The release of the sparkling wine priced at £5,000 marks the announcement of a long-term partnership between the luxury hotel and award-winning winery. The Nebuchadnezzar is made from 100% Chardonnay grapes grown in Kent and Sussex and aged for four and a half years on lees. Edward Allsopp, general manager of the hotel’s Booking Office bar, said: “We were keen to work with an English…

The research agency said the recovering economy and an increasing tendency to splash out on a ‘big night in’ is boosting spending on wine in the UK, even as total consumption volumes are declining. Around 4 in 10 monthly wine drinkers are spending more than £8 on a bottle of wine to drink at home for a formal occasion, up from 29% a year ago,…

Category product development manager at the global multiple retailer where she oversees its wine portfolio in 11 markets, Jewell leaves at a time when her boss Dan Jago, head of Tesco’s beers, wines and spirits, remains suspended along with a number of other senior departmental heads. Jewell is a well known, highly respected and popular figure within the UK wine trade. She starts on February…

The three-day exhibition, now triennial, will take place at the start of the Southern Hemisphere’s 2015 spring season, running from September 15 to 17 in Cape Town at the city’s International Convention Centre. Wosa CEO Siobhan Thompson said DHL’s backing would take the event to a new level. “Delegates will have the opportunity to experience the range and depth of South Africa’s vinous dexterity, strengthened…

In a talk that addressed when and how a business should expand internationally, Jaime Araujo, MD of Terravina, said “going global is not the answer for everyone” and warned that there was risk to the “gold rush”. In Wine Vision’s Big Debate, Troy Christensen, CEO of Enotria Wine Sellers, compared international wine distribution to “children playing football” in that “everyone chases the new thing”. Adrian…

Balliet – who runs US tasting show Wine Riot, which targets young wine drinkers – told the wine industry this week that the consumer group is increasingly made up of adults of legal drinking age and is therefore crucial to the future of global wine sales – yet Millennials are not being marketed to correctly. “The wine industry has grown in spite of its marketing,”…

Speaking at Wine Vision 2014 on the future of wine, Clark divided the drinking occasion into contextual – routine and habit-based drinking – and pretextual – unplanned or event-based drinking. The former drinking occasion, is under threat in many global markets, said the consultant. Clark explained that sobriety is becoming a social norm among many Millennial consumers, with a recent poll suggesting 47% of people…