Vintage Wine Estates at risk of collapse // Navigating Prohibitionist Waves and Market Shifts

Troubled US wine group Vintage Wine Estates has warned that it is approaching bankruptcy, despite having undertaken a raft of measures to balance the business.

All “sky-is-falling” predictions are completely inaccurate; the industry will survive. But analyzing this predicament calls for us to look at a bit of history.

Impacts on state’s lakes examined.

The best own-label wines combine quality and value with a lesser focus on provenance, as one supermarket giant reveals.

We're into week four of the "make-or-break" Bordeaux en primeur campaign, with plenty of estates' wine now having released their 2023 vintages. But has the campaign heeded the early warnings and done what the market demanded?

Researchers find that heavy drinkers who cut back enjoy better cardiovascular health.

A US survey of the country's drinkers and cannabis users has found the daily use of marijuana has outpaced alcohol for the first time.

Despite the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, the UK’s eating-out market reached a turnover of £97.3bn in 2023, surpassing pre-pandemic levels.

Laurent-Perrier Group saw sales volumes fall faster than the Champagne region’s average in its 2023-2024 year.

Promotions and activations focused on one of the world's oldest wines supports Georgian category growth in the US.

Demand in the key western European markets will be “instrumental” in fuelling the global wine sector’s volume growth, new data shows.

Along with other wine segments, the import sector has struggled to make volume progress in the U.S. lately, with total imported table wine depletions down 3% to 67.1 million 9-liter cases last year.

Wine communication is the ability to excite someone about wine enough that they want to run right out and buy a bottle of wine and open it.

Alcohol adverts should not be shown alongside programs that appeal particularly to children. But how many alcohol adverts do children end up seeing?

Napa Valley pioneers, the Chappellet family was instrumental in putting the region on the map thanks to its now-legendary Cabernet Sauvignons.

The Raventós family has been growing grapes since 1497.

Jacksonville grape growers worked together to successfully squash vine mealybug (VMB) in 2023 with help from Oregon State University (OSU) and Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA).

Drought-resistant, heat-tolerant Italian varieties are moving in on acreage once planted to French grapes.

UK businesses who produce or use packaging are required to enrol in the Government’s EPR scheme to improve recycling and reduce the amount of packaging waste.

Capsules and foils are more than just a marketing element of packaging.

International Pinot Noir Celebration, founded in 1987, helped Oregon earn its pinot noir reputation.

The IWC is regarded as one of the most influential and rigorously judged wine competitions.