Producers - Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Remember Super-Tuscans?

Published: 18 January, 2007

It was only yesterday, it seems, that Super-Tuscans were flying high, write Nicolas Belfrage MW and Franco Ziliani. They were the rebel wines, the ones that broke the rules and whirled Tuscany into the vinous stratosphere of the planet, notching up pundit points higher than all but the best Burgundies and commanding prices that would not have made a second-growth claret producer blush. They were the breath of fresh air in the musty dankness of Tuscan tradition.

The City

Published: 18 January, 2007

A billionaire Belgian who built his family's scrap metal business into an empire encompassing the media, utilities and oil has set the world's private equity groups and drinks businesses scurrying for their calculators.

A glass best served cold

Published: 18 January, 2007

It's high summer in California, which means coastal fog moves inland sometime after midnight and hangs around in canyons and along rivers until past noon.

Crisis control

Published: 18 January, 2007

As the crisis' in Italian wine sales deepens, the number of ideas about what should be done continues to grow.

Click Wine Group lists new Malbec

Published: 30 November, 1999

New from Click Wine Group, High Note is a classic Argentinean Malbec, smooth and velvety, distinctive and modern, from the Uco Valley in Mendoza, the location of the world's finest Malbec vineyards.