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Sunset at Giants Causeway - Fake trends

Luck of the Irish

The Irish wine market weathered the storms of a brutal global recession, but will its luck run out under the pressures of minimum pricing, Brexit, and a weaker pound? As “an island off an island off the European Continent” as one…
Open book in library - Fake trends

De legem ad vinum

Our US country manager reflects on her journey from maritime law to wine industry research It has been a busy week for the Wine Intelligence London office, with our European counterparts descending on London for a quick catch-up and a…
Bubbles - Fake trends

Sparkling future?

English sparkling wine will overcome its latest frost-bitten setback, but longer term challenges lie ahead Growing grapes in a climate such as the UK was never going to be easy. Whatever the history of winemaking in Britain (dating back,…
Portugal - Fake trends

Portugal: the Euro Vision

Can the EU’s most southwesterly outpost turn football and singing success into an economic comeback? In Portugal, green is the colour of hope. It carries quite an important meaning, if not for the happiest reasons: it is believed that…
Santiago e1493737854260 - Fake trends

Dispatches from wine’s global village

With just our Geisenheim and Porto workshops left to deliver, we look back on our series of Global Trends Workshops in London, Sydney, Barcelona, and Santiago Wine Intelligence’s Global Trends Workshop series is now in its third year; an…
Green apples and one red apple - Fake trends

Fake trends

  We are living in an exciting era – but some innovations really are too good to be true We would be forgiven to believe that anything was possible nowadays. Consider the following facts: It took us at least 100,000…