Majestic Wine is set to return to the en primeur market with Bordeaux’s 2021 vintage. By allowing consumers to access the wine before it…
Majestic Wine is set to return to the en primeur market with Bordeaux’s 2021 vintage. By allowing consumers to access the wine before it…
The Wine Society is launching “the world’s first Austrian en primeur offer” with two white wines from the historic Schloss Gobelsburg. The online retailer said it has worked with the estate for years and it has now been given exclusive access to select these wines: a grüner veltliner and a riesling from two prime sites in Austria. It is now able to…
Domaine Gayda has launched a range of limited edition wines labeled ‘En Passant’. As part of this new range, a red and a white wine will be released every year and these will act as a testing ground for the estate’s winemaker, according to the producer. The En Passant range will be limited edition wines with an annual bottle count of just 30,000 (20,000 red…
Fine wine merchant BI Wine said British clients are undeterred by the weak sterling rate after reporting its most successful en primer campaign in seven years. It generated £14 million, up 65% on 2016, and said UK consumers accounted for 70% of sales. In total the merchant grew H1 turnover to £50 million, up 43% on the previous year, with soaring sales of Bordeaux, Burgundy,…
Robert Parker has said that he will never retire, despite handing over duties for scoring and reviewing en primeur Bordeaux to protégé Neal Martin. Martin has been with the Wine Advocate team since 2006 and covered Bordeaux for 18 years, writing a book on Pomerol in the process. Parker will continue to taste Bordeaux in bottle and is planning to taste the 2012 vintage next…
Waitrose is offering its customers 25% off all wines over this coming weekend. Anyone who buys three bottles or more will get a quarter off the price of each wine from August 8-12, in shops and online. The offer covers fortified and sparkling wines but does not include fine and rare wines, en primeur or gifts. Head of wine Pierpaolo Petrassi MW said: “We’re delighted…
A tough year for en primeur was the main contributor to an operating loss and falling turnover for royal wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd. But managing director Hugh Sturges told OLN that the company’s retail operations were “steady” and that it is optimistic about the long-term stability of the company. “As one of the biggest players in the market, we take the good years…
The UK market is benefiting from its most diverse range of sherry ever, according to the Sherry Institute. The institute is to hold the biggest sherry tasting in the world in London next week, and UK director Graham Hines said the buzz around the wine is bigger than he has known it in nearly 30 years of working with sherry. “There are more people bringing…
