Published: 07 December, 2020
Each year the entries for Harpers Design Awards deliver much to delight, with the bar raised time and again, and so it proved once more with our 2020 judging. This year delivered many exemplary category winners, along with a host of worthy gold, silver and bronze medals.
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Published: 03 December, 2020
There is mounting concern over the lack of clarity around the introduction of VI-1 forms for bulk shippers, despite the end of the transition period being just weeks away.
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Published: 03 December, 2020
The year 2020 will surely go down in history as an annus horribilis. With an end game to the coronavirus in sight however – and a vaccine looming on the 2021 horizon – Harpers is choosing to take the optimistic view that things can only get better from here.
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Published: 02 December, 2020
On-trade supplier Jascots Wine Merchants has gone into administration, Harpers has learned.
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Published: 02 December, 2020
Sussex-based sparkling wine producer Digby Fine English has been appointed as the official supplier of English sparkling wine to the House of Commons gift shops.
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Published: 02 December, 2020
A group of over 200 MPs and other legislators from 19 countries have launched a campaign against China’s swingeing new tariffs on Australian wine.
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Published: 02 December, 2020
Hatch Mansfield and 31Dover has entered into a partnership to distribute premium family owned wine producers from around the world.
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Published: 02 December, 2020
Former WSET UK business development director Graham Cox is set to join West London Wine School (WLWS) as its new chief steward.
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Published: 30 November, 2020
Two former directors of PLB have teamed up again to launch a new wine export agency.
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Published: 30 November, 2020
Sales of alcohol through ecommerce are set to increase by 42% this year to reach US$24bn across 10 core markets, according to new research from IWSR Drinks Market Analysis.
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Published: 30 November, 2020
China has imposed taxes of up to 212% on imports of Australian wine.
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Published: 30 November, 2020
Accolade Wines has named Natalie Cleghorn as senior winemaker and manager for Coonawarra’s premium Katnook Estate.
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Published: 30 November, 2020
Spain deserves better recognition as a leader in organic and sustainable viticulture and its time may well have come, writes Andrew Catchpole.
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Published: 26 November, 2020
A global framework used by other sectors like palm oil, mining, textiles and even golfing is needed to build best practice for the wine industry, some of the world’s leading experts in environmental management have said.
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Published: 26 November, 2020
International demand for New Zealand wine has surged over the past decade, with total export value now reaching a record-breaking NZ$2 billion in 2020.
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Published: 26 November, 2020
While most areas of the trade experience decline, Spain still has the odd reason to be cheerful in buoyant UK exports and ever-robust Rioja. James Lawrence reports
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Published: 25 November, 2020
Liv-ex is predicting that the number of ‘steps’ involved in transferring wine between the UK and the EU will more than double post-January, with associated costs forecasted to rise exponentially.
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Published: 24 November, 2020
A South Australian program has been launched to help open up access to markets in Japan, Malaysia, South Korea and India in the wake of continued uncertainty around shipments to China.
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Published: 23 November, 2020
Producers of Beaujolais Nouveau have been left with no choice but to turn part of their crop into pure alcohol, it has been reported, after exports of wine from the region fell during the first nine months of the year.
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Published: 23 November, 2020
The most popular supermarket wine in the UK is 19 Crimes Red, according to a survey of 4,500 wine lovers.
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