Fortress prepares to offload Majestic Wine Retail The owner of Britain’s biggest specialist wine retailer are drawing up plans to offload the retailer nearly seven years after its operations were bought out of its London-listed company. Fortress Investment Group is in the early stages of preparing to launch a sale of Majestic Wine, which it took control of in 2019, according to [...]
Picking the perfect wine for the City AM Awards Life&Style The City AM awards was buzzing last week as titans of industry and charity, tech entrepreneurs, hospitality bigwigs and global leaders of finance stepped onto the red carpet and into the vaulted rooms of Guildhall. A band played as I swigged fizzing cold Crémant with the Naked Wines team before being gathered into the main [...]
Libby’s Naked Wines Diary: Even students can enjoy great wines Wine I feel for final year University students right now. When the world is just waking up to those stirrings of spring and longer, sunnier days, they are finishing lengthy dissertations or beginning to cram for exams. Undoubtedly, having left it until the eleventh hour, the next few weeks for many will be spent tangled in [...]
Naked Wines promises to ‘recalibrate’ business with new growth plan March 27, 2025 Naked Wines has released details of its new strategic growth plan as it promises to “recalibrate” the businesses to drive growth. The wine seller also announced that its trading performance “continues to track in line with expectations” ahead of full-year results later this year. Its share price rose more than 11 per cent in early [...]
International Women’s Day: The future of women in wine March 3, 2025 This International Women’s Day, I caught up with Queena Wong, a wine enthusiast who is helping to reshape the industry for the better Queena Wong has become a controversial character in wine after spearheading the first UK Women in Wine Survey. According to marketing research agency PROOF Insight, 78 per cent of the women who [...]
Why The Gallivant is a wine-lover’s happy place February 25, 2025 Oh, The Gallivant, how I love you. I would say “let me count the ways” but there would be too many for this column’s wordcount. Despite my loving almost any excuse for a celebration, Valentines Day has not cut the proverbial mustard enough times and it has lost its lustre. Going out means sitting elbow [...]
Dancing the Brave Goose to Britney February 12, 2025 MY FRIEND Lela is wild, heaps of fun and always seems to be doing something exciting with her time. One evening I casually liked her Instagram story in which she was strutting her stuff at a dance class, and found myself agreeing to join her for the next one. SOS Dance pitch themselves as “The [...]
The Best Wine List in London February 11, 2025 STOP the press! I have found it! The golden fleece of gastronomy. This is the best wine list in London. Now, admittedly, I have not tried every single wine list in our sprawling capital but given my proclivities, I have tried a great many – and rarely, if ever, have I found one as beguiling, [...]
From Rapid Tapping to mindful drinking with Poppy Delbridge February 5, 2025 I AM ALWAYS looking for ways to balance wine and wellness, to discover new ways to embrace a healthy lifestyle while enjoying a tipple. So when Poppy Delbridge invited me to her Rapid Tapping session at the refurbished Kensington Roof Gardens, I jumped at the chance. Rapid Tapping is nothing to do with getting your [...]
BEST PINK FIZZ TO SHOW YOUR LOVE TO YOUR VALENTINE February 4, 2025 VALENTINES’ Day approaches, so which bottle are you going to whip out for your partner, lover, or friend-with-benefits? There is something classically romantic about a pink sparkling wine and those two qualities just happen to be undergoing a rise in popularity in the UK. Rosé Champagne dates back to the late 18th Century, though there [...]