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Top new products: March
Koya Brandy
Brandy label Koya, made by China’s oldest and largest leading wine and spirits producer Changyu, launched in the UK last month. The brandy is produced at Chateau Koya in Yantai in northeastern China, and the portfolio comprises two expressions: Koya Brandy VSOP 6 years and Koya Brandy XO 10 years. The producer distills Ugni Blanc grapes in traditional French Charentais pot stills made by Chalvignac Prulho. The quality and style of the Koya house blend is overseen by master distiller Zhang Baochun, who is respected in China for her brandy expertise, and has over 30 years’ experience working in the industry.
Top 10 food and drink trends for 2021 6th January, 2021 by Lucy Shaw
With the coronavirus pandemic having shaped many of the food and drink trends that emerged last year, we bring you our top 10 trend predictions for 2021.
British backed hard seltzers
The hard seltzer category exploded in the UK last year and we predict that the spiked seltzer trend will gather momentum in 2021. While the category continues to be lead by US brands like White Claw and Truly, a slew of British-backed brands emerged on the scene last year, in a trend set to mushroom in 2021. Among the UK-based new players are Bodega Bay, the brainchild of former Asahi UK strategist Charlie Markland, and DRTY Hard Seltzer, founded by entrepreneur Matija Pisk, who got the idea for the brand, which is targeted at sugar shunning calorie counters, during a trip to the US in
The Drinks Business
17 December 2020 By Lauren Eads
Lockdown has given âalternativeâ wine packaging an opportunity to thrive in the UK, with bag-in-box sales in particular boosted by an increase in at-home drinking. But the industry needs to take heed of companies like Tesla if it is to challenge the glass bottle, believes one ambitious start-up looking to capture the next generation of wine drinkers.
Santiago Navarro, co-founder of Garçon Wines
Generally speaking, consumers have become more âopen-mindedâ about alternative wine packaging formats over the past three years, with lockdown boosting this trend, says Wine Intelligence CEO Richard Halstead, calling the UK a âhighly promising marketâ in terms of alternative packaging opportunities.