Wine
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A significant proportion of operators do not encourage their staff to upsell and many managers shun training, with operators failing to see that simple cost-effective measures will encourage customers to opt for quality over value. It's time to realise what opportunities are being missed.
Posted: 18 March 2011 | 15:22
Our seasonal recipe for boned and rolled pig's head with mashed potato and caper jus is taken from First Catch Your Pig, a book put together by the chefs from the award-winning Milestone pub/restaurant in Sheffield.
Posted: 21 January 2011 | 13:59
The UK has cemented its position as the world's biggest importer of wine and is set to see its consumption of all types of the drink climb to 151.5 million cases by 2014. Meanwhile, total wine sales in the UK are also set to climb slightly to almost £9b by 2014. Despite that, the average retail price of a bottle has fallen slightly, to £5.23 in 2010.
Posted: 13 January 2011 | 12:01
Aggi Sverrisson chef-director of Texture in London, creates two dishes for Caterersearch: Beetroot salad with goat cheese snow and a traditional Scandinavian dish Gravlax. Xavier Rousset, Sverrison's partner at Texture and the restaurant's sommelier matches the dishes with wine.
Posted: 27 October 2010 | 12:43
Andrea Briccarello and Daniel Fancett, head sommelier and pastry chef at London restaurant Galvin La Chapelle, have won this year's Wines of Roussillon Dessert Trophy.
Posted: 26 October 2010 | 17:36
Caterer joins Royan Sayburn MS and a group of sommeliers at the English wine harvest at Hush Heath Estate in Kent.
Posted: 25 October 2010 | 15:29
Ronan Sayburn is a Master Sommelier, previous winner of the UK Sommelier of the Year competition and competed twice representing the UK in the European Sommelier Competition. In these videos Sayburn shows how to decant wine and how to open a bottle of port using a feather.
Posted: 16 September 2010 | 17:22
London gastropub owners Tom and Ed Martin have launched a wine training scheme for their pub managers in a bid to improve staff knowledge and to help boost sales. The duo's ETM Group, a former Catey winner, runs eight pubs across the capital including the Botanist on Sloane Square, the Empress of India in Victoria Park and the Gun in Docklands.
Posted: 30 July 2010 | 16:05
Natural wines have no sulphur dioxide, sugar or foreign yeasts and are making their way onto a wide range of wine lists, everywhere from small independent bars to Michelin-starred restaurants. Fiona Sims explains how to select and sell them
Posted: 22 July 2010 | 09:43
Sommelier Xavier Rousset is co-proprietor of London restaurant Texture together with chef Agnar Sverrisson. The duo have just launched their second venture, 28-50 Wine Workshop and Kitchen, in the City. Rousset spoke to Kerstin Kühn.
Posted: 02 July 2010 | 13:14
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Public sector cuts likely to hit Greene King star Belhaven; KFC abandons halal-only menus at five sites; explosion at Brakes food depot injures 28; Fifi and Ally café bar owner goes into liquidation and more ...
Posted: 28 June 2010 | 10:21
Cornishman Mark Hellyar left a career as a successful businessman five years ago to start producing wine in Bordeaux. Now his wine, Chateau Civrac, is stocked at several Michelin-starred restaurants, most recently at Le Gavroche. Neil Gerrard finds out how he has done it
Posted: 25 June 2010 | 12:13
Tom and Ed Martin's White Swan pub in London's Fetter Lane is hold a special wine-matching dinner to celebrate South African wine ahead of the World Cup.
The pub is set to serve a five-course feast, paired with a selection of wines from the prestigious South African wine estate Vergelegen.
Posted: 26 May 2010 | 10:34
Gordon Ramsay is facing a second lawsuit over unpaid wine bills at his two-Michelin-starred restaurant in New York. Last week Wineberry America filed a lawsuit against the celebrity chef and Blackstone Group, which now operates the restaurant at the London hotel in midtown Manhattan, over unpaid bills of nearly $41,000 (£28,000).
Posted: 11 May 2010 | 12:20
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is being sued by a US wine merchant over more than $40,000 (£27,000) of unpaid bills at his eponymous restaurant in New York.
Wineberry America is suing Ramsay and Blackstone Group,...
Posted: 05 May 2010 | 12:51
Our weekly round of of the week's hospitality news includes: Story of the week: Election 2010: The date may only have been officially set earlier this month, but it seems as though this election race has been more of a marathon than a sprint, and more...
We find out what will the parties do for hospitality?
Posted: 30 April 2010 | 16:16
Christopher Delalonde MS, sommelier with Sarment Wines, London, has been crowned Champagne Piper-Heidsieck UK Sommelier of the Year 2010 following a final held at the new Westbury Gallery at the Westbury Mayfair hotel, London, yesterday.
Posted: 29 April 2010 | 12:55
Ask anybody in hospitality who they think of upon hearing the word “wine” and the answer will be unanimous: Gérard Basset . Basset, the co-founder of Hotel du Vin and now co-owner, with wife, Nina, of Hotel Terravina in the New Forest, is the only person in the world to hold the combined titles of Master of Wine, Master Sommelier, Wine MBA and, as of April 2010, World's Best Sommelier.
Posted: 26 April 2010 | 17:54
Over the past week, the nation's response to the volcanic ash hovering far overhead progressed from amused surprise ("Mount what"?) to worried concern, as grounded flights left hundreds of thousands of air travellers stranded here and abroad.
Posted: 23 April 2010 | 14:33
South African wine has taken off at breakneck speed in Britain - we now drink more of it than French wine. Fiona Sims visits some of the region's most exciting producers to find which wines are of 'must list' status
Posted: 22 April 2010 | 16:05
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