Taking the next step
18 Jan 2007 With the annual trade tastings approaching, we gathered the key UK players in the Australian wine industry to discuss where the category is going ... View issue Harpers, 19 January 2007
Innovative Oz
18 Jan 2007 WHERE: Lawrence Hall, Royal Horticultural Halls, London SW1 WHEN: Wednesday, 31 January 2007 from 10am-4.30pm and Thursday, 1 February 2007 from 9.30am-5pm CONTACT: Melissa Worthington at Wine Australia on ... View issue Harpers, 19 January 2007
Renewed zeal
17 Jan 2007 WHERE: Lord’s Cricket Ground, St John’s Wood, London NW1 WHEN: Monday, 15 January 2007 from 11am-5pm and Tuesday, 16 January 2007 from 10am-5pm CONTACT: Alison Power at New Zealand Winegrowers on ... View issue Harpers, 12 January 2007
Full speed ahead
17 Jan 2007 In the UK wine market, where suppliers have been lashed by flat sales – and some countries have started to sink, New Zealand continues to ride a wave of success. But sea changes are already underway for 2007, as the States... View issue Harpers, 12 January 2007
Height of fame
17 Jan 2007 Grapes grown at altitude taste different. As you go higher, temperatures drop and the fruit is exposed to more ultraviolet (UV) light. Higher UV leads to higher levels of anthocyanins (and therefore darker-coloured wines) as well as enhanced production of protective... View issue Harpers, 12 January 2007
Gris overtakes Riesling
14 Dec 2006 Jo Burzynska reporting from New Zealand As one of the many Riesling lovers vainly holding out for the variety’s long-prophesied but never-nigh renaissance, my heart sank a little with the news that plantings of the Germanic great had been overtaken by... View issue harpers 15 December 2006
New year, new show
07 Dec 2006 What does 2007 hold in store for the on-trade? The launch of Wine+, which takes place on 17 and 18 January at Olympia, will provide the first opportunity of the year for those in the industry to meet and discuss what... Wine+ will be a launch pad for an array of new wines, products and initiatives. Here we present a taste of what you can look forward to seeing at the show. Sherlock Wines Independent wine importer Sherlock Wines will be showcasing... View issue Harpers, 8 December 2006
Sweet & sour
07 Dec 2006 ‘Say no to oak – help put the fruit back in wine.’ This sign, posted up behind the tasting bar at Trimbach, is a neat summation of the charms of Alsace. Wines with great poise, a good structure of acidity and,... View issue Harpers, 8 December 2006
Super Seconds
30 Nov 2006 British wine consumption came off the boil this year, according to reports in both trade and consumer press back in May. But American wine exports certainly don’t seem to have cooled off. Off-premise numbers from ACNielsen for the 12 months ending... ne example was the small but very busy stand which promoted Oregon wine at the London International Wine & Spirits Fair this past May. Staff from the Oregon Wine Board and individual wineries such as Firesteed and Elk Cove poured 20... View issue Harpers, 1 December 2006
My sweet love
30 Nov 2006 The most baffling thing about Sauternes is how its producers survive. It’s not just the unpredictability of Botrytis cinerea; in 2004 the yield at Château Climens was less than four hectolitres per hectare (4hl/ha). At Château Suduiraut in the same year... View issue Harpers, 1 December 2006
