Erin Smith meets Ross Carter and Will Broadfoot, the brains behind the London Wine Fair, to discover what this year's remodelled event has in store
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News that David Beckham is to put his name to a new whisky is just the latest in a series of celebrity drink endorsements. But, Richard Foster asks, do such link-ups guarantee good sales?
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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.
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Erin Smith looks at how Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have coped with poor exchange rates
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Bruce Perry is in good spirits as he talks frankly to Douglas Blyde about Cognac's place in the spirits market
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Tucked into one of the stall shops found on the Ropewalk as part of the Maltby Street Market in London, is Bar Tozino, a hidden gem that has quietly found a following - especially for those who love great tapas and sherry.
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A look back at last month's Specialist Importers Trade Tastings
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The pair from Sud de France talk to Richard Siddle about how it hopes to use its Top 100 programme to highlight the very best wines from the Languedoc-Roussillon
Read more...Treasury Wine Estates is one of a number of major wine companies looking to build sales in the independent sector. Its fine wine team joined the latest Independent Wine Crew meeting to set out its strategy and find out how it can better serve the sector. Richard Siddle and Erin Smith report
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The third meeting of Harpers' Independent Wine Crew of leading multi-site wine merchants reflected a real step-change in how they are able to help each other in buying, sourcing and storing wine. Richard Siddle and Erin Smith report
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Guillaume Deglise has big shoes to fill in replacing Robert Beynat as chief executive of Vinexpo. Here he tells Richard Siddle how he intends to create a very different type of show - based largely on the customer and branding lessons learnt from his career in Champagne
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Here's an interesting exercise for you. Why not count up all of the different ways in which you have done business in the past week. If your list is anything like mine then it would stretch from: the tried-and-tested face-to-face pre-organised appointment; the good ol' business lunch; a chance meeting on an easyJet flight; a late-night drink in a Montpellier bar; a direct message on Twitter; a very old-fashioned telephone call; right through to a bog-standard message via email.
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Harpers caught up with the head sommelier of Michelin-starred Launceston Place
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"What are you, a girl? Is this girls' night out?" That's what a friend, an investment banker, shouted at me, on a steamy summer night a couple of years back, when the waitress brought my cool, refreshing glass of Corte Gardoni Bardolino Chiaretto. I didn't flinch. As an American male who happens to enjoy drinking rosé, I'd heard worse. He continued: "Seriously, dude. Blush wine?"
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UK consumers are just discovering that Spain's wine regions offer as much diversity, quality and value as its tapas. Andrew Catchpole reports
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James Lawrence looks at the bigger picture when it comes to the Chinese wine market
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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
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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.
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The third meeting of Harpers' Independent Wine Crew of leading multi-site wine merchants reflected a real step-change in how they are able to help each other in buying, sourcing and storing wine. Richard Siddle and Erin Smith report
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The UK is just discovering that Spain's wine regions offer as much diversity, quality and value as its tapas. Andrew Catchpole reports
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