Trade charity The Drinks Trust has lined up a free book club, as it looks to offer its Drinks Community members access to free education.
Trade charity The Drinks Trust has lined up a free book club, as it looks to offer its Drinks Community members access to free education.
Tesco is offering wine lovers the chance to access tailored tips from top sommeliers with a new on-demand SMS recommendation service. Tesco Sommelier Messaging Service, which will run from March 18 to April 16, will deliver bespoke bottle recommendations from leading restaurant sommeliers by text to help the nation “elevate their evenings in with exceptional wines and perfect pairings from Tesco”. The on-demand text service…
London has been moved into the Government’s Tier 2 Covid level, whereby from Saturday there will be a ban on households mixing indoors. Essex, York, Chesterfield and other areas will also move to the high-alert restrictions from this weekend, according to the health secretary Matt Hancock. Households in these areas will also be banned from mixing socially in pubs and restaurants, but they are allowed…
The Wine and Spirits Trade Association is turning its focus on pushing for a broader definition of hospitality, to help suppliers to the on-trade to access the same levels of support. Miles Beale, chief executive of the WSTA, said: “The reason for this is that we think it is unfair that on-trade suppliers don’t have access to the same support that the hospitality sector has.
Berkmann Wine Cellars is launching a new initiative to deliver wine direct to customers, while also donating a portion of the profits to help the hospitality sector. The company is launching “Help 4 Hospitality” campaign, which it described as “a groundbreaking initiative to deliver wine to consumers while donating a share of revenue to the hospitality industry during the pandemic”. The online platform, Help 4…
Diageo is launching a new information phone line that will be available to support licensed business owners who want to access the commercial measures announced by the Government. The phone line (0207 7282556) will be available from March 23, and is free to call. The new line will be provided by business and financial advisor, Grant Thornton UK LLP, and…
Nisa Retail has expanded its craft beer offering with access to more than 100 UK producers, as a result of a partnership with online distributor, EeBria Trade. The new partnership gives smaller producers an opportunity to be stocked in a nationwide retail chain. Products have been picked from EeBria Trade’s selection of more than 4,500 active listings, as well as selection packs from leading breweries,…
Online retailer Winebuyers now lists more than 400 English wines sourced from 14 different counties. Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Kent, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Surrey and Sussex are all represented on the site, and there is one from Wales too. Julia Trustram Eve, marketing director at Wines GB, said: “I’m truly impressed that Winebuyers provides access to purchase so many wines from…
