The Wine & Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has used the 650th anniversary of the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty to highlight forthcoming tax hikes for fortified wines. The WSTA said the alliance, formed in 1373, was followed by the Methuen Treaty, boosting trade by giving preferential tax treatment for British textiles and Portuguese wines. “The trading bond is set to be severed by the government’s new alcohol taxation…

“Wine businesses like those here today have been able to weather the events of the last few years, not because of what the government has done to help them, but in spite of the obstacles the government has put in their path,” said Miles Beale, chief executive of the Wine & Spirit Trade Association. Speaking at London Wine Fair 2023, Beale discussed the…

Following the 10-year anniversary of Hedonism Wines in 2022, chief executive Tatiana Fokina outlines this year’s plans and shares her personal favourites from the store’s range  A lot of the time it feels like Hedonism has been around forever, as it is so well established now. After 10 years in an industry filled with retailers that have been around for centuries, I still cannot get…

Ten years ago, the prospect of putting wine in a can was little more than an unthinkable, undrinkable one. So how did canned wine come to be a mainstay on our supermarket shelves? And as of this month, replace the majority of mini wine bottles in Waitrose? Henry Connell, co-founder of canned wine company The Uncommon offers his take.  Across the pond, Americans have been embracing the…

The first issue of the year is out now, featuring insights from nine industry experts on what to expect from 2023 (pages 31 – 40). And with less than a month to go until this year’s Drinks Retailing Awards, we announce the full list of this year’s finalists (20 – 28). Amid Dry January activations, YesMore examines whether low/no has broken out of…

The past few years have been turbulent to say the least, and many people are unsure about what’s coming next for the world of drinks brands and retailing.  In the latest of YesMore’s regular series, four industry experts – a drinks marketer, an audience researcher, a drinks buyer and a drinks brand – shed some light on what they think will be the major…

With the festive season around the corner, Rachel Badham takes a dive into this year’s biggest Christmas trends for retailers  Sandra Brunet, marketing director for Campari Group UK, says: “Christmas, when done well, can be the most lucrative period of the year for retailers; in December 2021, there was a 38% increase in spending on alcohol compared to a typical month.”  With 2022 marking…