Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Swedish company Vin & Spirit (V&S), owners of Absolut vodka, is the latest business to invest in the baijiu market in China, following Diageo and LVMH.

Wine travel website launched

Published: 23 July, 2008

Wine writer and educator Wink Lorch has launched a new website containing 40 guides for travelling through French wine regions, with contributions from writers such as Tom Stevenson and Rosemary George MW.

New insurance package for on-trade outlets

Published: 23 July, 2008

London-based small company insurer Brighter Business has launched a dedicated package for the hospitality industry.

Wine awards seek new talent

Published: 23 July, 2008

The prestigious Young Wine Writer annual award 2007 has been launched.

Wine lovers find their match online

Published: 23 July, 2008

Single wine lovers can find their ideal match by drinking from a new French wine range.

FDG sales up by a third

Published: 23 July, 2008

The Food & Drink Group (FDG), owners of Henry J Bean's and Jamies wine bars, said its half-year underlying pre-tax profits are up by nearly a third.

Alcohol labels to carry unit warnings

Published: 23 July, 2008

The government is to introduce voluntary alcohol unit information on alcohol bottles by 2008.

Government advises no alcohol during pregnancy

Published: 23 July, 2008

Department of Health's (DoH) new guidelines say one or two glasses of wine per week is unacceptable.

SA's national vineyard set aside for conservation

Published: 23 July, 2008

South Africa's Biodiversity and Wine Initiative (BWI) plans to put 50,000 hectares (ha) aside for conservation by the end of the decade.

Harpers launches independent merchant survey

Published: 23 July, 2008

National importers and brand owners should increasingly target the growing independent wine merchant, delegates heard at LIWSF.

Cleanskins arrive in UK

Published: 23 July, 2008

The Australian phenomena of 'cleanskin' wines has been launched in the UK.

Tesco to go green

Published: 23 July, 2008

Supermarket giant Tesco has claimed the wine trade "needed a fundamental change in thinking" as it announced major plans to reduce its carbon emissions.

Wine packaging confuses customers

Published: 23 July, 2008

A large majority of UK consumers do not know what constitutes organic, Fairtrade and bio-dynamic wines, according to Wine Intelligence (WI) research in association with Harpers.