Luca Rigotti has been appointed the new president of the DOC Delle Venezie Consortium, which manages Pinot Grigio Delle Triveneto, one of Italy’s most important wine-growing denominations. Rigotti, ...

Venus Wine and Spirits Merchants is poised to open a fifth distribution centre one year after the business was acquired by the Booker Group in 2024. According to the group: “The Birmingham site ...

I’m going to come right out and admit it. I’ve worked in the wine world for 22 years now, and I still don’t really understand malolactic fermentation. I know what it is, in principle. I even know ...

Multinational wine producer Vinarchy has appointed Danny Celoni as its CEO. According to the company, Celoni will officially assume the position in August, allowing current executive chairman, Ben ...

Familia Torres has recently begun work on a groundbreaking pilot project to concentrate carbon dioxide from wine fermentation in its purest form for reuse at its Pacs del Penedès winery. Access to ...

I used to love Wine Twitter. In those early days, it was such a vibrant place: issues debated, introductions made; previously untapped insights and articles uncovered; consumers and commentators ...

I have been involved in dozens of small enterprises over the last 40 years. A few have grown very successfully from acorns to oak trees, some are healthy saplings still reaching upwards, but most have ...

In the 50 short years since China’s wine industry swung into serious action, marked by a switch to production of dry reds and the country’s first whites, this fledgling industry has grown ...

Waud Wines has acquired online wine merchant Slurp from Freixenet Copestick, which had owned the retailer since 2017. The acquisition is expected to boost annual sales to approximately £7m for the ...

A new premium-focused distributor and brand-building company has been launched by industry veterans Seymour Ferreira (pictured, centre) and Douglas Bratten (pictured, left). Promoting its streamlined ...

Three Wine Men – a consumer tasting event created by Oz Clarke, Tim Atkin MW and Olly Smith – has been reborn as WineAlive, signalling a new era for one of the UK's leading wine experiences. Founded ...

The trade body South Africa Wine has shared details of what it characterises as an ‘exceptional harvest’ for wine estates in the country. Mild and dry conditions across the nation’s winegrowing ...