American model Chrissy Teigen was left having to defend herself on social media after being criticised over a $13,000 bottle of wine she ordered in a restaurant.

The Birley Wine Club has launched a London delivery service for its members, who can be sent bottles of Dom Pérignon 2010 directly to their door for £100.

The newly-formed United Sommelier Foundation is holding an auction to raise money for restaurant wine workers that have been affected by Covid-19.

LVMH Vins d’Exception is to sell-off a set of collectible labels, from Château d’Yquem to Cheval Blanc, to raise more than €500,000 for the shuttered restaurant trade in France, the UK and the US.

Between 50 and 60 bottles of wine worth around one million Danish kroner (£112,000) have been stolen after thieves smashed through a wall in a Michelin-starred restaurant in Copenhagen. 

The fine wine secondary market has a number of seemingly all-enduring labels at the top, but which are the brands coming up fast?

Naked Wines has sold its fine wine arm Lay & Wheeler for £11.3 million, completing the final sale of its former Majestic businesses.

Industry body Wine Australia is holding its Australia Redefined tasting this month, challenging the industry to rethink its perceptions of the country’s wines.

With Majestic now sold off, buyers, reportedly including the part-owner of BI Wines & Spirits, are now circling another of Naked Wines’ divisions being off-loaded – Lay & Wheeler.

Wine storage fraudster William Holder of Safe Harbour Wine Storage in Maryland has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for illegally selling on his clients’ wines.

The Boisset family has acquired Maison Alex Gambal in Burgundy in a deal that is expected to be completed this September.

Fine and rare labels will be much in evidence at Sotheby’s sale in London next week, with parcels of first growths and grand cru Burgundy taking pride of place in the line-up.