Instead the finalists, all from a hospitality background, presented a sustainability-focused project which could be implemented to reduce environmental impact or improve the livelihoods of the people around them. The €30,000 prize has now been injected into the Alquímico School of Hospitality – an education programme aimed at preparing young people at risk of social exclusion for sustainable, international careers in hospitality. The school is…

As the duty free industry heads to Singapore this month to attend the TFWA Asia Pacific Exhibition (May 10-14), the region appears relatively well placed to weather the shocks of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Asia is not immune to higher ticket prices due to soaring jet fuel costs, of course, and intercontinental traffic between Asia and Europe has dropped considerably due to…

On 24 March, the European Union and Australia announced the agreement of a bilateral free trade deal that, according to the Australian government, will see “98% of the current value of Australia’s exports entering the European Union duty-free”. It was a deal that followed eight years of negotiations and arrived just two months after the signing of a landmark trade deal between the EU and…

The Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac (BNIC) declared that annual revenues fell by 13.4% to €2.7bn in the year ending 3 July 2025, while volumes declined 4.2% to 154.6 million bottles. According to a report by Indexbox, “this downturn was driven by a sharp 24.4% drop in exports to China, largely due to an anti-dumping investigation, and a 4.6% decline in North American revenues despite…

Regenerative viticulture in a winemaking sense is the practice of encouraging a diversity of plants among a vineyard in order to generate soil health.

In Drinks International’s annual Brands Report, Angostura remains the definitive cocktail bitters brand used in the world’s best bars. It’s so popular that you could argue it acts as a proprietary eponym for the segment, with many consumers believing all bitters are Angostura. For more than 200 years Angostura has been trading its bitters, but they haven’t always been the essential seasoning in an Old…

When did we all become so health-obsessed?  It’s hard to pinpoint exactly – our relationship to our own bodies has evolved as we have – but it has almost always been a pursuit of society’s most privileged, see the elites of ancient Greece and the gymnasium, the Imperial House of Japan and onsen, or Victorian socialites and their fad diets – tapeworm anyone? Really, the…