Champagne and Sparkling - Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Cava ramps up Christmas campaign

Published: 03 October, 2019

Cava is to target key markets UK and Belgium in the Christmas run up with a new initiative designed to raise awareness of its premium wines.

Climate change hits Champagne harvest

Published: 27 September, 2019

Global warming cost Champagne over 10% of its potential harvest this year, the Champagne Bureau has revealed.

Pre-Christmas campaign for Cava

Published: 18 September, 2019

Cava is to get a big promotional push in the run up to Christmas, its regulatory body has announced.

Q&A: Simon Robinson, chairman, Wine GB

Published: 17 September, 2019

Following the excellent 2018 vintage and a ramping up of exports, English and Welsh wine has come of age. Andrew Catchpole asks what’s next for the burgeoning domestic scene

UK release for Champagne Armand de Brignac’s rarest cuvée

Published: 11 September, 2019

Champagne Armand de Brignac has announced the UK arrival of its Blanc de Noirs Assemblage Three (A3) - the third assemblage of its ultra-prestige cuvée.

Prestige Champagne fizzes as sub-£20 falls

Published: 29 August, 2019

Research has shown that Champagne is experiencing continued uplift at the premium end of the spectrum, with brands leading the category to a higher average price per bottle.

English sparkling encouraged to tap into “moderation, local, and craft” as sales dip

Published: 28 August, 2019

A new report has suggested that English sparkling wine ticks all the right boxes to help reverse something of a slump in sales of sparkling wine over the past year – the first time this has happened in a decade.

Guy Woodward: is using Champagne as a mixer a sin?

Published: 08 August, 2019

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The rise of ultra-prestige Champagne

Published: 05 August, 2019

Champagne houses are separating out prestige cuvées from the struggling lower end. James Lawrence reports

New Generation creates sales & marketing director position

Published: 30 July, 2019

New Generation Wines has appointed James McKenna to the newly created position of sales & marketing director.

Producers optimistic of 2021 ‘launch’ for rosé Prosecco

Published: 26 July, 2019

When it comes to global wine trends Prosecco and rosé are both at the business end of the list, so when news from the Prosecco DOC Consortium began to filter through about a new rosé category for the famous Italian fizz the trade and customers alike got very excited.

Q&A: Jan Konetzki, director of wine, Ten Trinity Square

Published: 18 July, 2019

Lisa Riley meets the sommelier who has been Chatéau Latour and Artemis Domaines’ ambassador since 2016

Chapel Down Group appoints new sales director

Published: 17 July, 2019

Chapel Down Group has recruited a former retail channel controller at Treasury Wine Estates as its new sales director.

Boisset research identifies ‘big opportunity’ for Crémant in UK

Published: 17 July, 2019

Crémant is ideally placed to bridge the gulf between Prosecco and premium priced English sparkling wine and Champagne, offering mid-market value to continue to drive the growth of sparkling wine in the UK.

Anjou investors chase drier styles as sweet sales dwindle

Published: 16 July, 2019

The renaissance of dry Chenin wines, together with dwindling sales of sweet wines, have driven investors in Quarts-de–Chaumes – the Loire’s only Grand Cru appellation – to switch production from sweet to dry wines.