Wine International magazine sold
UK wine magazine Wine International has been sold to William Reed publishing as part of a £2.2m deal, it emerged today.
UK wine magazine Wine International has been sold to William Reed publishing as part of a £2.2m deal, it emerged today.
A cheap supermarket Champagne has outperformed a host of top-brand, non-vintage Champagnes at a UK wine tasting.
Venerable London wine merchant Berry Brothers & Rudd has opened its fourth Heathrow boutique in the giant airport’s Terminal 2.
Christian Delpeuch called on producers to limit the yields of this year’s Bordeaux harvest to counter the plunging price of the region’s wine.
The first grapes of the 2005 Bordeaux harvest were picked yesterday at Château Haut-Brion.
Wine consumption in the UK has increased by 23% over the past 5 years, according to a report published today.
It’s the kind of clichéd celebration generally reserved for victorious sportsmen but spraying Champagne has apparently become the new yuppie sport.
The Beaujolais wine trade body, Inter Beaujolais, has begun a €4m, three-year plan to increase awareness of its wines in the US.
Award-winning UK chef Rick Stein OBE has lambasted French wine, saying the majority of it is mediocre.
Top Champagne producer Moët & Chandon has announced it is to sell 15ha of vineyards in a bid to buy more vines for its Dom Pérignon wine.
Champagne Taittinger is set to return to its former owners, according to rumours in the French financial world this morning.
The man behind the so-called ‘French paradox’ has received France’s highest distinction, the Legion d’Honneur.
Thornbury Wines, the much-lauded New Zealand wine company, has been bought by compatriot Villa Maria for an undisclosed sum.
Jacques Chirac will be forced to eat his words at EU summit meetings this year as Brussels begins serving only British food and wine for the duration of Britain’s EU presidency.
A tiny but significant change has come about in Americans’ drinking habits: wine has overtaken beer as the nation’s favourite alcoholic drink.
Tests in Alsace using genetically modified rootstocks were given the go-ahead by the French agriculture ministry last week.
The 44% owner of Lanson International has gone public with the decision to sell its stake, according to reports published yesterday.
A wine magazine for women who can’t cope with the intellectual rigours of serious publications is on its way.
Decanter writer John Stimpfig scooped the top gong at the inaugural Louis Roederer International Wine Writer’s Awards.
A French magazine fined two years ago for calling Beaujolais a ‘vin de merde’ has had the original libel decision overturned by the court of appeal.
Police in the Languedoc-Roussillon are ‘very scared’ that the actions of the CRAV will result in serious injury or death.
The Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur Union has launched a new line of wines aimed at the young adult market and only available through the internet.
The winner of this year’s Geoffrey Roberts Award will use her bursary to help fishermen in south Sri Lanka regain their livelihoods.
Click here for France3 video feed Amidst lurid scenes of extraordinary violence in the south of France demonstrators have vowed to increase the pressure until the government caves in to their demands.
Forget En Primeur - the most authoritative notes from the Bordeaux barrel tastings come from the little-known UK website wine-journal.com
A biochemist based in Burgundy has invented a kit that promises to remove cork taint from a contaminated bottle of wine in under one hour.
A splinter group of disaffected winemakers in the south of France is thought to be responsible for a horrifying attack on a Spanish wine tanker on Wednesday night.
French actress Carole Bouquet says the 2004 vintage will be her last in Bordeaux.
Pernod Ricard is set to become the world’s second largest drinks company after a bid to buy UK-based Allied Domecq was accepted last night.
The UK can now rightfully boast that it is the world’s culinary leader after 14 British-based restaurants made it into the list of the world’s top 50 eateries.