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Cyber wine
13 Jan 2006
There I was in the kitchen, grumpy because I felt I was having to give up my precious Sunday evening to do some sort of virtual wine tasting. Being an editor, the boss, you learn the brutal art of delegating. After...
View issue Harpers 13th January 2006
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The C word
13 Jan 2006
New Year’s Day 2006 was not only a day of recovery from festive mania, it was also the first day of a whole new set of EU traceability regulations for the catering industry. Depending on individual views, these additions are either...
View issue Harpers 13th January 2006
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Promoting Pinot
13 Jan 2006
It’s like a word-association game: we link certain wine regions with particular grape varieties. For example, Sancerre suggests Sauvignon Blanc; Rioja implies Tempranillo; the Barossa Valley connotes Shiraz; Oregon means Pinot Noir. Actually, that last pair might provoke an academic response....
View issue Harpers 13th January 2006
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13 reasons to be cheerful
06 Jan 2006
When Harpers undertook its survey of the wine trade earlier this year – canvassing importers, distributors, retailers, buyers and sommeliers – an overwhelming sense of lethargy was apparent. For every response that was bullish, enthusiastic and hopeful, there were four that...
View issue Harpers 6th January 2006
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Australia: state of play
06 Jan 2006
As an objective framework to a paper that necessarily has a large degree of subjective arguments and judgements, I decided I would start with an analysis of the trophy results for the last six Sydney Royal Wine Shows (from 2000 to...
View issue Harpers 6th January 2006
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Happy anniversary
06 Jan 2006
Time and place New Zealand Annual Trade Tasting 2006 Lord’s Cricket Ground, London NW1 Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 January 10am–5pm Contact Alison Power at New Zealand Winegrowers Event info This year’s tasting will feature a selection...
View issue Harpers 6th January 2006
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The Macedonia massive
06 Jan 2006
Macedonia is a country that people aren’t quite sure about: it could be part of Greece or Turkey; it could be independent; it could be one of those confusing Balkan states. In many ways, Macedonia is all of these things, or...
View issue Harpers 6th January 2006
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forthcoming events
01 Jan 2006
8 May–19 June • Sotheby’s – Regional Wine Course Spring Term – 34 New Bond Street, London W1A 2AA. Contact Sotheby’s Wine Department on . ...
View issue Harpers 2nd June 2006
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2005 and all that
16 Dec 2005
Licensing As well as being historic, the decision to introduce 24-hour drinking was also, depending on who you spoke to, the beginning of the end of civilisation, the dawn of a continental-style drinking culture or an unnecessarily complicated botch job. Time...
View issue Harpers 16 December
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Treasure the island
16 Dec 2005
Tragedy may be too strong a word, but it is certainly a sad irony, a missed opportunity, a shame: even restaurants that proudly splash the sauce madère over the pigeon and the sauce Périgueux over the quail, even restaurants that have...
View issue Harpers 16 December
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