Carson’s WSET lecture ‘offered nothing new’
28 Nov 2006
Reading in the latest Harpers, Christopher Carson’s ‘stern message’ delivered at the 12th Wine & Spirit EducatioTrust’s annual lecture, I fail to understand why you claim him to have ‘really socked it to us’ or why his talk ‘gave the audience...

View issue Harpers, 1 December 2006

The Analyst
23 Nov 2006
A good test of any expanding restaurant group is how different each venue manages to be. Is the latest member a clone, produced according to the same tried-and-tested formula, or does it offer something different? The consensus regarding Maze, Gordon Ramsay’s...

View issue Harpers 24 November 2006

Award brings recognition
17 Nov 2006
May I congratulate Rebecca Gibb on being awarded ‘Young Wine Writer of the Year’ (Harpers, 10 November). ...

View issue Harpers 17 November 2006

Gluck, the court jester
17 Nov 2006
Once again, Malcolm Gluck has ruffled a few fine feathers. This time it is among those sensitive souls: the wine educators. The chairman of this august body – an MW, no less – ripostes with a suggestion that wine writers should...

View issue Harpers 17 November 2006

What a waste – by Nicolas Belfrage MW and Franco Ziliani
10 Nov 2006
As anyone who has ever read one of the punditries on the state of modern Italy well knows, one of the great blights on that fair land is bureaucracy. ...

View issue Harpers 10 November 2006

Wines in the Weekly Press
03 Nov 2006
The Independent on Sunday RICHARD EHRLICH bows out of his column this week after 10 years. The growth of the internet has been one of the biggest influences on the drinks trade during that time, he says, and ‘of the recent...

View issue Harpers 3 November 2006

Judgment days by Neil Beckett, reporting on fine wine
03 Nov 2006
Are angels male or female? Should wines be tasted blind or open? ...

View issue Harpers 3 November 2006

A taxing question by Jeremy Beadles of the WSTA
03 Nov 2006
To use football parlance – it was a game of two halves last week. ...

View issue Harpers 3 November 2006

Know your Cantenac-Browns from your Brane-Cantenacs
03 Nov 2006
Stuart George owes me a bottle of the £7.99 Chilean Cabernet he promised to buy me (Harpers, 27 October) if I can identify the author of an Elizabethan sonnet. ...

View issue Harpers 3 November 2006

Perhaps wine writers should pass exams, too
03 Nov 2006
Having recently returned from a long educational trip to the wine regions of New Zealand, I have only just seen Malcolm Gluck’s comments in his article ‘The write stuff’ (Harpers, 13 October). ...

View issue Harpers 3 November 2006