As we approach the publication of the second edition of the 2019 Wine List Confidential guide, we profile the winners who picked up the top gongs at this year’s awards ceremony. 

This week in the world of drinks: Bon Jovi’s rosé launches in the UK; Ed Sheeran wins a custody battle; Peter Andre picks up a shovel; and Atul Kochhar joins the roster of chefs Champagne Bollinger has lined up for its latest food and wine pairing project…

New Zealand’s Brancott Estate, owned by Pernod Ricard, has relaunched its 9% ABV wine range in the UK, which claims to have 20% fewer calories than the typical wine produced from the same grape variety.

The owner of Yellow Tail and Peter Lehmann, Casella Family Brands, has stated that it has received a “number of approaches” for its wine brands, but has denied reports that it is mulling a AU$500 million-plus sale.

The French Foreign Legion is one of the most famous fighting forces in the world – and one with a strong taste for drink. In this series we examine the culture and psychology that shaped the drinkable life of a foreign legionnaire.

The story of the Agincourt campaign is usually just of the battle itself and the role of the famous English longbow but it was also a campaign of complex logistics, of which wine was a large and vital element.

In an exclusive interview, Nyetimber owner and CEO Eric Heerema gives a frank account of how he is positioning his pioneering English sparkling wine as a “contemporary luxury British brand”.

Australia’s entire vineyard area has been comprehensively mapped in the country’s first ‘National Vineyard Scan’ and was found to be 8% bigger than previously thought.

A study of a Celtic site in modern Burgundy has examined the extent to which Greek culture influenced local wine drinking and feasting rituals.