Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Canada’s cool climate calls at annual tasting

Published: 03 May, 2022

The annual Canada trade tasting returns to the UK on 10 & 11 May at Canada House in central London.

South Africa celebrates 'small but high quality’ 2021 harvest

Published: 07 December, 2021

The South African wine industry has released a favourable crop estimate following the 2021 growing season.

Long read: Ventoux…young blood, cool wines

Published: 15 July, 2021

Known worldwide as the ultimate back-breaker of the Tour de France, Mount Ventoux’s reputation has been growing in other ways in recent years, gradually sprouting a reputation as the place to watch for interesting cool climate wines from the Southern Rhône.

McGuigan Wines eyes Tumbarumba expansion as part of its cool climate “plan”

Published: 08 November, 2019

McGuigan Wines has revealed a blueprint to focus on its cool climate messaging in order to continue to transform Australia’s reputation at the premium end from “in your face wines” to wines of “flavour, intensity, structure and length”.

Guy Woodward: Who’s gonna make wine woke?

Published: 06 November, 2018

Columnists are meant to have opinions. They’re meant to have answers. But there is one aspect of wine that I am at a loss to fathom. And that is the location of wine’s cool. Where is it? Who’s got it? Because no matter how you try to spin it, wine is simply not hip. It is not sick. And it is most certainly not, my homies, woke.