Tom Harvey, co-founder of YesMore marketing agency, says it’s time for drinks producers and retailers to give careful consideration to sacrificing easy wins in…
Tom Harvey, co-founder of YesMore marketing agency, says it’s time for drinks producers and retailers to give careful consideration to sacrificing easy wins in…
Fine wine merchant Latimer Vintners has appointed ex-sommelier Caroline Brangé to head up its on and off trade sales, working closely with London’s hospitality establishments as they now re-open their doors. Brangé brings ten years’ experience in the London wine trade, from head sommelier at 28-50 Maddox street to leading the London on-trade team for Armit Wines. Brangé is excited to introduce Latimer’s extensive range…
Wine List, a wine education startup founded in 2019, raised 100% of its £375,000 target in one day on Crowdcube this week. Wine List offers a 12-part home wine course sending wine out for members to practice their skills on. Their self-learning programme is supplemented by online monthly classes. Wine List was founded by Josh Lachkovic, who created the podcast An Introduction to…
The Wine Society is now open again to new members. The online retailer temporarily closed at the end of March and then it reopened but only selling full cases of six or 12 to existing members. It can now offer new members a choice from 1500 wines, 30 different mixed cases and more than 70 half bottles of wine. The Wine Society has also re-opened…
Amathus Drinks has become the UK distributor for Britain’s first sake brewery. Kanpai was founded by Tom and Lucy Wilson in 2016 and the company now has a taproom in Peckham, south east London. The producer has a core range of three sakes: a Junmai Sumi, a Nigori/ cloudy Kumo and a special hopped sparkling sake called Fizu. The latter is designed to appeal to…
A gin described as ‘the world’s first social enterprise gin’ has been launched by an Edinburgh distillery. Pickering Gin founders Marcus Pickering and Matt Gammell have teamed up with social enterprise experts to produce the Ginerosity of spirit, the profits of which will be poured into good causes. The duo have formed a new company, Good Spirits (Scotland) CIC, in partnership with social enterprise entrepreneur…
The re-branded Big Hug Brewing has redesigned its packaging in preparation for major expansion in the coming months. Its beers will be available at the Solomon’s Yard winter pop-up in Camden, and will be launching in Greene King’s 1,600-strong estate in the new year. The company, which launched in 2014 as Bear Hug, is already trading with Punch Taverns and is now available nationally through leading…
Carlsberg has extended its range of limited edition beer-based male-grooming products in time for the Movember charity push. The Beer’d Beauty range includes shaving gel, aftershave cream and moustache cream. Each product contains 200ml of freeze-dried powdered beer. It was initially launched in June this year to tie in with Father’s Day. All proceeds from sales globally will go to the Movember Foundation. Founded in…
