Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Symington named Douro Personality of the Year

Published: 26 July, 2013

The Portuguese Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, presented Paul Symington the Douro Personality of the Year award at a ceremony earlier this week.

Croft Pink creates cocktail range to help promote new website

Published: 26 July, 2013

Croft Pink has launched a new website, croftpink.com, to try and further show consumers how Port can be drunk on different occasions and how well Croft Pink is suitable for cocktails.

Industry welcomes lower underage drinking figures

Published: 26 July, 2013

The drinks industry has largely welcomed the latest round of official figures that show a continued downward trend in the numbers of young people drinking in the UK.

Ceviche to open pop-up restaurant at Heathrow

Published: 26 July, 2013

Martin Morales of Peruvian restaurant Ceviche and Virgin Atlantic are joining forces to open the airline's first ever...

Bobby Chinn to bring Vietnamese cuisine to Soho

Published: 26 July, 2013

Bobby Chinn will bring his acclaimed Vietnamese cuisine to London's Soho this autumn as he opens House of...

Glenn Caton to quit Laithwaite's to join Cadbury's owner Mondel?z

Published: 24 July, 2013

Glenn Caton is to leave his postion as managing director of Laithwaite's Wine to join Mondel?z, owner of confectionery giant Cadbury's.

Wines of South Africa starts recruitment drive for new chief

Published: 22 July, 2013

Wines of South Africa is formally advertising for a new chief executive to replace Su Birch (pictured) who stands down following the Beautiful South tasting in September.

Make your nominations in Harpers Spanish Wine Awards

Published: 22 July, 2013

Harpers is looking to recognise the best retailers, on-trade operators and wholesalers involved in selling and promoting Spanish wine in the UK in the first Spanish Wine Awards.

Premium brands on top, finds First Drinks Market Report

Published: 19 July, 2013

Premium drinks brands are outperforming the rest of the sector, according to the third Market Report published by First Drinks.

Raymond Blanc blown away by English wines

Published: 19 July, 2013

Michelin-starred French chef, Raymond Blanc, writes exclusively in this week's Harpers and harpers.co.uk about his love for English wine and how, at their best, they are now matching wine from his home country.

LWF should ban wine tasting, says Lockspeiser

Published: 19 July, 2013

The revamped London Wine Fair should consider not allowing any wine tasting at next year's show and put the emphasis 100% on how the wines look on-shelf if it is to really make next year's show at Olympia stand out as different from previous fairs.

Free thinking with Liberty Wines

Published: 19 July, 2013

Look behind the scenes at Liberty Wines and it's easy to see why it was named IWC On-trade Supplier of the Year this week. Richard Siddle looks at its award-winning offer

Premium brands on top, finds First Drinks Market Report

Published: 19 July, 2013

Premium drinks brands are outperforming the rest of the sector, according to the third Market Report published by First Drinks.

Raymond Blanc: Blanc on Blanc

Published: 19 July, 2013

Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc is world famous for his skills in the kitchen. But here, in his own words, he talks about the equal passion he has for the wine ? particularly from his adopted shores of the UK ? that he chooses to go with his award-winning food

Gavin Quinney: Ups and downs of going for Gold

Published: 19 July, 2013

If you're connected to wine in the UK, you could hardly have missed 'Wine tasting: it's junk science' in...

Bernadette Costello: Social media is vital for big brands

Published: 19 July, 2013

Three top consumer brands agreed to go under the knife for the Internet Advertising Bureau this summer...

Jerry Lockspeiser: We need to ban wine tasting at LIWF

Published: 19 July, 2013

Thank goodness. There will be no repeat of the Marie Celeste atmosphere in the hanger that is the ExCeL...

Mike Paul: Our future hangs in the balance

Published: 19 July, 2013

I've just read "Antifragile", Nassim Taleb's thought provoking sequel to "Black Swans". At one point...

Government scraps plans for minimum pricing for alcohol

Published: 18 July, 2013

The government has formally announced it is to axe proposals to introduce a minimum price for a unit of alcohol in England and Wales.

Richard Siddle: welcome to your new revamped harpers.co.uk

Published: 17 July, 2013

OK, launching a new website is perhaps not quite as big a leap of faith as jumping into space from 24.26 miles up from earth, and hopefully we are a little more assured of success than our intrepid friend, Felix Baumgartner, but it is, in our own little way, an important day in the history of Harpers Wine & Spirit.