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UK consumers

Women agree to disagree on wine

June 8, 2011

A recent survey conducted by Vinexpo on women and wine in United Kingdom, France, Germany, Hong Kong and the US showed that cultural differences are an important factor of differentiation in appreciating wine. What did those women agree upon? They usually prefer red wine over white wine. They are driving the sales for rosé wines:  [...]

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BYOB, answer to the business downturn in restaurants?

June 11, 2010

BYOB is popular in the US and in Australia and totally discouraged in France. I just read in Decanter.com that England is not very keen on the system either.  But two Bristish entrepreneurs are trying to beat the system by creating the Bring your Own Bottle Club in partnership with Nicolas. The system is astute: [...]

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Branding a wine region

June 17, 2009

When a wine is very much connected to a region, should one try to get it more awareness by branding the region first, before branding the wines? This is a pertinent (if difficult) question when reading the last study conducted by Wine Intelligence and presented during the London Wine Fair in May 2009. Wine Intelligence [...]

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Yellow Tail in music

April 30, 2009

Funny story: Yellow Tail, the number 1 Australian wine brand in the US, is to launch in the UK a music and wine promotional campaign. British wine consumers will have the privilege to drink their Rosé with R&B, their Bubbles with Classic Pop and their Chardonnay with 80s rock. Will this “alliance” between a wine [...]

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UK consumers prefer American wines

December 16, 2008

Bad news for the French wine industry: for the first time ever, UK consumers drank more American wines than French wines. According to decanter.com, “Sales of American wine in the off-trade grew 5% to £781m in the year to November, while French wine sales fell 3% to £780m.” Why is that? Americans know how to [...]

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