Freixenet makes its TV debut this month as sponsors of the new series of Don’t Tell The Bride on E4. The sponsorship deal, which has an estimated media value worth of £400,000, will air through September for 10 weeks, showcasing the sparkling brand’s range and reached approximately 1.64 million people. The idents will feature the voice of TV and radio presenter Zoe Hardman, and they…

This Budgens store enjoys an eclectic customer mix and coordinates stock accordingly. Nathan Kandiah speak to DRN: How did the business start? I am a co-owner and there are three of us family members. The other two already had some stores so there are now four in total, but this is the only one I am a part owner of. We opened this store in…

Passione Vino started in 2003 as a wine importing business when Luca Dusi and Federico Bruschetta saw a gap in the UK market for quality everyday Italian wines. Four years ago they opened a wine shop, which later doubled as a wine bar. DRN spoke to manager Isabel Biagioni Angeli. How has the company evolved over the years? When we opened as a wine…

In any list of the challenges facing the wine world today – once you get past Brexit – you will find mention of millennials. For a while, this shiny term didn’t mean much to me, until someone pointed out that I was one. If, like me, you still don’t know, millennials are generally defined as those born between 1981 and…

Brexit is “the most stupid idea” in British history and “a catastrophe for the country”, according to Austrian Wine Marketing Board head Willi Klinger. He told DRN: “I love Britain and it has always been great that the UK is part of the EU, and so everything – especially that part of it – was positive. “But the whole spirit of Brexit is stupid and…

The Wine & Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has launched a campaign telling Westminster: ‘Don’t bottle it’, leaving Britain with a “totally unacceptable” no deal scenario when the Government’s Brexit deal comes to Parliament. The #NoToNoDeal ‘Don’t Bottle It’ campaign continues to push the WSTA’s belief that ‘no deal’ must be ruled out as “the worst possible outcome”, whether by design or default. Since the Referendum,…

Good news, everyone: life is generally better for everyone today than it has been at any point in history. Break out the corkscrews. That might sound like the sort of aphorism on A-boards outside off-licences, but it also happens to be true. Globally, population growth has slowed, extreme poverty has halved in the past decade, and crime has fallen rapidly since the 1990s.