Waitrose Starts Exporting English Wine To China

By Glass of Bubbly | 13th April 2017

Waitrose has become the first supermarket to start exporting English wine to China. As part of the supermarket’s support of the English wine industry, four English sparkling wines will be sold through the Royal Mail store on Tmall, the huge Chinese online marketplace operated by Alibaba Group, from 12 April. With over 100 wines available…

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English Sparkling Wine Sales Soar

By Glass of Bubbly | 6th January 2016

It was expected that English sparkling wine would be many people’s choice of drink this festive season and it seems it was true! Waitrose reported record Christmas sales of English sparkling wine,  up 188% from the previous years. Marks & Spencer also revealed a 300% increase in sales of Chapel Down English Sparkling Brut and…

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Celebrate New Year with English Sparkling Wine

By Glass of Bubbly | 30th December 2015

If you want to try some English sparkling wine to see in the New Year, we’ve put together a list of all the ones that are available in UK supermarkets. Waitrose and Marks and Spencer defintely lead the way in stocking English sparkling wine. It will be interesting to see how much more widely available English…

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