Villa Maria buys Hawkes Bay vineyard

Below cost ban means average bottle of wine must sell above £2.41

Bibendum to stop its annual tasting in favour of smaller channel specific events

Bibendum has no intention of ever running again the kind of large scale annual company tasting it has become so well known for in the trade and will instead run channel specific smaller events around the country.

California's drought could raise foreign wine imports to the US and bulk wine prices

With California in the midst of one the most severe droughts in its history, the shortfall in domestic wine supply in the US could see a rise in bulk wine prices and an increase in foregin wine imports. 

Natural wines don't need quirky category, argues Real Wine Fair founder

Oxford Wine Festival hopes to attract 3,000 consumers

Wine videos celebrate 20 years of South African democracy

New African importer looks to distribute premium European wine across the continent

Africa Wine Merchants, a new specialist wine importer based in Cape Town, is looking to bring premium European wines to key emerging markets across Africa.

Argentina, Chile and South Africa team up again at ProWein

Following their tasting tie up last September in London the generic bodies of Argentina, Chile and South Africa are teaming up again to present their wines under the banner of Wines of the Beautiful South at this year's Prowein trade fair in Dusseldorf in March.

Wines of Rioja to target on-trade in 2014

Copestick Murray latches on to World Cup fever with launch of Brazilian Moscato

Copestick Murray hopes to tap in to World Cup fever early with the launch of a new sparkling Moscato sourced direct from Brazil which is the latest brand in the award winning I Heart wine portfolio.

JW Filshill buys Lawrence McQueen Wine & Spirits

Sparkling wine grows 30% in 2013 for Matthew Clark

Hatch Mansfield takes on Loire's Joseph Mellot across all trade

One in four Russian men die by 55 due to alcohol

A collaborative study between Russia, Oxford University and the World Health Organisation found that 25% of all Russian men die before the age of 55 primarily due to over consumption of alcohol, particularly vodka.

London Wine Fair to have 'less corporate feel'

Portman alcohol sponsorship code takes effect

Blavod prepares product launches following Christmas sales boost

Bibendum chief slams all in the trade yet to support Call Time On Duty campaign

Michael Saunders, Bibendum's managing director, has spoken out strongly against those in the trade that have yet to get behind the WSTA-led Call Time on Duty campaign.

Independent merchant Essentially Wine's operating profits up 5%