Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Accolade turns spotlight on Kumala with biggest investment in 10 years

Published: 13 August, 2018

Accolade Wines has turned the spotlight on its South African Kumala wine brand with a £1 million campaign.

Vagabond set sights on expansion as it secures £3.5m investment

Published: 12 August, 2018

Vagabond has secured a £3.5 million investment from UK leisure and hospitality investor Imbiba.

Jascots adds four new green producers

Published: 09 August, 2018

Jascots is poised to add four new environmentally friendly producers to its portfolio as part of its strategy to focus on sustainability

Looking ahead: Martin Williams, M Restaurants

Published: 09 August, 2018

As the first half of 2018 draws to a close, Harpers asked key trade figures to highlight the current challenges, on-going trends and opportunities

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.

Guy Woodward: Fake wine "good for consumers". Are you kidding?

Published: 08 August, 2018

The Times, in its increasingly sensationalist manner, splashed another of those fatuous wine stories on page three the other day. “Cloned Frankenwines fool even experts”, was the loaded, somewhat clumsy headline.

Wine set to help global alcohol consumption to reach £830bn by 2022

Published: 08 August, 2018

A relatively sunny outlook is being forecast for the global alcohol industry over the next five years, with the wine set to see the largest portion of growth.

Aldi launches orange wine

Published: 07 August, 2018

Aldi has added Cramele Recas’ natural and vegan Orange wine to its portfolio.

Fortnum & Mason adds ‘sparkling tea akin to sparkling wine' to its menu

Published: 07 August, 2018

Fortnum & Mason has unveiled a ‘sparkling tea’ range positioned as an alternative to sparkling wine.

Lanchester Wines and Adnams strike green partnership

Published: 07 August, 2018

Durham-based merchant Lanchester Wines has produced a range of wines for Suffolk-based brewer, distiller and retailer Adnams, with a focus on sustainability.

BI reports soaring sales

Published: 06 August, 2018

Fine wine and rare spirits merchant BI has reported a 6.1% hike in turnover to £51 million for the first half of 2018.

Industry urged to better market English sparkling as poll shows 85% British consumers ‘don’t have a clue’

Published: 03 August, 2018

British consumers are ‘clueless’ when it comes to English sparkling wine, a survey has revealed.

Milestone eyes Spanish and Italian wines

Published: 03 August, 2018

Milestone Wines is looking to add two further agencies to the business, its new director of agency sales has said.

Facing up to climate change

Published: 02 August, 2018

The Climate Change Leadership Porto Summit gave compelling reasons for the drinks trade to take a lead on tackling global warming, as Andrew Catchpole reports.

Head of WSET School London branches out on his own

Published: 02 August, 2018

Jim Gore, DipWSET and Principal of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) School London, has left the wine education charity to set up his own school.

Demand for wine and spirits education hits record level

Published: 02 August, 2018

Demand for wine and spirits education soared in the past year boosted by a growing thirst for spirits knowledge.

Liberty backs Spurrier and Boisset’s Indian wine collaborations

Published: 01 August, 2018

Indian wine could be the next big thing if a new collaboration between a number of industry heavyweights is anything to go by.

Andrew Higgs returns to Dreyfus Ashby

Published: 01 August, 2018

Dreyfus Ashby has announced Andrew Higgs is returning to the fold after a 12 year hiatus.

Henkell and Freixenet join forces to create world’s leading sparkling wine group

Published: 01 August, 2018

Henkell has today closed the acquisition of Freixenet creating the world’s leading sparkling wine group.

Re-emerging regions

Published: 01 August, 2018

Some of the most enjoyable games of the football World Cup so far have been match-ups featuring lesser-known nations – countries that you know play good football but are not up there with the likes of Brazil, Spain and Germany in the pantheon of soccer greatness.