WSET debate: Education and Training
On the eve of the Wine & Sprit Education Trust’s (WSET) graduation ceremony in London’s Guildhall in January (see over), Harpers brought together a cross trade group of those involved in education,...
View ArticleSWA appoints its first female CEO
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has appointed a new CEO.
View ArticleHarpers' Hot 100: Celebrating the most influential people in the on-trade
Welcome to the launch of Harpers’ Hot 100, a new annual feature that looks to identify and celebrate the most influential people in the quality drinks-focused on-trade.
View ArticleWhy this isn't the time for the trade to seek a cut in duty
Being a passive observer, rather than an active member, of the wine trade can bring into focus how slow it is to change
View ArticleThe political threat to our wine life
“Stick to wine, Tim – you’re wasting time.” If you spend as many hours as I do on social media channels, you get used to – and even rather enjoy – the odd spat, but this was different.
View ArticleJerry Lockspeiser: Marketing - saint or devil?
Two packets of Paracetamol, both 500mg and 16 in a box, with the same usage instructions. Both Boots brands. The pills in the red and white box are in tablet form. It costs 25p. The pills in the...
View ArticleWSTA’s Miles Beale on the Budget: Unsurprising surprises
What was surprising about the result of the Budget this year was that it that it did not contain any surprises.
View ArticleInterview: Warren Gibson, chief winemaker Trinity Hill
Trinity Hill winemaker Warren Gibson muses on the future of New Zealand’s wine industry
View ArticleQ&A: Paul Jenkins and Guillem Kerambrun
Harpers met Caprice Holdings & The Birley Group’s purchasing director and its head sommelier/group wine buyer at Annabel’s to discuss buying across such a diverse portfolio
View ArticleQ&A: Louis Fabrice-Latour, president, BIVB
The seventh Louis Latour to head up this 200-year-old family firm talks to Harpers about prices, innovation and the need for premiumisation
View ArticleJerry Lockspeiser: Will we ever understand our consumers?
Like many others of my wine generation, I have spent considerable time trying to create wines that will appeal to consumers.
View ArticleTim Atkin MW: Why selling brilliance takes a little more effort than simply...
What makes a good wine merchant? As a significant chunk of the UK trade returns from Bordeaux, having tasted their way through a few hundred samples of youthful, unfinished claret of varying degrees of...
View ArticleGuy Woodward: Restaurants are missing a trick with dull, predictable wine lists
The Sunday Times’ recent 1,100-word review of Aster, the rather fun new opening from the D&D group, included an illuminating insight into the French–Scandi restaurant’s wine offering, which I shall...
View ArticleProfile: Berkmann Wine Cellars
With the full induction into the company some 14 years ago of Rupert Berkmann, son of founder Joseph, family business Berkmann Wine Cellars has been undergoing a quiet revolution.
View ArticleQ&A: Joe Fattorini, IWSC Wine Communicator 2017, talks passion vs...
Presenter and writer Joe Fattorini has made a career out communicating about wine.
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