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The week that was
the drinks business presents this week’s round up of wine, beer, spirits and other related news items.
Click through our highlights from news sites and social media across the world.
Wine news
- The Telegraph tell reports that the wine bar is back, but without the snobbery or the shoulder pads.
- The Vivino app has revealed that the number of English wines being reviewed has increased by 83% since 2015.
- Bordeaux wine sellers are feeling the effects of a weaker pound as tariff fears dampen British sales, finds The Telegraph.
- Fine wine fraudsters are getting their empties off eBay, reports the The Times.
- Tony Laithwaite of Laithwaite’s Wine talks to The Financial Times about making his first million.
- Drew Barrymore tells Fortune what she loves most about wine.
Beer news
- A German Football Club has offered Ronaldo a lifetime supply of beer if he joins, it’s just a shame he’s teetotal.
- Brits in Finland face prison after crossing border to Russia to drink beer and posting photos on Snapchat.
- The man trying to grow his own beer on his allotment in Devon.
- Sierra Nevada is taking its beer camp global, featuring six international and six US brews.
- The Guardian asks why craft beer loves are falling for murky ales.
Spirits news
- the spirits business reports that Brewdog has “resolved its differences” with an independent Birmingham pub over a trademark dispute by creating a collaborative gin.
- Court backs Captain Morgan in trademark battle Heaven Hill’s Admiral Nelson rum.
- European spirits exports reached €10.2 billion in 2016, surging by 5%.
- Beam Suntory has launched a new US marketing campaign for its Courvoisier Cognac brand starring American rapper A$AP Rocky.
- Bombay Sapphire has announced the worldwide expansion of its bartender brand advocacy initiative.
Other news
- The Shropshire Star meets Ernie, the wine drinking, crisp munching and TV watching Ibis.
- The largest ‘bottle’ of Albariño in the world has been converted into a hotel room.
- London’s White Lyan set to transform into sustainable restaurant.
- Asthma UK has revealed that drinking clear spirits lessens the effect of alcohol on hay fever.
- Eurocrats have been advised not to drink during Brexit negotiations.
- Dodgy wine and a queue for the loos? Not in our theatres says Rosemary Squire and Sir Howard Panter.