The last opportunity for independents to enter the 2022 Drinks Retailing Awards is approaching. Entries will close at 23.59 on Monday, August…
The last opportunity for independents to enter the 2022 Drinks Retailing Awards is approaching. Entries will close at 23.59 on Monday, August…
Dalston’s Soda Co is extending into alcohol for the first time with the launch of a hard seltzer range. The company launched a no-added-sugar seltzer range in January last year and now it is extending its expertise in lower calorie and additive-free drinks into the alcoholic sector. Dan Broughton, co-founder, said: “With a range of award-winning real fruit seltzers in our current line-up, we felt…
The Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) has announced its Level 3 Award in Spirits is now live, with the first courses in the UK and USA now open for booking. The award has been developed in response to the global growth of the spirits industry and resulting demand for advanced level, brand-neutral spirits category knowledge. The new qualification will build on the Level 2…
DRN gets the lowdown on how wine branding has changed over the years from expert Abigail Barlow. Award-winning drinks design agency BD Creative has been renamed Barlow & Co as it celebrates its 21st birthday. Abigail Barlow set up the firm back in 1998 and it has since worked with leading retailers including Asda and Spar, large global brands such as McGuigan and boutique producers…
The second annual People’s Choice Wine Awards aim to discover the wines that consumers across the UK love best and the reasons why. Janet Harrison of Cracking Wines launched the awards last year and saw wines submitted from Asda, Waitrose, Red Squirrel, Laurent Perrier, Bolney Estate, Raymond Reynolds and more. The competition focuses on the way consumers search for and buy wine, whether from independent…
Adrian Tierney-Jones has been named Beer Writer of the Year 2017 at the British Guild of Beer Writers’ annual awards ceremony. This year the annual competition received more than 130 entries across nine categories. Pete Brown, last year’s Beer Writer of the Year and chairman of the judges for 2017, said: “Everyone who’s stepped up to the podium tonight should be extremely proud; they have…
Treasury Wine Estates has launched a new marketing campaign for Wolf Blass, celebrating the wine’s award-winning history and fronted by a new TV advertising campaign in the UK. The advert, which celebrates the winery’s recent award wines, will be seen on major programming across key territorial and satellite channels throughout October, and will be supported by in-store activation support in key retailers. The new advert…
Two of the five nominees for a newly launched Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) award for outstanding Diploma graduates come from the UK wine trade. JancisRobinson.com (the website run by Jancis Robinson MW), has partnered with the Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) to launch the new WSET Outstanding Alumni Award, an annual accolade aimed at celebrating a WSET Diploma graduate who is notably…
