Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Five minutes with Arthur Ng, Vinum Eurus

Published: 27 June, 2024

Andrew Catchpole meets a boutique importer of high-quality Chinese wines which could change perception of this country’s winemaking abilities.

Q&A: Lenz Moser, Château Changyu-Moser XV

Published: 16 March, 2021

The Year of the Ox, denoting hard work, positivity and honesty, seems an apt time for the fruits of Lenz Moser’s work in China to shine. Andrew Catchpole tunes in

Friday Read: Hidden in the Shadows

Published: 28 February, 2020

The realisation first occurred in Ho Chi Minh City, after a charming waitress at 'The Garlik' restaurant produced a concise wine list. The restaurant was full of middle-class Vietnamese – and a handful of tourists – most of whom were drinking wine. I observed a similar scenario one week later, at Riedel's bar-cum-restaurant in central Bangkok. The sommelier was proselytising the virtues of white Burgundy – one of the many bottles contained in a wall-mounted enomatic machine - to a young Thai couple. I left the restaurant convinced that due to the media's powerful China obsession, the potential of these cultures to love wine was being grossly underreported.

Seppeltsfield expands Barossa holdings

Published: 13 August, 2019

Seppeltsfield Wines has acquired the Tanunda Hills vineyards in Barossa.

The rise and rise of Chinese wine

Published: 24 July, 2019

There’s been a lot written about China’s growing appetite for wine consumption (much of it from well-heeled Bordeaux estates and Burgundian domains), but the Chinese are serious about wine production too and are the world's leading grape producer, growing 11.7 million tons of fruit in 2018, equating to around 15% of global grape production.

Liberty adds Chinese winery

Published: 14 February, 2019

Liberty Wines has added Chinese winery Kanaan to its portfolio.

Universities join forces to fuel Chinese wine industry

Published: 09 August, 2018

The University of Adelaide and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University have joined forces to launch a dual masters degree in winemaking and viticulture to help fuel China’s wine industry.