Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

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

Joe Fattorini on cues and discounts

Published: 09 January, 2020

JOE FATTORINI

Greek winery expands in London on-trade

Published: 08 January, 2020

Greek winery T-Oinos is celebrating new listings at a range of top restaurants in London.

The Alchemist

Published: 20 December, 2019

The Alchemist

Ask A Somm: Maxim Kassir, 108 Brasserie, Marylebone

Published: 12 December, 2019

As well as working as a sommelier at the 108 Brasserie in The Marylebone Hotel, London, Maxim Kassir also oversees wine innovation for the site and its parent group The Doyle Collection. Here he shares his thoughts on low and no alcohol wine and how the on-trade can be more sustainable.

Sales up at Drake & Morgan

Published: 10 December, 2019

Turnover at London-based bar-and-restaurant group Drake & Morgan rose 12% in the year to end of March 2019, according to its latest financial results released yesterday.