Seeing as I've been banging on about it all month, I'll give your ears a breather from our plans for the London International Wine Fair next week. You have exactly two paragraphs grace.

Ahead of the wine fair, we're gearing up for the inaugural global soft drinks conference, hosted by our friends at Soft Drinks International magazine. The two-day event, held here in London, runs on Thursday and Friday this week. just-drinks will be there on both days, with a special discount membership offer available for attendees. Not only that, but yours truly will also chair one of the sessions at the conference.

Consider yourself incentivised.

The LIWF, meanwhile, is little more than a week away. Thanks to those of you who filled in our online survey looking at the wine market in the UK. The results came in last week, and we're going to have a lot of fun debating them at our seminar, 'The State of the Nation - The UK's wine market in 2012'. So, come and join us on Wednesday, 23 May at 1615 on stand Q75 to take part in the discussion with our expert panel.

And, if you can't make it to London next week, click here to follow the seminar live and online through just-drinks' first webinar.

I hope to catch up with many of you at either of these events.