Special prosecutor investigating Monarch Beverage

Sotheby’s is to hold a three-day sale in New York this May featuring some 20,000 bottles from the cellar of billionaire US collector and anti-fraud campaigner, Bill Koch.

A pop-up bar serving only natural bag-in-box wines is set to return to London for a six month stint throughout the summer.

Two “superb” collections of vintage Champagne and claret will lead Bonhams’ next London sale on 14 April.

Tickets to this year’s International Cool Climate Wine Symposium are expected to sell out “well in advance of the event”, organisers have warned.

Rosé producers have until just 14 April to enter The Drinks Business Global Rosé Masters 2016.

Baron Philippe de Rothschild has partnered with golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. to design this year’’s limited edition Ryder Cup Mouton Cadet bottle.

Scottish brewer Innis & Gunn has launched what it claims to be the “world’s first” beer marmalade to mark the launch of The Beer Kitchen in Dundee.

Scottish craft brewer Brewdog will launch its new spirits arm next month, almost two years after announcing its intention to take on the spirits world.

Some of the first impressions of the 2015 Bordeaux vintage have started to come in and are both positive and point to a strong showing from the Right Bank.