‘White Grange’ to be bottled with screwcap
25 Jan 2007
Penfolds Yattarna – dubbed ‘white Grange’ – will be bottled under screwcap for the 2004 vintage, released in May. ...

View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007

Scotland wins the World Cup … of Sherry
25 Jan 2007
The chef and sommelier at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh have won the International Copa Jerez 2007. Sous chef Kevin Sutherland and sommelier James O’Donnell created a food and Sherry menu, beating teams from the US and Spain in the process....

View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007

NZ chief predicts growth slowdown
25 Jan 2007
The New Zealand wine industry’s major growth phase is over and with that will come consolidation, says the head of the country’s 1,300 grape growers and winemakers. ...

View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007

Competition Commission slams supermarkets
25 Jan 2007
The next phase of the Competition Commission’s probe into the grocery industry will focus on competition at the local level, ‘where it most matters to consumers’, the chairman, Peter Freeman, said when outlining the watchdog’s ‘preliminary thinking’. ...

View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007

Inaugural Wine+ gets thumbs-up from trade
25 Jan 2007
Wine+ organiser FreshRM is hailing the inaugural show last week a success, despite attendance levels being affected by bad weather, including high winds which disrupted road and rail travel last Thursday. ...

View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007

Oz prepares for poor 2008 harvest
25 Jan 2007
With water allocations again reduced and the 2007 grape harvest down 20% on last year, Australia’s winemakers are predicting a dire 2008 vintage. ...

View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007

Licensing Act feedback wanted
25 Jan 2007
The Government has published a consultation document on the guidance to the 2003 Licensing Act, which has been heavily criticised since its inception. ...

View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007

Chinese wines from Bibendum
25 Jan 2007
Two new Chinese wines are to be launched by Bibendum, with Austrian winemaker Lenz Moser involved in the project. ...

View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007

What’s hot, what’s not
23 Jan 2007
Come January we’re all prone to speculation about what the new year will bring. It’s not that we’re bored with our favourite wines, it’s more that – as wine lovers – we know there’s a great big world of wine out...

View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007

News analysis: Victoria is not amused
18 Jan 2007
It’s hardly something to boast about, but the state of Victoria is Australia’s phylloxera capital. ...

View issue Harpers, 19 January 2007