Leading UK wine trade figures head to London for first France Summit

Leading figures from across the UK wine trade will be attending tomorrow's inaugural Harpers France Summit that will look at how well the industry is sourcing, promoting and selling French wine across the on and off-trades.

Late Champagne harvest should still bring good balanced vintage

France Summit to reveal latest off-trade and promotional performance of French wine

Richard Evans completes his sailing race to Rio to raise money for prostate cancer

Richard Evans of Dedicated Wines has helped his team finish fourth in the first leg of the Clipper Round the World Yacht race sailing race between Southampton and Rio de Janiero as part of an initiative to help raise awareness of prostate cancer.

Asda looks to ramp up its wine offer with new bespoke online Wine Shop

Asda is to launch its first bespoke online wine offer on October 28 which will give its customers the chance to select a mixed case of six wines from a range of 500.

Your chance to take part in global international wine survey for Wine Vision conference

Harpers is conducting a major international survey of wine figures around the world to assess how the global wine industry is feeling about the opportunities and challenges facing the sector ahead of the wine leaders conference, Wine Vision, to be held in London next month.

Corks Out backs Oz Clarke's BBC Watchdog report with charts showing wine value

Corks Out, the north west independent wine merchant, is keeping the momentum going about the real cost of wine in different priced bottles of wine, as highlighted by wine critic, Oz Clarke, on last week's BBC Watchdog programme, with a series of charts it has produced to highlight the issue to its customers.

Oddbins "positive" about double-digit growth

Oddbins is on track to report double-digit growth for 2013 compared to last year, according to wine buyer, Ana Sapungui.

WSTA Conference: The trade needs to stick together

Last month's WSTA conference demonstrated how powerful the drinks sector can be when it is united and the dangers when it is not, says Richard Siddle

Richard Siddle: have we got news for you...

When Lennon & McCartney wrote the famous line "I read the news today, oh boy" way back in 1967 the chances are it would have been in the pages of a newspaper. If they had been penning that lyric today, then "the news" could have come from Twitter, Facebook,  a mobile app, a YouTube video, or a link to a website anywhere in the world.

Independents back Oz Clarke's exposure of supermarket half-price wine deals

Wine critic Oz Clarke has been applauded today by many in the trade for putting the spotlight on half-price wine deals in the major supermarkets on this week's edition of the BBC TV consumer affairs programme Watchdog.

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Gerard Basset to take part in trade wine clinic at France Summit

Master sommelier and former World Sommelier of the year, Gerard Basset, is to take part in a special wine clinic at this month's Harpers France Summit, in which he will give his expert, personal advice on how best to source, range, price and promote French wines on a wine list.

Oddbins entreprenuer Nick Baile has died

Nick Baile, who was regarded as being one of the key figures in making Oddbins a national success in its heyday during the 1970s and 1980s, has died.

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Shortlist announced for Harpers French Wine Awards

The shortlist for the inaugural Harpers French Wine Awards has been announced and includes who the trade see as being the best performing retailers, supplilers and indiviudals in promoting and selling French wine in the UK.

Round table: Reinventing Australia

The Australian wine industry continues to change in front of our eyes. To help determine what it could be doing better in the UK, Harpers teamed up with Negociants UK to ask the views of a leading group of UK independent and multiple buyers

Team Morrisons

The success of any team rests not in how good any individual might be, but how all the team members work together.

Steve Mosey on: Morrisons' wine opportunity, moving from supplier to retailer, suppliers and wine prices

Steve Mosey on: Morrisons' wine opportunity, moving from supplier to retailer, suppliers and wine prices

"We have a £100m opportunity in wine..."

Having been born and brought up in the north you know what to expect when visiting Morrisons. Dubbed the "Supermarket of the north", it was the place you went for the weekly fruit and veg and Sunday roast ingredients. It was different from other supermarkets; it was more like going to a big indoor market with different shops selling fresh meat, fish, bread and cakes. I certainly wasn't disappointed when I walked into the, unsurprisingly, spick-and-span Morrisons next door to its headquarters in Bradford last week. Dry ice floated across the fresh fruit and veg, and the usual line-up of mini emporia selling fresh meat and baked goods were all there along the back wall. Gondola ends were filled with good northern favourites like Batchelors Bigga marrowfat peas and boxes of snowballs.