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...

View issue Harpers, 16 February 2007

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...

View issue Harpers, 9 February 2007

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 –...

View issue Harpers, 2 February 2007

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. ...

View issue Harpers, 2 February 2007

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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Wine Relief approaching
25 Jan 2007
May I remind everyone in and around the wine trade that we are fast approaching Wine Relief time, and ask as many individuals as possible to think about how they can contribute. ...

View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007

Tastings panel
18 Jan 2007
2002 Buckingham Estate Cabernet–Shiraz, Barossa £8.99, Morrisons This big burly Australian Cab/Shiraz blend is saved by a healthy whack of pure fruit acidity which adds up to a very balanced wine. Black cherry dominates an earthy and spicy nose, and then...

View issue Harpers, 19 January 2007

Clarifying our research
18 Jan 2007
While gratifying to note recognition by Dr Caroline Ritchie of the quantitative research conducted by Wine Intelligence (‘Consumers still poorly defined’, Harpers, January 12), several points deserve clarification. ...

View issue Harpers, 19 January 2007

Trying to abate the bite
18 Jan 2007
Far from celebrating on New Year’s Eve, the South African wine industry was drowning its sorrows – probably on a lot of unsold stock – after seeing wine export volumes fall for the first time in 12 years in 2006. ...

View issue Harpers, 19 January 2007

Harpers Leader: Spotlight down under
18 Jan 2007
This time of year is dominated by Down Under – New Zealand this week and Australia the week after next. ...

View issue Harpers, 19 January 2007