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After trialling two own-label wines in PET for three months, Sainsbury’s is putting them back into glass because it is worried that they won’t sell fast enough during the winter for the wine to stay fresh.
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English sparkling wine producer RidgeView has been awarded the prestigious Grand Prix of Gastronomy.
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For the fifth year in a row, Waitrose has picked up the International Wine & Spirit Competition’s Wine Buyer of the Year award.
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France is looking to extend its Champagne region in a bid to keep up with increasing demand.
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Supermarket chain Co-op scooped half the prizes at the first-ever Fairtrade Wine Awards last week.
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A Russian sparkling wine beat far more expensive bottles from some of the top champagne houses in a recent blind tasting.
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Anyone who knows anything about wine knows that vines produce grapes once a year, but just to prove there’s always an exception to the rule, Waitrose is selling a Brazilian wine called Rio Sol, which is a double-cropper.
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Michelin-starred chef Tom Aikens is to have an all-English wine list at the fish-and-chip restaurant he is opening next month.
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A New Zealand company has devised a way of turning the grape seeds from wine production – usually a waste product – into a saleable commodity.
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Middle-class wine drinkers have been slammed by the media after a study showed them to be the worst offenders when it comes to hazardous levels of drinking alcohol.
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‘Wine buff’ Oz Clarke and ‘petrolhead’ James May returned to TV screens last week for a second series of their Big Wine Adventure.
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An Australian winemaker has invented a stopper that will remove the preservative from wine as the bottle is opened.
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Australia has excelled in this year’s International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) by being awarded a third of all the Gold medals.
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American scientists have invented two devices that can detect cork taint and oxidation in wines without having to open the bottles.
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Who would imagine anyone could produce good wine – let alone wine at all – on the edge of the Namibian desert, but a British-born businessman is proving just such a thing is possible.
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The Argentines got us into salsa and now it seems our interest in their wine is stepping up too.
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Spain’s leading winemaking family is reaching new heights in its fight against global warming – by planting vineyards at altitude.
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Asda has launched a range of mini taster bottles designed to give consumers the confidence to try new wines.
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Australian wine looks likely to be hit hard by the country’s relentless drought.
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The majority of consumers still think wine should come in a glass bottle rather than any other type of packaging, according to a recent report.
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If you think you smell a wine differently to those around you, chances are you do.
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Bordeaux is the world’s best-known wine region - followed by Champagne and Chianti.
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A 72-year-old man was asked if he was old enough to buy wine at a Morrisons checkout.
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Corney & Barrow has shut its London shop in Notting Hill.
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Chilean winery Casa Silva has found a new way to control pests in the vineyard – by blowing 100°C dry heat at 200 kilometres an hour on to the vines.
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A week after Woolworths introduced the cheapest champagne ever to go on sale in the UK, it has already sold out.
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Wine imported in bulk and then bottled in the UK has increased significantly in the past 12 months.
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From next year we could be seeing a battle for the most carbon-friendly wine brands as a new standard is being drawn up to measure and promote greenhouse gases.
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In spite of the fact that Germany produces two thirds of the world’s Riesling, the country can’t make enough to meet consumer demand.
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Waitrose’s local-sourcing policy has made the supermarket a favourite for English wine.
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Three-for-two and other multi-buy discounts on alcohol are to be outlawed in Scotland as part of the country’s crackdown on binge drinking.
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New Zealand made its mark as a producer of fine Pinot Noir this week by triumphing over Burgundy in the Decanter World Wine Awards.
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Whether it’s the result of climate change or just the vagaries of nature, the weather has heralded an early harvest in parts of Europe.
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It is easier to remove a cork from a wine bottle by twisting and pulling rather than pulling alone, according to a team of Italian and French researchers.
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Two low-alcohol wines have been prevented from going on sale by the Food Standards Agency, which says they are illegal because they use ‘artificial’ winemaking practices.
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The Zork closure, which seals a bottle like a screwcap but pops like a cork, is now being made in the US. The move gives more American wineries the option to use Zork as these closures are being manufactured for US bottle specifications rather than Europe
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Australia is searching for names to replace ‘tokay’, ‘sherry’, and ‘port’ on its fortified wines.
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Australia’s bag-in-box wine container has been shortlisted in a poll to find the country’s most iconic design.
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The Germans are really going all out to make their wines as consumer friendly as possible.
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Women are turning their backs on lager in favour of rosé wines, which they see as more ‘sophisticated’ and better for their figures!
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Three quarters of UK wine drinkers don’t know how many units of alcohol there are in a bottle of wine, says a new survey.
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Australian scientists have identified the single aroma compound that produces the spicy ‘black pepper’ smell so popular with many Shiraz drinkers, so paving the way for winemakers to design wines to better suit the tastes of drinkers in the future.
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A spinning cone sounds more like a ride at an adventure park than something involved with winemaking, but its recent arrival in Europe could be almost as exciting for those wanting to enjoy a couple of glasses of wine without being on the floor. This is b
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Screwcaps create over four times more greenhouse gases than cork, according to the world’s first carbon-footprint study into the impact of wine closures on the environment.
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Tesco is hoping to satisfy UK consumers’ growing desire for New Zealand wine by more than doubling its range of Kiwi bottles.
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Recyclability and environmentally friendly seem to be the wine industry’s current buzzwords, as companies search for ways to make their products greener.
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While the government is busy promoting responsible drinking, Selfridges has fallen foul of the law by allowing customers to buy wine in measures that are legally considered to be too small.
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Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon, Californian Zinfandel and Italian Pinot Grigio might sound like a pretty standard selection of wines, but not when you hear that they are all being made by a company in the West Midlands, using grape juice and concentrate from
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English wine producer RidgeView has collected the Best International Sparkling Rosé prize in the French Le Mondial du Rosé competition.
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Lager lords Carlsberg have launched a range of wines, so one has to ask the question, are they probably the best wines in the world?
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