Nicolas stores sold to Spirited Wines
The Castel family exit the UK selling 43 Nicolas Stores to Spirited Wines.
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Chilean wines big hit in indpendents
Chilean wines displace Italy by volume with 10% share of the independent retail market.
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Camel Valley Rose 2010 another record winning vintage
Sparkling Wines continue to fly the flag for English Wines while Sainsbury's get in on the act.
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Paul Symington is named Decanter wine man of the year
Paul Symington of Symington Family Estates accepts award on behalf of the whole family.
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Bordeaux 2009 greatest vintage ever tasted since 1982
Wine critic Robert Parker rates 19 2009 Bordeaux's a perfect 100 and prices start to rise.
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Consumers prefer low alcohol wine but grape variety is still king
Low alcohol content is a major consideration when choosing wine but grape variety is still the most important factor.
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Chapel Down restaurant closes
Restriction on number of weddings forces restaurant to close
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Chateau Margaux experiments with screw caps and organic farming
Alternative farming methods and bottle closures tested by Margaux
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GM wines fight Pierces disease
Californian researchers seek to protect grapevines from Pierce's disease
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Russia wines devastated by worst winter in half a century
Half of Russia's wine harvest devastated by plummeting temperatures.
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Moscato the next big UK grape variety?
Moscato sales in US risen by 70% and set to take the UK by storm in the spring
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Quick the French are coming!
Pierson Whitaker Grand Cru Champagne house has partnered with English landowners in Hampshire to produce a sparkling wine called Meonhill.
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Money is tight in the UK but you can still go out, just spend less.
Leisure industry report shows that consumers are going out more regularly but spending less.
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With a quick change of rules, Organic Wine now exists.
New EU rules mean the term organic wine can now be used for wine made from organically grown grapes
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Turn the music up - it improves the taste!
Synaethesia studies identify a link between taste and sound.
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Arctic blast in Europe saves Czech ice wine
Temperatures dip low enough for ice wine grape harvest to begin.
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Camel Valley applies for UK first Appelation
Camel Valley in Cornwall applies for PDO recognition.
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Out with the wine list in with the iPad
Top restaurants around the world are using iPads as wine lists.
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Australia drops tasting panel to let natural wines be exported
Australia has dropped the requirement that all wines to be exported must pass a tasting panel so that faulty natural wines stand a chance.
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Camel Valley do it again winning top Rose at the Bollecini Del Mondo Awards
Camel Valley repeat their win of last year to win Best Sparkling Rose in the World trophy.
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Vine diseases the unknown and unspoken threat to UK viticulture
Are English Wine Growers ignoring a potential threat to their vines?
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Chinese man gets life imprisonment for smuggling wine
A Chinese man has been given a life sentence for illegally importing millions of dollars of fine wine into China from France, Britain and Hong Kong.
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Chardonnay top 15 clones to have their DNA mapped
Clones of the Chardonnay grape vine will be mapped to show which clone is best for which geography.
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Jacobs Creek gives lighter alcohol wines a go
Jacob’s Creek launches Cool Harvest, a range of lower alcohol wines positioned as “light and fresh”.
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Terrior now proven to include yeast, at least in New Zealand
New Zealand scientists find that yeasts could be part of wine's terroir
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No ice wine this winter, its just not cold enough
Temperatures have rarely dropped below 8C and -7C is minimum temperature required for Eiswein production
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Sips measures reinstated
UK legislation has finally changed to allow smaller sips measures of wine to be sold.
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A Rose by any other name.. Now its white Zinfandel - again
EU rules that White Zinfandel term still stands.
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Bordeaux prices collapse in 2011
2011 Winners and losers announced in Live-Ex Fine Wine 1000 index
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Red, white and rose, but what about orange?
Orange wine is the hot new wine trend amongst sommeliers in the USA who are making it fashionable by putting it on their wine lists.
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Grape waste helps control unwanted emissions!
Study shows leftover grape material drops methane emissions from dairy cows.
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Decanter hosts panel tasting of grower Champagnes
Decanter magazine's first-ever panel tasting of grower Champagnes concludes that grower champagnes have character, sophistication and are good value for money.
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New egg shaped fermentor creates a buzz
New egg shaped fermentors steal the show at SIMEI 2011 in Milan.
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European Union looks to allow unrestricted vine planting in 2016
European wine growing regions battle European Commission to allow massive vineyard expansion
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Brettanomyces genome sequenced, next stop no more sweaty saddles
Australian researchers crack the blueprint of brettanomyces to work out how to combat it.
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Wine is losing market share in the UK as prices rise
Report shows wine is £2.34 more expensive per bottle than a year ago and this is affecting sales in the UK.
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Wave Technology unleashes the flavour of wine
Why swirling wine uses the physics of wave technology to make the wine taste better.
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Paper wine bottles set to launch in the UK
Paper wine bottles latest invention to bring down wine carbon footprint.
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Screwcaps now the norm in the UK
UK wine drinkers will now happily buy wine with a screw cap closure.
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Prosecco set to grow to five times its current size by 2035
Prosecco region expanding production to keep up with increased demand for Prosecco.
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Wine Trade now has carbon calculator
Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol is the new green policy for the wine trade
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English Beaujolais Nouveau?
English Winery Three Choirs produce first English wine from 2011 harvest
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Naked Wines named Online Business of the Year
National Business Awards name Naked Wines UK Online Business of the Year.
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Bordeaux embraces claret
A new term 'Claret de Bordeaux' is to be used for wines under AOC Bordeaux, AOC Bordeaux Superieur and AOC Cotes de Bordeaux appellations.
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Low alcohol and no-alcohol market breaks 1 million case barrier
Low alcohol wine is increasingly bought by consumers to appease their consciences and put less pressure on their wallets.
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Camel Valley on top of the world at International wine competition
Camel Valley Pinot Rose awarded the International Sparkling Rose Trophy.
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Healdsburg won’t cap wine-tasting rooms
With 20 wine tasting rooms downtown Healdsburg council decide not to further restrict more establishments.
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Bloosom Hill changes name of White Zinfandel
Blossom Hill White Zinfandel and White Grenache will now be known as Zinfandel Rosé and Grenache Rosé as Italian authorities force change.
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Californian rain could mean a rotten harvest
Producers in California are worried that rainstorms in early October could affect the quality of the crop resulting in under-ripe grapes lacking concentration of fruit.
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Lindemans add NZ Sauvignon Blanc to range
Lindeman’s has now added a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc to its international Winemaker’s Discovery range.
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