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31 Days of German Wine winners unveiled

Le Vignoble takes top spot – The Grape Escape in Cheltenham is runner-up

Soave and Abruzzo producers snapped up by Hallgarten

Importer welcomes Inama and Terre di Civita

Alliance strengthens French portfolio

Champagne Lenoble and Maison Albert Bichot join the range

French and Spanish vignerons hit by wildfires

Provence and Sierra de Gredos are worst affected by flames and smoke

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Twelve unsettling wine commercials

You don’t see many TV ads for wine, and these examples may partly explain why

Now everybody’s a gin distiller

Adnams plans to give more of its customers the chance to make their own gin

The fun of the fair

The UK wine trade would still exist without the LWF, but it would be a…

Consumers are getting more wine savvy

The number of consumers taking wine courses is continuing to soar, according to the WSET

It’s not just Marmite that’s more expensive

Independents have been hit with pre-Christmas price increases. The worst may be yet to come

The old boys’ club

Just 11% of indie wine specialists are female. It will be embarrassing if that figure…

Saturation point is a long way off

The UK could sustain another 200 independent wine shops, says study

Shop? Wine bar? Café? Maybe all three

28.4% of retailers now offer wine for on-premise consumption

Confidence high but turnover takes a hit

Independent wine retailers saw turnover fall by 5% last year, according to figures compiled by…

Saturday Kitchen could feature indies

Show ‘is open to the idea’ of filming on location in independent wine shops

What’s happened to the AWRS?

It was meant to be in full swing by now. What has gone wrong?

Roberson quits retail to focus on ‘new ideas’

Roberson is closing its iconic shop but says it still has faith in independent retailing

Ambitious indies open more shops

Oeno, Planet of the Grapes, Vagabond and Bottle Apostle have all been busy

News flash: independent trade rises by almost 5%

The independent trade grew by 4.8% in 2014 and is now worth more than £500m…

Independents bloom in garden centres

Reserve Wines is the latest indie to bed in beside the bedding plants

Wanted: women. Any age. Must love wine

Independent wine shops still have a bit of a problem with women. It’s a fact…

Independents are just too good

At least two companies want to build retail empires that tap into a wine market…

Survey provides a glimpse of the future

Independents are taking an increasingly open-minded approach to their shops and broadening their specialism beyond…