Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was mocked in Parliament yesterday after declaring to the house that a bottle of wine costs €30 (£26.79).
“The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the empire.” Winston Churchill more…
Urban winery Renegade London has begun the pre-sale for its new English sparkling wine, a blanc de noirs costing £100 a bottle and which is being aged in a church crypt.
As the wildfires that ravaged large parts of California during the past 10 days begin to die down, we consider the real impact on the wine industry in the immediate future and longer term.
A new export strategy, unveiled yesterday at Fuller’s Griffin Brewery in Chiswick by the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), aims to increase British beer exports by £100 million over the next five years.
This week has included a flying visit to Catalunya for a lesson on climate change at Torres, Copper Rivet Distillery’s early Trafalgar Day celebrations, and a masterclass courtesy of the Madeira Wine Institute.
A Glaswegian couple have made over £800 on a whisky miniature they nearly threw away.
Twenty years ago fine wine was very much an insider’s paradise but this is increasingly not the case and cutting the jargon has to be a priority if companies want to make it more accessible to new investors.
the drinks business is pleased to announce that Edith Hancock has joined the magazine as staff writer.
db’s Lucy Shaw heads to the bonkers but brilliant Ella Canta on Park Lane for guacamole garnished with a golden grasshopper, soft shell crab tacos and lashings of Tequila.
Former Fat Duck chef Edward Carr is now behind the kitchen at a new café paying homage to the humble slice of toast.
Treasury Wine Estates has sold its Clare Valley winery Quelltaler Estate, where it makes its Annie’s Lane brand, to Seppeltsfield for an undisclosed sum.
Spain’s Perelada Group, owners of Castillo Perelada in Empordà and Cims de Porrera in Priorat, has bought the Chivite Group for an undisclosed sum.
A Miami brewery has honoured a nun with a chainsaw who spent hours clearing fallen trees following Hurricane Irma with her own beer, appropriately named Nun With a Chainsaw.
