The price is right
27 Oct 2006
Last year, judges at the Gosset awards, a competition to find the best Champagne list in the UK, found evidence of what they described as ‘shocking, greedy pricing which does little to encourage the uninitiated to try Champagne’. ...

View issue Harpers 27 October 2006

Port – A drink for all seasons
27 Oct 2006
With Christmas just a couple of months away, restaurants can get ready for a bumper few months of Port sales. ...

View issue Harpers 27 October 2006

Profile – Jasper Morris MW
20 Oct 2006
‘Basingstoke!’ as Mad Margaret says in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore. She says it to restore herself to sanity whenever she’s about to relapse: for Jasper Morris, it’s more of a biography. He was born there and lately he’s been working there;...

View issue Harpers 13 October 2006

A compound reaction
20 Oct 2006
An article on volatile sulfur compounds in wine isn’t likely to turn many heads. In truth, it’s the sort of topic that is filed away as ‘worthy but dull’, and only ever gets read by people who are swotting up for...

View issue Harpers 20 October 2006

Drink pink
02 Oct 2006
In the summer of 2006, the barbeques were fired up and bottles of the pink stuff flew off the shelves. ...

View issue Harpers 29 September 2006

'Turning up the heat' – by Anastasia Edwards
02 Oct 2006
Although Cyrus Todiwala MBE, owner and executive chef of Café Spice Namasté in the City of London, has been a long-standing supporter of National Curry Week, which this year takes place from 22 to 28 October, he would like to set...

'Selling brand Portugal' – by Bernard Barbuk
21 Sep 2006
As far as the UK market is concerned, Portugal has always been the bridesmaid, never the bride. It has often seemed on the verge of breakthrough, but has never quite managed it. ...

View issue Harpers 22 September 2006

'Seeing red' – by Sally Easton MW
21 Sep 2006
Austria, with less than 1% of global wine production, is a hot-house of innovation and aspiration for its red wine producers. ...

View issue Harpers 22 September 2006

'Land of wine in crisis' – by Caroline Gilby
21 Sep 2006
It’s hard not to feel desperately sorry for Moldova, a country being brought to its knees by Russia’s strong-arm tactics. This small, landlocked country is Europe’s poorest, with the average wage hovering around US$70 a month. ...

View issue Harpers 22 September 2006

Growing pains
15 Sep 2006
A quick look at the statistics, and where’s the problem? In the UK off-trade, Australia has the number-one spot wrapped up, with a 24% market share by value and 21% by volume. ...

View issue Harpers 15 September 2006