Aldi has launched its Autumn wine range, featuring around 70 wines which were selected with input from three shoppers. Chosen by Aldi following a…
Aldi has launched its Autumn wine range, featuring around 70 wines which were selected with input from three shoppers. Chosen by Aldi following a…
Warner’s Distilery is launching its first non-alcoholic spirits. The Northamptonshire-based distiller claims to be the first British gin brand to launch a range of products for the buoyant alcohol-free spirits category. The 0% Botanic Garden Spirits range is its first foray away from its all-natural range of farm grown gins, and Warner’s has created two variants with 0% alcohol: Juniper Double Dry and Pink Berry.
Gusbourne has released a limited quantity of still wines, an area of the business it only extends into in “truly exceptional years”. The wines are exclusively crafted from grapes selected from its own vineyards, which it said embodies its “uniquely single-minded approach to creating the finest English wine”. The company said: “This year we have released new vintages of our Pinot Noir and Chardonnay Guinevere,…
The Whisky Exchange will open its eagerly anticipated new store on the doorstep of London’s Borough Market by the end of the month. It will join existing stores in Covent Garden and Fitrovia along with a thriving online business and the Speciality Drinks wholesale arm. Sukhinder and Rajbir Singh set up The Whisky Exchange at a trading estate on the outskirts of Hanwell back in…
As a Northern Irish student escaping the febrile atmosphere that characterised undergraduate Oxford, I was lucky to have a fellow student whose father had a house in London. One of my strongest memories of these jaunts was our shed raids. Her father often got cases of wine as gifts from clients and, lacking a cellar, simply kept them in the garden shed.
An independent wine shop and bar that champions women in the wine industry is set to open in Covent Garden, central London, later this month. Lady of the Grapes, which is being set up by Carole Bryon, will showcase wines made predominantly by female winemakers and the wines will also be organic, biodynamic or natural. Bryon previously ran Shoreditch’s The Grocery Wine…
Seven Kentish wineries have joined forces with Visit Kent in a new partnership designed to champion and develop the county’s wine tourism offering. The wineries – Biddenden Vineyards, Chapel Down, Domaine Evremond, Gusbourne, Hush Heath Estate, Simpsons Wine Estate and Squerryes – have joined forces to form The Wine Garden of England. The group will be working alongside tourism specialists, Visit Kent, to make this…
Kingsland Drinks has developed a new range of sparkling fruit fusion drinks. The Garden Party range comprises flavours of Scottish Raspberry with a Hint of Rhubarb and Sicilian Lemon with a Hint of Mint. Kingsland said it wanted to tap into growth in this sector, but it also wanted to make a premium low abv product, that is “a refreshing change from the repetitive flavours…
