The big slow down
23 Sep 2005
The Slow Food movement, an international non-profit association founded as a response to the ‘standardising’ effects of fast food and the frenetic pace of the ‘fast life’, has been far from slow in spreading its doctrine. In less than 20 years,...

View issue Harpers, 23 September 2005

Is the UK wine market still the best in the world?
16 Sep 2005
It was once a truism that even the most ardently Anglophobic producer would not have disputed: though it was never going to lead the world in terms of production, the UK was the most dynamic, most diverse and most influential wine...

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Touring the terra rossa
14 Sep 2005
Coonawarra’s potential as a great wine region was first recognised during the Gold Rush by Scotsman John Riddoch, but it was Samuel Wynn’s investment in 1951 that started the ball rolling towards the international recognition that Coonawarra enjoys today. ...

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Argentina: who’s crying now?
09 Sep 2005
Wines of Argentina Annual Trade Tasting Date: Tuesday 20 September 2005 Venue: Nursery Pavilion, Lord’s Cricket Ground, London NW8 Time: 10am–5.30pm The Wines of Argentina Annual Trade Tasting will take place on Tuesday 20 September at the Nursery Pavilion, Lord’s Cricket...

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Across the Andes: Colchagua and Mendoza
09 Sep 2005
On a balmy evening last March, at the tail end of the Chilean summer, a group of local vineyard workers from the Colchagua Valley gathered on the terrace of François and Jacques Lurton’s house in Lolol to enact a song-and-dance dramatisation...

View issue Harpers, 9 September 2005

Hungary like the wolf
02 Sep 2005
Hungary is the most significant producer of wine among both new EU states and the next-round hopefuls, Bulgaria and Romania. Even though the country has only 87,000 hectares (ha) of vineyards, compared to just under 90,000ha of Vitis vinifera in Romania...

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Go West
02 Sep 2005
The 2005 Napa Valley Vintners tour rolls into London next week. Stuart Peskett profiles the headline acts ...

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M-erlot C-abernet C-armenère
25 Aug 2005
Wines of Chile Annual Trade Tasting Lord’s Cricket Ground London NW8 Tuesday 13 September 10.30am–5pm ...

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Harpers Alcohol Survey
10 Aug 2005
To do this we need your help. Harpers is offering two free subscriptions, worth £145 each, to UK readers, selected at random, who answer the following questionnaire. Pull out these centre pages, fill in the blanks and return them to: Trade...

View issue 12 August 2005

Message of a bottle
10 Aug 2005
Do you know how glass is made? Sorry? Yes, it’s got sand in it. Anything else? No? A straw poll among the Harpers team certainly showed up our manufacturing ignorance, but many people seem to take for granted the vessel that...

View issue 12 August 2005