Strength in numbers, by Joanne Simon
16 Mar 2007
After what has been described as a ‘near-perfect’ growing season, it seems that South African wine will be the first of the 2007 vintage to reach Europe. What’s more, the crop appears to be 0.5% lower than in 2006 – smaller...

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An inspiring tale of the American Dream
16 Mar 2007
E&J?Gallo Wine Company Ernest and Julio were instrumental in introducing US consumers to wine and creating the modern American wine market. Ernest was among the pioneers of wine advertising on television, and he launched many memorable wine advertising campaigns. ...

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Mutual benefit, by Nicolas Belfrage MW and Franco Ziliani
08 Mar 2007
Many years ago the Italian Trade Commission, fondly known as ICE (EE-chay), came up with a great idea. In conjunction with several of the major wine-producing regions, they would sponsor a series of week-long trips on the part of (relatively youthful)...

View issue Harpers, 9 March 2007

A decent proposal, by Jeremy Beadles
01 Mar 2007
As I was writing this column, I received confirmation that the Chancellor will make his Budget speech to the House of Commons on 21 March 2007 at 12.30pm. This is always a tense time of year for the industry as we...

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Reversal of fortune, by Max Allen
01 Mar 2007
Recently I have been a bit obsessed with biodynamics, mainly because I’m in the process of establishing a website about biodynamic wine in Australia. As in the rest of the world, biodynamics is really taking off here, with some very high-profile...

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Degrees of success by Jo Burzynska
15 Feb 2007
As New Zealand shivered through what has been for many the coldest December on record, global warming felt an ice age away. The world may be heating up, but one of the most conspicuous climate changes in this country has been...

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Second coming, by Malcolm Gluck
08 Feb 2007
The Champagne houses excoriated in my last column got their revenge in the most exquisite way. (It was, by the by, a column that excited a good deal of interest from the wine trade, many of whose members personally went out...

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Short of perfection, by Neil Beckett
01 Feb 2007
So deserved is talk of Burgundy’s Golden Age that one almost feels as if the famous figures from its first great flowering – the four Valois dukes, Philip the Bold and his successors, and even the Lady and the Unicorn –...

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Label blindness, by Jeremy Beadles
01 Feb 2007
This year one of the top issues on the drinks industry agenda looks likely to be the proliferation of different health warning labels from around Europe. ...

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Paul White replys to the AWRI
26 Jan 2007
Before getting into a detailed discussion of the issues at hand, I’d like to address AWRI’s complaint that Harper’s and Scientifically Speaking have not rigidly followed academic scientific standards. Harper’s is obviously not a peer reviewed scientific journal. It’s a magazine...

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