First Cumbrian whisky distillery for over a century calls for investors to join Founders Club

From ice buckets to food-matching and training to trips, the main champagne houses all have the on-trade on their radar for this year. Richard Woodard takes a look at what’s on offer

Fret over sluggish card payments no more – Bartab has launched an app to speed up purchases

Entries for our fourth annual wine list competition now open

Management take over wine business

Fluid Movement's Hampstead-based enterprises Dach & Sons and Flat P close their doors

At a time when pubs are closing at a terrifying rate, Bath Ales has opened three venues in the last year.

Lyndon Higginson to open second Manchester bar

All the winners from this evening's awards ceremony at Paramount in London

Wholesaler Ooberstock celebrates further funding by offering free delivery

Is it a bartender? Is it a sommelier? No, it’s service industry superman Stuart McCluskey – the brains behind Edinburgh’s The Bon Vivant bars and a host of other businesses besides. Laura Foster manages to get him to sit still for five minutes

Matthew Clark's prestige fizz promotion

Forty-eight hours, 4,000 officers and 297 arrests

New iPad menu from Iris at 1 Lombard Street

Online classroom for Robinsons tenants