All Alcoholic drinks articles – Page 386
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THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow
Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wines A pale greenish colour with an aromatic rounded nose, with grass, lemon and hazelnut overtones. Not too astringent. It is robust with a good acid balance but a little dry for the mass palate. I found...
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THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow
Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wines This has a deep amber colour and medium froth. It has quite a strong coarse hoppy aroma which is not particularly subtle. I find this rather dry, austere and bitter, with rather a short finish to it. I...
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THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow
Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wines This has a pale straw colour with smallish bubbles. Has a green apple nose which is quite lively. A typical cava without showing any real class. Crisp and dry in the mouth with a clean appley flavour ...
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THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow
Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wines This has a clear colour with large bubbles. It has a slightly medicinal nose and is reminiscent of tonic and lime peel. It seems fairly innocuous in the mouth and is probably more alcoholic than it...
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THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow
Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wines This smelled stale and musty. The sparkling Californian base wine underneath was probably quite nice but it was ruined by the additives. It had some very medicinal notes and tasted a bit like herbal...
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Wholesaler price anger
Wine suppliers stand accused of discriminating against the independent retail sector. Ray Donelan, a former buyer with the Landmark buying group, said prices in small stores were now "wildly" out of line with those in the high street. "Retailer...
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Hoverspeed plans alarm
Hoverspeed is planning to increase its cross-Channel wine trade business with the launch of a home delivery service for wine bought at its two stores in Ostend and Calais. There are fears this will accelerate the trade in duty paid wines and...
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WHOLESALE UNREST
The row over lager prices at Christmas was the straw that broke the camel's back. Will wholesalers and suppliers ever see eye to eye on independents? Julian Hunt reports The same crazy deal seemed to be in supermarkets everywhere: a case of market...
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Liquid gold
Multiples could be left behind if they don't take a good look at their strategy for selling wine, argues David Bonney Take home wine replaced beer as Britain's favourite tipple this year, not because it is cheap, but because we like it. Yet the...
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Marne et Champagne, the second largest champagne house, is p
Vinopolis is hoping to raise £5m on the Stock Exchange with a flotation. Attendances at the wine attraction in London have been lower than expected since its launch last summer. Ian Macleod is introducing a 50 year old malt whisky. There are...
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Every wine at Booths
The biggest internet wine operation yet, featuring almost all the wines available in the UK, is set to go online in September. Everywine.co.uk is the brainchild of Chris Dee, IT and marketing director of northern supermarket chain Booths. He hopes...
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Winning way at off licence
David Hitchens, manager of the Unwins in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire won best off licence in the UK at this year's Off Licence of Year Awards organised by Off Licence News, sister publication to The Grocer, and sponsored by Carlsberg. The best...
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Inside Back Cover Briefs
The manager of the new Co-op in Enfield, North London is Siobhan Rooney. The store will be open early December. Chris Temperley, an ex Allied Domecq man, has joined the importers of Poland's biggest selling beer, EB Specjal Pils, as sales director....
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Unwins buys Fuller's Wine Merchants
Off license chain Unwins has bought all 61 of Fuller's award winning Wine Merchants stores from the London based brewery. The deal gives Unwins an increased presence in the south east and a greater clout against the two other major operators ...
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TARGET CONSUMER
Oonagh Wade, 33, is senior commissioning editor at an educational publishing company in Oxford. The 1920s kitsch oriental image on the bottle looks a bit tacky and the Dame of Shanghai sounds like the name of a prostitute. However, the wine...
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TARGET CONSUMER
Damian Dowdican, 23, networking consultant, Crawley, West Sussex I'm not usually one to drink alcopops but when I had the opportunity to try this drink after all the exposure it has had recently, I thought I'd give it a go. I got the...
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TARGET CONSUMER
The Grocer's marketing editor Karen Dempsey tackles this cherry-ish offering I am a big fan of red wine and fizz but not normally in the same glass. So it was with some trepidation that I approached this lambrusco-esque concoction. What I...
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Zoe Holmes, 27, a history teacher living in Brighton, West Sussex I was dubious about tasting wine from Cyprus as it is not a well known wine region. However, I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but the appearance of the bottles was not...
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Newcastle drops the ale'
Scottish Courage is dropping the ale' from Newcastle Brown Ale in an attempt to make the brand more accessible to lager drinkers. Scottish Courage marketing director Brian Sharp said: "Research shows ale drinkers and brand loyalists know very well...
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Timely ads for Riso Gallo
Italian rice brand Riso Gallo is to target time pressed risotto lovers in an ad campaign for its new Risotto Pronto range. The campaign aims to promote the timesaving properties of the new range which takes 12 minutes to prepare. The advertising...