by Richard Moyse | Jul 29, 2026 | News
Wine exports remain heavily concentrated in a handful of countries, with Southern Europe continuing to dominate the global market. Italy leads the world with 2.18 billion litres of wine exports, narrowly ahead of Spain at 2.03 billion Litres. France ranks third with...
by Richard Moyse | Jun 23, 2026 | News
In the UK, rosé now accounts for around 9% of all still wine sold, with total volumes reaching approximately 129 million bottles and continuing to grow year-on-year. Rosé is continuing to build both volume and value. What makes a good rosé? Such is the diversity of...
by Richard Moyse | Jun 2, 2026 | News
It wasn’t long ago that chilling red wine was the sort of niche sommelier activity everyone laughed at. How times have changed. This spring you can hardly glance at a wine list without encountering the rather odd phrase ‘chillable red’. We’ve always drunk red wines in...
by Richard Moyse | Apr 20, 2026 | News
There are just so many producers around the world taking this grape and knocking it out of the park – both for flavour AND value. The wines are just so wonderfully aromatic, with lashings of juicy peach and honeyed citrus, all mingling with layers of exotic spice. So...
by Richard Moyse | Feb 18, 2026 | News
The global wine industry in early 2026 is navigating a major crisis characterized by historically low consumption and production, forcing widespread vineyard removals in France and California. While volume sales slump due to changing demographics and health trends,...
by Richard Moyse | Nov 14, 2025 | News
In 2025, global wine output is inching towards recovery – up 3% from 2024 – where wine production nosedived to a 63-year low. However, it is still 7% below the five-year average, according to initial data from the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV)....
by Richard Moyse | Sep 9, 2025 | News
Global wine sales have now declined for three years – and the causes are structural and transitory – but there are solutions. Almost no major markets are in growth mode… and the US, for both domestic and foreign suppliers, has been declining since the middle of...
by Richard Moyse | Jul 16, 2025 | News
It’s been drained of personality. Zero percent beer has become better and better and a more than acceptable alternative to alcoholic beers. But Vintners are in no rush to join the party. A few weeks ago, I took a bottle of non-alcoholic wine, along with other wines,...
by Richard Moyse | Aug 21, 2024 | News
After a growing season of marked climatic contrasts, Chile’s 2024 harvest has been declared as excellent. This year’s harvest has been unusually long in Chile, spanning as many as four months, due to opposing conditions in the far north of the country, compared to the...
by Richard Moyse | Apr 18, 2024 | News
Thanks to its rediscovery, the long misunderstood grape variety has slowly carved a path to success. If Carmenère were a saying, it would without a doubt be “everything comes to those who wait”. This black grape variety has been around for centuries, and yet it has...
