TheBuyer

Introducing a fresh platform designed to link decision-makers, buyers, and sommeliers within the premium on-trade sector, providing valuable insights, trends, opinions, and analyses. This initiative is spearheaded by Richard Siddle, an acclaimed business editor and former Harpers contributor, alongside Peter Dean, a past national film journalist, publishing executive, and the founder of Seven Publishing.

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How BCB London promises to be a showcase for best in the UK bar scene

1 day ago | the-buyer.net | Richard Siddle

For those that don’t know BCB London tell us about the concept of the show? BCB has become the leading international trade fair brand for the bar, beverage and hospitality industries and has developed over the years into a hallmark of quality for trade events in the sector. Bar owners, bartenders, distributors and manufacturers from almost 90 countries come to BCB in Berlin every year to make new contacts, learn about product innovations and attend seminars.
Lyme Bay and its mission to help English still wines reach 'icon status'

2 days ago | the-buyer.net | Richard Siddle

You have just enjoyed a very successful performance with the IWC - what did you manage to win? We’ve had an incredible result at this year’s International Wine Challenge (IWC) becoming the first English producer to win both the IWC National Trophy for Best English White Wine and the IWC National Trophy for Best English Red Wine in the same year. On top of that, we also won both the IWC Varietal Trophies for those wines.
Take Coravin & The Buyer's wine BTG survey & win £650 of Coravin kit

5 days ago | the-buyer.net | Richard Siddle

Although the hospitality sector is going through difficult times with increased costs and challenging sales, the one clear area of growth seems to be wine by-the-glass across the on-trade, both in terms of consumption and what customers are prepared to drink. A trend that is giving operators and suppliers alike the chance to introduce a wider range of wines with potentially increased sales margins.
Schenk Family UK’s “huge ambition” for its brands and customers

5 days ago | the-buyer.net | Richard Siddle

“We want to be selling global brands so we needed to get our own corporate branding right first,” says Helena Martin. That is how she introduces her strategy for the new Schenk Family UK business which will continue to act as the UK arm of the parent business in Switzerland, helping to promote and distribute its own range of wines as well as grow its increasingly important agency business working with key producers and brands from over the world.
Why Stone VIK can lay claim to being the 'ultimate natural wine'

1 week ago | the-buyer.net | Geoffrey Dean

Cristián Vallejo approached the entrance to the locked forested enclosure with deference, as if respectful of a burial site within. Which in a way it was, though not with any human connection. The Viña VIK winemaker spoke in almost reverential tones, as if paying homage to the location – high up in the coastal range between the Andes and the Pacific at 1,000 metres above sea-level.
Villa Maria’s consumer-driven focus opens way for canned & sparkling wines

1 week ago | the-buyer.net | Richard Siddle

“We want to evolve the brand, not revolutionise the brand,” is how Sarah Szegota, Indevin’s global marketing director describes the steps taken to hopefully improve and build on Villa Maria’s position as the number one New Zealand wine brand in the UK market, since its acquisition of the business in 2021.
Thinking Drinkers on supporting pubs with Great British Pub Ride

1 week ago | the-buyer.net | Richard Siddle

You are known for coming up with great ideas in pubs than usually end up on the stage, but this time you have come up with something completely different? It was actually born out of a need to take a break from the Edinburgh Fringe and touting. Ridiculous really. We've substituted touring the UK in a van for cycling the length of the UK on a tandem. But after 12 consecutive years bouncing around on stage in our underpants, we just felt we should have ago at something different for a year.
Darren Smith on swapping wine writing to following his winemaking dream

1 week ago | the-buyer.net | Richard Siddle

You made the switch from wine writer to winemaker - how did that happen? I have been pretty much obsessed with wine for half my life. Visiting wineries and going to tastings as a wine writer is very pleasant, of course, but I really wanted to be getting my hands dirty. So, I started volunteering, just to pick grapes initially - I did a couple of harvests that way, which was great. Then in 2018 I applied to do an internship with Niepoort in Portugal.
How Asahi’s Nectar has become a powerful supplier to the on-trade

1 week ago | the-buyer.net | Richard Siddle

If you were pulling together a jigsaw of all the most important wine distributors, importers and suppliers to the UK on-trade then there would be some very big pieces you would need to have in order to complete the overall puzzle. But if you are focusing just on the south of England, the M4 corridor and the south west, then Nectar Imports would have to be one of the first pieces you pick up.
How young German winemakers are facing current challenges

2 weeks ago | the-buyer.net | Victor Smart

Good wine sells itself, declares an old German proverb. And, when you have a native variety of the sheer quality of Riesling to work with, that should be enough. Riesling makes geographically expressive and long-lived wines, from sweet to bone dry. But in these days of a dramatic shift in consumer tastes, the Rhine Valley’s winemakers know they need to be canny too. The successful recent drive for quality across the board is one component, certainly. But there’s a need for more lateral thinking too.