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Our winemaking philosophy is to produce the highest quality wines with the least intervention possible. We are zealous about growing without irrigation, commercial herbicides, or fertilizers and we select only the best grapes from our Estate, Certified Organic vineyard. We hand-harvest in the cool of the night, ferment using native yeasts, and age the wine in French oak barrels longer than typical, for more complexity. The wines are not fined or filtered.

Get ready to visit stand L40, where the National Tax Agency of Japan presents the Japan Pavilion. Experience a fusion of Japanese culture and craftsmanship as you explore their Pavilion, featuring 15 co-exhibitors showcasing an exquisite array of unique Japanese alcoholic beverages. And there's more! Don't miss out on the opportunity to indulge in Japanese cocktails crafted by their professional bartender at their exclusive bar.

Is that a statement of fact or a question? A bit of both. There can be no doubt the increase in the quality of English sparkling wine over the last 20 years has helped transform an industry that had long been making wine, but little of it was renown, or even known, around the world. Now English sparkling wines sit side by side with some of the most famous and glamorous Champagne brands on wine lists in some of the most prestigious restaurants around the globe. Their success has helped not only give the English wine sector a new found confidence it has also brought huge levels of investment with vineyards being planted in every grape growing region of the British Isles. Even famous Champagne houses are buying up chunks of the English countryside to cash in on the English wine revolution.

Really? I did not know they were. How do you mean? Well, try this for a game. Type luxury wine brand into Google and what do you see? A number of what you might define as major global wine producers each having their own luxury brands division or separate luxury wines portfolios. It seems having a premium or even super premium category for your high-end wines is no longer good enough. To really stand out and be seen as aspirational you now need to push yourself into the luxury class.

Hermione Ireland takes a look back at what drove Steven Spurrier ahead of the monumental Judgement of Paris in 1976 and considers how the impact of his life’s work has guided the current, broader Judgment of London at LWF24

What is circularity, and what is its potential to generate positive impact? This burning question lies at the heart of the upcoming masterclass, "Tech-Infused Vineyards: Tasting Circularity for Winery Prosperity," set to take place at the Education Zone of the London Wine Fair on May 21st at noon. In a world increasingly driven by the imperative of environmental, social and economic stewardship, understanding and implementing circularity in the wine industry is not just about sustainability; it's about securing a prosperous future for wineries worldwide.

The wine fair wouldn’t be the wine fair without a buzzword weaving its way through Olympia’s ruby-carpeted corridors. Last year, it very quickly transpired that ‘regenerative’ was the chosen one, firmly blowing 2022’s ‘sustainability’ out of the buzzword water, and rightly so.

Hold on before you start answering that what do you mean by a producer-owned UK wine importer? Exactly what it says on the tin. A UK wine importer, distributor or supplier that is owned - or part owned - by a separate wine producer business. It is fast becoming the go to trading model for many of our most well known, established and respected wine suppliers - and also a way into the UK market for new suppliers to set themselves up.

Exhibitors - Do make sure your team co-ordinate their meeting planners, to ensure that there’s never a time when everyone is booked up. After all, you will still need people manning the stand!

Big and buzzy they might be, but trade fairs aren’t always efficient. As Justin Liddle, MD of Mentzendorff puts it, ‘‘How often have you spent the day waiting for a particular buyer to come along and then the minute you step away for fifteen minutes you discover they’ve lingered and gone?’

Really that sounds very grown up? Who did you steal that line from? Ah, you can see right through me. OK, that actually comes from advertising legend turned wine producer, Sir John Hegarty - he of Vorsprung Durch Technik and Levi jeans advertising fame - who fears the wine industry is being left behind, as it is too often driven by industry and not consumer-driven innovation?

London Wine Fair will host an homage to the late Steven Spurrier’s landmark “Judgment of Paris”, a tasting which created shockwaves around the wine world in 1976, when the Californians trumped the French in a blind tasting. “Judgement of London” will be a significantly updated version to reflect the breadth and maturity of today’s fine wine market. Whilst the original tasting saw current vintages of Bordeaux and Burgundy pitched against their Californian counterparts, the 2024 version will see a broader inclusion of European icon wines and The Rest of the World equivalents, a more realistic benchmarking nearly half a century on.

Several of the UK’s leading agents, importers and logistics companies will make a return to the London Wine Fair in 2024. They include: Mentzendorff, which will take a stand for the first time in 12 years; Buckingham Schenk, celebrating their 50th anniversary; Freixenet Copestick; Hillebrand Gori UK; Lanchester Wines; and Origin Wine.

In a little over three months, Olympia will open its doors to the 2024 edition of the London Wine Fair – the most important event in the drinks industry’s calendar – and visitor registration is now open.

The organisers of the London Wine Fair are delighted to announce the dates and venue for next year’s show, as well as a brand-new fine wine feature. The 2024 edition will take place at Olympia from 20th to 22nd May.

