Wine

  Text & Photos: Chris Graeme; Other Photos: Supplied When thinking about champagne, the mind first turns to celebrations and the rich and wealthy; celebrities like Joan Collins who [...]

The Sovereign Group, a successful asset management and wealth group started off in a small office in 1987. Today it has 600 employees across 20 offices in multiple international jurisdictions [...]

Both in distribution and sales to restaurants, wine sales in the first half of the year fell in terms of the number of litres, but grew in value, with the average price rising 4.2% Portuguese [...]

US wine importers have stopped taking orders of Portuguese wines because of the uncertainty of reciprocal tariffs threatened by the US government. Paulo Amorim, president of ANCEVE, the national [...]

Graham’s has launched its first Porto Tawny 80 Years, a limited edition of just 600 bottles created by Charles Symington of Symington Family Estates, in honor of his father, Peter Symington. It [...]

The Confederation of Farmers of Portugal (CAP) has called on the government to “actively protect Portugal’s wine sector”, which faces being “heavily penalised” following the [...]

Donald Trump’s threat on Thursday to slap a massive 200% tariff on wines effectively means that Portuguese wine exports, which are worth €100 million a year, could be priced out of the huge US [...]

The Algarve produced 1,982,177 litres of wine in 2024 – a 20% growth in production on 2023. This is according to figures from Sara Silva, president of the Algarve Wine Commission (CVA), an [...]

This year the largest wine producer on the Island of Pico in the Azores, PicoWines, celebrated its 75th anniversary. Essential Business was invited to join in the celebrations and discovered how [...]

Australian property entrepreneurs David Clarkin and Andrew Homan are creating a sustainable luxury wine resort in Cartaxo near Santarém. ODE Winery Farm & Living will offer the perfect wine [...]