English winemaker Wiston Estate is looking to cash in on booming on-trade sales of domestic fizz with a new distribution deal with Swig Wines. The South Downs producer’s entire range – including Wiston Estate Cuvee 2013, winner of the English Sparkling Wine Trophy at IWSC 2017 – is now available to the capital’s restaurants and bars through Swig.
If you’re still laughing at stories of Chinese wine drinkers ordering Lafite, and then diluting it with Coca-Cola, you’re out of date. Chinese taste has become more sophisticated, and more educated, and it’s happened very quickly.
I recently tried some of them at an event put on by the International Wine and Spirit Competition.
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