We caught up with Eric Aracil, co-director in charge of exports for the Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Roussillon (CIVR), ahead of his venue to the 2023 London Wine Fair (LWF). We ask him to explain what sets Roussillon apart and what we can expect from the Wines of Roussillon stand (B40) at LWF.

Romania will be present with a national Pavilion from May 15-17, 2023 at one of the world’s leading trade fairs for wines and spirits and the most intelligent event of its kind, namely the London Wine Fair.

The London Wine Fair has announced the 2023 Wine Writers Edit: a top 30 of “must taste” drinks which 10 of the U.K.’s foremost wine writers and influencers have selected from the thousands of products taking part this year. Greece and South Africa are the leading countries, with four wines apiece featured. But 10% of the wines selected are from one county: Devon. Three wines, all from Sandbridge Barton – The Home of Sharpham Wines, have made it into the top 30: 2020 Blanc de Noir; 2021 Pinot Gris “Wild Ferment”; and 2022 Dart Valley Reserve.

The competition, now in its eighth year, represents the pinnacle of Champagne and gastronomy pairing. This year’s competition will, once again, attract the very best contestants, in a continued partnership with Le Cordon Bleu London with new 2023 partners The Sommelier Edit and London Wine Fair. The competition recognises and awards up-and-coming sommelier and chef partnerships who create perfect food and wine pairings in restaurants and other eateries all over the country.

OK you might not want to turn up at a dinner party with a bottle of Tesco Finest, but if you did you can be pretty much guaranteed no one would complain about what it tastes like. Private label, own label, or exclusive wines are the benchmark setters for the industry. Wines that have probably had more scrutiny and attention paid to how they are made than the average branded wine on shelf. These are the wines that a retailer, a restaurant group, a pub, or hotel chain is putting their prized name to. These are the wines they are most proud of and take very seriously indeed...

20 Portuguese producers, from North to South, will be waiting for your visit, from May 15th to 17th, inside the Wines Unearthed area at the London Wine Fair (Olympia London) to show you what they have to offer.

We are in the age of transparency and authenticity, with consumers becoming increasingly aware of the climate and biodiversity crisis we are living in. According to NIQ, 69% of consumers would like to know more information about the products they purchase to understand how they contribute to a better planet.

Ten years after launching Coravin, Greg Lambrecht, inventor and founder, will be attending London Wine Fair on May 15 & 16th.

How many different types of wine bottle are actually in use? What prevents a bottle from being reused? This is the million-dollar question that a three-way partnership between The Porto Protocol, London Wine Fair and Sustainable Wine Solutions (SWS) hopes to answer.

The rapid growth in sales and profile of Georgian wine to the UK may seem surprising to some. But for Georgians it is the reward of more than a decade of collective effort. Exports of Georgian wine to the UK increased 10-fold in the 5 years from 2016 to 2021 (2022 figures are pending). The great work has been to “diversify markets”; to cut the twisted chord to Russia, which has been for a century or so Georgia’s principal wine customer. The relationship reminds me of a bad ex.

Is it really? What makes you say that. The fact you have even asked that question reveals the problem the industry has. For large parts of the wine sector the independent grocery, and convenience channels are after thoughts, if they are even a thought at all. When the wine industry talks about independents it means the few hundred specialist independent wine merchants and not the tens of thousands of grocery stores embedded in every local community in the country. Retailers that are too often dismissed as the local corner shop that you would only go to when you have run out of milk, or want to buy a National Lottery ticket. The fact they also sell millions of bottles of wine a year seems, for many, to be completely ignored.

Stop talking about themselves - who are they going to talk about? Their customer. Their target audience. The people, or businesses, they hope are going to buy their wine. But how many companies, brands, or individuals for that matter, ever do? We are all too busy telling the world about ourselves to ever stop to think what we look and sound like to the very people we are trying to talk to.

The rise of English sparkling wine over the last 20 years is, to my mind, our industry’s most notable – and successful – story this century. I don't think it’s patriotic hyperbole to say that, in the last 20 years, the wine world has witnessed the emergence, for the first time in four decades, of a wholly new region, recognised globally for a specific style and innate identity.

Sounds interesting - why are you asking this now? Well, if you eavesdrop on any conversation between a producer, supplier or retailer, the issue of glass and what a massive headache it has become for everyone in the supply chain, will come up within a few moments.

For well over a decade, it has been clear that across industries, businesses would live and die by their approach to sustainability, and how they communicate on it. Today, a coherent ESG strategy is, almost universally, considered essential for companies, not only because it’s ‘the right thing to do,’ but also because it is vital for staff retention, building relationships with suppliers and customers and engaging with the end consumer.

What makes you so worried about the future of online - I thought it was the gift that keeps on giving?

Just over four thousand people voted for their Old Vine Hero last week: proof of the power of old vines to move us.

The London Wine Fair is set to welcome a host of first-time exhibitors for the 2023 event, with a significantly increased presence from key European countries.