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Winemaker Vintage Wines Estates To Go Public Through Blank-Check Deal

Vintage Wine Estates Inc said it would merge with a blank-check firm to go public in a deal that values the California-based winemaker at ar...

Naked Wines Back Online After Outage As Online Demand Surges

Online wine seller Naked Wines said on Friday its website is up and running after being down for about an hour due to a surge in early Christmas shopping t...

Wine Sector Needs More EU Support In 'COVID Winter': Farm Group

The European Union's wine sector will need more support measures to survive renewed coronavirus measures that are slashing out-of-home demand lik...

France Raises Wine Output Forecast After Late Charentes Rain

France raised its forecast for 2020 wine production, saying that increased output after rain during the grape harvest in the Charentes region had...

Sales Surge Likely - Once Stock Is Secured

Given the current disruption to the supply chain, the surge in wine sales across retailers in recent weeks, and the collapse of on trade sales, what wines...

Booze Bonanza For Shops Masks Beer And Spirits Downturn

When Lionel Platteuw started planning how he would cope under Belgium's coronavirus lockdown, there was one item he wanted to make sure he had enough of -...

OIV Says COVID-19 Crisis May Cut Wine Sales In Europe By Half

The closure of bars and restaurants to contain the spread of COVID-19 has slashed global wine sales, and winemakers' revenues in Europe coul...

Producers Fear Buyers Will Lose Taste For Italian Wines

Italian vintners fear that foreign buyers will turn their noses up at their latest wines after the country was hit by Europe's worst outbreak of coronaviru...