In June, Lucy Britner travelled to Alentejo and Dão in Portugal to talk to Luisa Amorim about her wineries, brand Portugal and the next generation…
In June, Lucy Britner travelled to Alentejo and Dão in Portugal to talk to Luisa Amorim about her wineries, brand Portugal and the next generation…
The premium spirits-focused sister company to Kingsland Drinks will be named Ten Locks and its first drinks will be Nusa Cana Rum, Applewood Gin and West Cork Irish Whiskey. The newly-formed Manchester-based company…
A leading north west England wine merchant has shared on national radio its experiences of a rollercoaster ride doing business under lockdown. Marc Hough, owner of Cork of the North, which has branches in Sale and Heaton Moor near Manchester, told Radio 4’s You & Yours programme this lunchtime that he had welcomed government support to pay 80% of furloughed staff wages but said the…
Prosecco brand Corte Molino has partnered with the Co-op and digital lifestyle brand Pretty52 for an on-pack competition. Corte Molino, which is produced by Borgo Molino and distributed in the UK by Kingsland Drinks, has hidden one Golden cork and a series of Silver and Bronze corks in bottles of its Prosecco in Co-op stores up and down the UK. The consumer who finds the golden…
When you get overexposed to a smell, you no longer notice it. Anyone who’s taken wine exams is familiar with the creeping dread of repeatedly nosing an unidentified wine as the aromas only become more and more elusive. Similarly, it’s easy to become accustomed to the quirks of the wine trade as a whole. It is riddled with absurdity, yet that soon becomes normalised…
Halewood Wine & Spirits has snapped up a “significant stake” in West Cork Distillers. The activity is designed to further strengthen its partnership in jointly developing and distributing the Irish whiskey portfolio. Halewood already distributes West Cork’s products across eight global markets and it plans to jointly expand its global reach through this new agreement. It has already been working closely with West Cork, the…
Halewood International has purchased a 50% stake in The Pogues Irish Whiskey, with the famous Irish band retaining ownership of the remaining 50%. West Cork Distillers, one of only two independently owned and operated distilleries in Ireland, developed The Pogues Irish Whiskey in 2015. While West Cork Distillers continues to hold global distribution rights, it has awarded independent drinks manufacturer and distributor, Halewood, the distribution…
Celtic punk band The Pogues have teamed up with West Cork Distillers to launch an Irish whiskey into the UK market. The band were out in full force at the Boogaloo pub in London’s Archway to promote the new whiskey over the weekend, handing out shots and cocktails such as The Fairytale, named after their hit Christmas single Fairytale of New York. The whiskey is…
