Decanter raises over £25k for charity
Decanter presented a £25,500 cheque to the charity WaterAid this week after raising the sum through the Decanter World Wine Awards.
Decanter presented a £25,500 cheque to the charity WaterAid this week after raising the sum through the Decanter World Wine Awards.
French drinks giant Pernod Ricard has confirmed it is looking to buy UK-based counterpart Allied Domecq.
The Institute of Masters of Wine will host an inaugural seminar on Biodynamic wines next week in an effort to unveil some of the ‘mysticism’ surrounding the practice.
Terroir plays no part in the production of great wines, a report to be presented to the Royal Economic Society in Nottingham will say today.
UK Chancellor Gordon Brown has again targeted the wine trade with a 4p tax hike on a bottle of wine prompting many in the trade to rail against his 2005 budget.
Decanter raised £100,000 for charity last night at a dinner at the Royal Opera House, attracting a host of stars of wine and opera.
US$1.46m (€1.1m) was raised for charity at the ninth Premiere Napa Valley auction on Saturday, with one 5-case lot going for a staggering US$50,000.
Sideways – which is rapidly becoming the world’s most talked-about wine movie - scooped the Oscar for best adapted screenplay in Los Angeles last night.
Oscar-tipped wine film Sideways is dramatically affecting wine sales in the US, according to leading market analyst ACNielsen.
Harpers, the UK’s oldest wine magazine, has been bought by an American ex-pharmaceutical company as part of a wider deal involving Harpers’ parent company, Highbury House.
It is with sadness that decanter.com reports the deaths of two great winemakers.
Dave West, playboy owner of the cut-price Calais wine warehouse Eastenders, is to open a new members-only club in London’s exclusive Mayfair district.
Former William Pitters boss Bernard Magrez is actively stalking the world’s finest properties with his coffers bulging after the sale of his spirits business.
William Pitters, the spirits group founded by Bordeaux entrepreneur Bernard Magrez, has been sold to French drinks group Marie Brizard it emerged today.
A group of top wine journalists will be assembling at some of Europe's best, and highest, ski resorts this weekend - strictly for oenological purposes.
The wine world has already started cashing in on the success of wine-geek film Sideways with winebid.com putting wines from the film up for auction.
UK wine retailer Thresher is aiming to ‘demystify’ fine wine with a prestige collection including some of the best names in New and Old World wines.
The long-running Chanson fraud case was concluded today with the two ex-directors of the Burgundy négociant being found guilty of deceit and falsification.
Seven town centres across France will be invaded today by winemakers protesting the handling of the French wine crisis - this morning thousands of people have already taken over the centre of Avignon, and around 3000 protesters have arrived in Mâcon.
In a first for the wine world, London’s Royal Opera House and Decanter will host a dinner combining great wine, opera and a charity auction.
Brother Timothy Diener, one of the pioneers of California winemaking, has died aged 94.
The French government is ‘demonising’ wine with a ‘quasi-scientific’ and alarmist advertising campaign, France’s top wine professionals claim.
The world’s largest bottle of wine was sold for US$55,812 (£30,138) at Sotheby’s in New York at the weekend.
French newspaper Le Figaro has published a 20-step guide to getting France out of its current wine crisis.
Seventy-six Bordeaux châteaux excluded from the 2003 cru bourgeois classification have had their declassification declared void.
In one afternoon Decanter has raised nearly £15,000 at Christie’s for the charity WaterAid.
French winemakers are planning a national ‘day of action’ which will see them stage demonstrations across France on 8 December.
Jim Barry, the pioneering Clare Valley winemaker and producer of the legendary Armagh Shiraz, has died aged 79.
The procedure of classifying the Médoc cru bourgeois was ‘not impartial’ and ‘tainted with illegality’ according to a French government representative at a Bordeaux tribunal this week.
French deputies have voted to amend the controversial Evin law by a massive majority.