Bibendum PLB has added some “new and exciting” wines to its portfolio in the shape of Canada’s Norman Hardie and Stratus Vineyards.

The blood of Christ is now being served in a “convenient” plastic-wrapped cup in a move that takes the phrase ‘mass production’ quite literally.

British drinkers paid 5.2% more for alcohol in January than in December, as booze led a rise in consumer inflation which was offset by falling food and fuel prices.

Maynard James Keenan, frontman of American metal bands Tool, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, is to headline at Pinot Noir NZ 2017 in Wellington next year.

Armit Wines has added four new Californian wines to its portfolio, none of which has been represented in the UK before.

McDonald`s in South Korea to start selling beer

Asian nations sweeten to idea of sugar taxes

The US is experiencing a surge in wine consumption driven by millennials, who drank 42% of all wine in the US last year, according to the latest report from the Wine Market Council (WMC).

Cairanne has been formally promoted to a Cotes du Rhone cru appellation with the confirmation due to be decreed soon.

The 2011 vintage of St Emilion grand cru classe `A`, Pavie, has quietly been one of the most searched for wines on the Liv-ex exchange in the last month.