Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Importer Flint Wines launches first own-label English wine

Published: 14 September, 2026

Flint Wines has announced the launch of its first ever own-label English wine, the sparkling rosé Cedd.

Island wines: Gaining attention

Published: 13 August, 2026

What do Hokkaido, Essex, Pico, Gorgona and Tinos have in common? That’s right – they are all islands that produce wine. But Essex? Yes, it earns its place here too. Just why, I’ll explain further down. The fact is, island wines have become a thing just as Matt Damon’s epic return to Ithaca in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has got us all thinking about Greek islands. Greece, of course, epitomises island wines (though I would not put Odysseus’s Ithaca quite at the top of the list).

Emma Rice joins English producer The Heretics as winemaker

Published: 10 June, 2026

English wine producer The Heretics has announced that Emma Rice is set to join as in-house winemaker.

Record performance for still wines at ninth WineGB Awards

Published: 25 June, 2025

Still wines have outshone sparklers for the first time at the annual WineGB Awards, accounting for more than half the entries and gaining 161 medals compared to sparkling’s 151.