Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Trade says fond farewell to Hallgarten Druitt co-founder

Published: 19 November, 2019

One of the UK’s largest and longest-standing suppliers has paid tribute to one of its luminaries, who has passed away after a short illness.

Q&A: Jose Balado, beverage manager, Arros QD

Published: 12 November, 2019

Andrew Catchpole talks wine, paella and Mediterranean fusion at Michelin three-star chef Quique Dacosta’s London outpost

Tom Aikens' new Muse

Published: 07 November, 2019

MUSE

Bottles brings Italian style to Chelsea

Published: 05 November, 2019

BOTTLES

Chakana heads to Birmingham

Published: 31 October, 2019

CHAKANA

How to build a restaurant wine list

Published: 16 October, 2019

When a new restaurant is launched everyone focusses on the food (and more often than not the person behind the food), but how do you put the wine list centre stage?

Michelin awards first star to UK vineyard restaurant

Published: 08 October, 2019

Interlude, the restaurant at the Leonardslee Estate and Gardens in Sussex, has become the first restaurant attached to a UK vineyard to win a Michelin star.

Joe Fattorini: Price perception

Published: 01 October, 2019

Joe Fattorini, head of London sales at Fields, Morris & Verdin

Puttshack, the crazy golf/bar/restaurant outfit, has announced ambitious growth plans that should see it expand nationwide and internationally, with dozens of venues opening up over the next three years.

Chapel Down adds gin-making experience to its London venue

Published: 24 September, 2019

English fizz producer Chapel Down continues to expand its footprint in the gin category with a new range of gin-based experiences at its new London venue.

Q&A: Nick Bethell, Snobby's

Published: 24 September, 2019

Andrew Catchpole noses around Snobby’s, Bristol’s new gastronomic oasis offering a distinctly unsnobbish mix of great wine and cracking pizza

Fuller’s invests £2m in all-day dining venue and cocktail bar

Published: 17 September, 2019

Fuller’s has invests nearly £2m in its latest development project – upgrading The Chamberlain Hotel on Minories.

Tuscan highlights at Terra Terra

Published: 16 September, 2019

TERRA TERRA

Cahoots goes overground for latest launch

Published: 16 September, 2019

CAHOOTS: THE TICKET HALL & CONTROL ROOM

Ask a sommelier: Gaëtan Lacoste, Le Clarence, Paris

Published: 21 August, 2019

Michelin-starred Parisian restaurant Le Clarence was established in 2015 by Domaine Clarence Dillon which owns a number of historical French wine estates including Bordeaux First Growth Château Haut-Brion, Château La Mission Haut-Brion and Saint-Émilion’s Château Quintus.