Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

London Cocktail Week readies for 2020

Published: 22 July, 2020

London Cocktail Week, the world’s biggest city-wide cocktail festival, will go ahead this year, its organisers have announced.

Wines from Spain London tasting postponed again

Published: 09 July, 2020

London’s annual Wines from Spain trade tasting has been pushed back once again, with its revised September date now pulled in the face of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.

TWE partners with Deliveroo to launch Wolf Blass sampling campaign

Published: 04 June, 2020

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has joined forces with Deliveroo to launch a Wolf Blass sampling campaign.

Sturges steps down from Jeroboams

Published: 02 June, 2020

London wine merchant Jeroboams is to have a new chief executive, with encumbent Hugh Sturges leaving the role at the end of June.

Joe Fattorini: The power of ‘no’

Published: 27 March, 2020

Joe Fattorini, head of London sales at Fields, Morris & Verdin

LWF postpones 2020 event

Published: 20 March, 2020

London Wine Fair (LWF) has become the latest major wine event to be postponed due to coronavirus (Covid-19).

The Grill at The Dorchester

Published: 20 March, 2020

53 Park Lane, Mayfair, London W1K 1QA

M Restaurants adopt social distancing plan

Published: 19 March, 2020

In response to falling footfall and social distancing, London’s M Restaurants has introduced a series of measures to help mitigate the downturn.

Tiffany Blue Box Café

Published: 17 March, 2020

Harrods, 87-135 Brompton Road, London SW1X 7XL

Michel Roux Snr passes away

Published: 13 March, 2020

Legendary chef Michel Roux Sr OBE, who set a new bar for British gastronomy through his restaurants Le Gavroche and the Waterside Inn and inspired a generation of chefs, has passed away.

Mid-week on-trade spend in major Northern cities booms

Published: 12 March, 2020

Northern cities have started to shed their ‘weekend party image’ with ‘seven day socialising’ taking hold, according to new research.

Joe Fattorini: Do your bottles shame you?

Published: 05 March, 2020

Joe Fattorini

UK winner of Bacardí cocktail competition revealed

Published: 21 February, 2020

Scottish bartender Nicole Sykes won the Bacardí Legacy Cocktail Competition at an event in London last night.

Bar Douro City

Published: 21 February, 2020

BAR DOURO CITY

The Whisky Exchange

Published: 18 February, 2020

THE WHISKY EXCHANGE

Joe Fattorini: A bump in the road

Published: 10 February, 2020

Head of London sales at Fields, Morris & Verdin

Q&A: Christopher Lecoufle, Les 110 de Taillevent

Published: 21 January, 2020

Andrew Catchpole shares a glass or two with one of London’s youngest rising stars, Christopher Lecoufle, GM and head sommelier at Les 110 de Taillevent, London