Inside the trippy French vineyard owned by ousted Claridge’s billionaire Life&Style Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst have designed pieces for Chateau La Coste, France’s totally surreal vineyard, the vision of the billionaire who formerly owned Claridge’s. Adam Bloodworth on the trippiest Provençal escape Resting on the side of a dirt road at Chateau La Coste, a vineyard and country estate half an hour outside of Marseille, [...]
The UK’s booming wine sector offers salaries of up to £150k Wine Plumpton College has urged students and career changers to consider opportunities in the UK’s expanding wine sector as vineyard plantings and production continued to rise. To coincide with National Careers Week, the Sussex-based institution said demand for skilled professionals across viticulture, winemaking, business, marketing and hospitality had risen in line with industry expansion. The college, [...]
The British vineyards that welcome families for fun activities beyond the wine Life&Style Wine isn’t thought of as something for the whole family, but these British vineyard are inviting the whole brood As much as I adore spending time with my son, I take umbrage that I am expected to relegate myself to child-focused establishments over the holidays. No shade thrown at Pizza Express, those dough balls have [...]
Alcohol-shy Gen Z and erratic weather hits global vineyards March 5, 2025 Changing tastes and a hotter climate have made the future of global vineyards uncertain and unpredictable, according to a new report. With global wine consumption down 12 per cent from its 2007 peak and erratic weather making many sites untenable, few vineyards remain unscathed, according to Knight Frank’s annual wealth report. In France, “only about [...]
Gusbourne: Wine maker faces delisting from London’s AIM as shares plummet February 10, 2025 Shares in Gusbourne dropped more than 34 per cent this morning after the English winemaker announced it would consider delisting from London’s junior stock market, AIM. In an announcement to the London Stock Exchange, Gusbourne said it had received a letter from majority shareholder Lord Ashcroft, requesting it to hold a meeting to consider going [...]