With wine tourism exploding in key areas around the world, wineries are realising the financial, branding, and marketing importance of creating a "unique experience" to attract visitors in the face of growing competition.
Read more...James Lawrence looks at the bigger picture when it comes to the Chinese wine market
Read more...Helen Stares, client business partner at Nielsen, takes a look at premiumisation across the drinks trade last Christmas and how the solid growth was at the top end
Read more...With an abundance of sites encouraging online reviews, wine consumers are listening to each other when it comes to shopping on the web. Gemma McKenna reports.
Read more...With stronger harvests around the world in 2013 and 2014, more established markets look likely to make a comeback in the entry level bulk wines market.
Read more...No one has officially sipped a single glass of the 2013 Bordeaux en primeur campaign and it is already one of the most controversial vintages in living memory. Gemma McKenna explains why
Read more...Erin Smith assesses the currency map as the pound continues to gain ground
Read more...Without ever having really gone away, French wine is making a huge comeback. Where did it all go right? Andrew Catchpole investigates
Read more...It might not be top of the charts when it comes to sales, but there are few wine countries with as much untapped potential as Portgual. Richard Woodard reports
Read more...Opening a business bank account should be quite easy. However, banks seem to deliberately muddy the waters so as to make choosing harder than it really should be.
Read more...The UK remains central to New Zealand's wine-export strategy as it looks to widen its appeal across all channels of the market. Ahead of this month's generic UK tasting, Anne Krebiehl looks at its opportunities in 2014
Read more...To stop losing sales to the internet, high-street outlets must become destinations, offering as much theatre as wine, reports Glynn Davis
Read more...Despite a difficult few years, Australia's winegrowers have been finding more and more reasons to be cheerful - even before the Ashes.
Read more...How major wine companies develop their brands is pivotal to the future of the industry, November's Wine Vision conference was told.
Read more...Wine critic Natasha Hughes assesses the merits of Lebanese wine and looks at the potential opportunities it has in the UK market
Read more...More independent wine merchants are diversifying into cafes and bars as a way of both growing revenue and generating interest in their wines.
Read more...Members of Harpers' new Independent Wine Crew are willing to put their competitive instincts to one side to find ways in which they can work together, share experiences and offer advice on how to run wine stores more effectively.
Read more...What do the world's wine leaders think of the industry's future? Gemma McKenna reports on an exclusive survey of the trade's senior figures ahead of next week's Wine Vision conference
Read more...Effective communication is vital for an industry fighting for customers. But it means using a language consumers understand, heard October's DWCC conference in Rioja. Richard Siddle and Erin Smith report.
Read more...Worldwide currency exchange rates continue to help shape the winners and losers in the global wine world and have played a key role in helping China become such a significant player.
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