Napareuli Gerogian grape vartities last week in a bid to find new markets after a political move by Russia to ban the importation of its wine.
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Tempranillo is proven to be Tinto Fino, Tinto de Toro and Tinta del Pais
Spain’s favourite black grape Tempranillo could truly be unique. Tinto Fino, Tinto de Toro and Tinta del Pais were always thought to be Tempranillo by another name but now Spanish winemakers have discovered that they are all different clones.
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Chris Scott from ThirtyFifty launches the UK first podcast The UK wine show
The UK wine show was launched on Friday. The first UK based podcast, Chris Scott the shows host and producer said We have been planning the show for 3 months and it feels great to get the first show out the door.
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1976 California tasting is being repeated 30 years after putting New World wines on the map
In 1976 at the historic Paris Wine Tasting of French & Californian wines the Californian wines were voted superior to their French counterparts. This tasting really put Californian & New World wines on the map. The tasting has just been re-run with the ex
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Lanson launches World Cup Champagne
Lanson has launched a World Cup Champagne in an attempt to lure footie fans away from lager.
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The world's 2nd largest wine company becomes a family vineyard
You won’t be seeing Ernest & Julio on Gallo labels for much longer as the Californian wine company is changing its name to Gallo Family Vineyards. The move is designed to underline that Gallo is still a family-owned and family-run company.
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40% of Oz wineries are losing money
The sun may be shining in Australia but there’s a big black cloud over its wine industry as the oversupply of grapes and price-squeezing by powerful retailers take their toll.
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Hangover free alcohol a thing of the future?
It could be history for hangovers. Wine drinkers could one day be free to enjoy a few glasses without fear of that morning-after feeling as scientists have discovered it’s possible to make hangover-free alcohol.
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Fruit flavoured wines set to arrive in UK from Oz
If Australians have their way, wines infused with fruit flavours, such as strawberry, peach and passionfruit could soon be turning up in the UK after being well-received in Oz
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Dom Perignon auction 1966 Champagne
A bottle of 1966 Dom Perignon is up for auction this month at Sotheby’s in London signed by all the surviving members of the winning 1966 team. The bottle is estimated at £5,000 to £8,000
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EU plans to cut the funding that turns the French wine lake into Biofuel
The European Commission is introducing reform proposals with the hope of reducing the European wine lake and minimise European taxpayers’ money that turns wine into biofuel!
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Survey says most wine drinkers don't return faulty wine
You’ve bought a bottle of wine that’s corked or faulty, so do you take it back to the shop and complain. Which? asked nearly 3,000 members whether they’d ever had a faulty wine and found that 47 per cent had, but nearly a quarter of them hadn’t sent or ta
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French restructures wine industry
France’s new action plan designed to win back ground from the New World. With the aim of modernising the French wine industry and stemming declining sales, French farm minister Dominique Bussereau announced a restructuring package worth 80 million euros.
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Bordeaux vintage hailed as one of the best
Bordeaux’s 2005 vintage is being hailed as the one of the best ever. Even the influential wine critic Robert Parker is raving about it, saying, ‘the wines are unlike any I have tasted in 28 years of doing these tastings.’
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Global warming a bonus for the UK winemakers
Global warming a bonus for the UK winemakers according to climatologist Gregory Jones from Southern Oregon University. The growing seasons in the northern part of France and southern England are projected to warm 1.3 – 1.6 degrees Centigrade by 2050
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Brad Pitt looking at Italian winery
Brad Pitt is looking to buy a vineyard in Barolo northern Italy
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Bordeaux producers break with tradition
La Terre is a Bordeaux-branded wine, offering a straight red Merlot and a white Sauvignon Blanc, rather than the Bordeaux blends for which the region is famous.
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Gordon Brown favours fizz over still wine in budget
Gordon Brown raises the price of wine went by 4p a bottle, but froze the duty on both Champagne and British sparkling wine
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Veuve Clicquot Launch a new Pink wine
Champagne house Veuve Clicquot will be in the pink this week with the launch of its first-ever non-vintage rosé
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Great 2006 vintage in the New World
New World popping corks as this year’s 2006 vintage looks set to be a winner
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UK women still buying Chardonnay
it’s official, women make up the majority of wine drinkers and what they are buying most of is Chardonnay
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Burgundy prices go sky high at recent auction
Burgundy prices go sky high at recent auction Romanee-Conti sold for $170,375, or more than £97,000
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Jeremy Clarkson on South African wine
Jeremy Clarkson rates South African wine as not even fit for filling up windscreen-washer bottles
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Nyetimber Sold to Eric Heerema
Nyetimber, the Sussex-based leading sparkling-wine producer has been sold to wine enthusiast Eric Heerema
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