A total of 42 wine students from 23 different countries have applied for the Taylor’s Port Golden Vines Diversity Scholarships programme including students originating from Colombia, French Polynesia, Georgia, Iran, Jamaica, Malaysia, Nigeria, Peru, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago and Zimbabwe. A total of 29% of the applicants identified themselves as black and 71% as ethnic minorities (including indigenous peoples). Of those who applied 62% were…

Nick Jackson MW is launching The School of Taste, a global online wine education platform offering live interactive webinar tasting courses and pre-recorded content to wine professionals and students as well as amateur enthusiasts. The School’s courses will be based on his new way of tasting wine by identifying structure rather than flavours, as defined in his first book,…

Nyetimber has announced it is providing work experience for three students from Plumpton College Wine Centre. Throughout March, April and May, three students will spend ten days immersed in the English sparkling wine producer’s business. The students are studying wine production and wine business courses at Plumpton, the Sussex-based college which specialises in viticulture, oenology and commercial industry learning and research. This exposure is aimed…

Remember Binge Britain? Only a few short years ago we were really worried about young people drinking too much, falling over and showing their pants. And now, suddenly, we’re worrying they’re not drinking enough. What are they up to? Judging by the top-line statistics, the move away from alcohol among the young has been dramatic, driving the decline in UK consumption over the…

New research has dismissed the notion that today’s young adults are “sober vegans who prefer yoga to clubbing and think drinking is uncool”. Marketing agency Yes More teamed up with student group Hype Collective to survey more than 1,000 university students on their drinking habits. It suggested they are drinking less than they were a decade ago, but stressed that figure “is falling from a…

Waitrose has taken on a beer created by university students as a business project. Muddy Wellies Original Ale was created by students at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and it is now on the shelves in three braches of Waitrose in Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, Cirencester and Stroud). Waitrose said it was attracted by both the taste and the fact the beer is a Social Enterprise, meaning…

Students drink an average of 14 shots during the course of Freshers’ Week, according to new research from herbal liqueur brand Jägermeister. Young adults are gearing up to head to university and retailers are urged to stock up on spirits brands that lend themselves to partying. Jägermeister claims that it accounts for 31% of all shots sold in NUS venues and it said retailers should…