Latest product news from 26 January issue
25 Jan 2007 Concha y Toro's Chilean label Casillero del Diablo will launch a blend on the UK market in the next few weeks. The Riserva Privada, aged in oak barrels for 14 months, is a cool-climate blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon from the... La Fée has released its X•S (Extra Supérieur) collection – two new wine-based absinthes based on original 19th-century recipes. The clear X•S Suisse, made in Couvet in the Val-de-Travers, where absinthe production began in 1792, uses locally grown wormwood and wine... The Real Rosé Company – the first global rosé brand – has been launched by UK agency HwCg. The range of eight dry wines from France, Chile, Australia, South Africa and Italy will comprise two quality levels: £4.99 for blends and... Following the success of its Chenin/Chardonnay blend, South African wine brand Arniston Bay has introduced a 2006 Sauvignon/Semillon. The Company of Wine People Europe Ltd says the extension caters to the trend of consumers moving away from Chardonnay to more herbaceous... An unoaked 2005 Shiraz from Chilean producer Anakena is the latest wine to hit the shelves in the Co-op. Made from hand-picked fruit from vineyards in Cachapoal and Ninquén in Colchagua, the Shiraz joins the winery's 2006 Chardonnay/Viognier blend, which is... View issue Harpers, 26 January 2007
Book Reviews
12 Dec 2006 By Matt Skinner; £7.99, Mitchell Beazley The Juice 2007 recommends 100 wines from £4.99 to £400, with a tasting note and a slick bottle shot for each. It also provides a stockist list and a clear index with their contact details.... By Ben Reed; £9.99, Ryland Peters and Small This is a hardback coffee-table book with more than 60 cocktail recipes. It includes information on the basics – from the equipment to get started and tips on stirring and shaking. The photography... By Philip Williamson & David Moore; £27.50, Williamson Moore Publishing First published in 2003, this weighty tome is a pretty comprehensive guide to the major wine producers of the world. Organised by country and then by region, the book rates each... By James Halliday; £30, Mitchell Beazley Halliday has written a comprehensive update to this guide to Australia, eight years since the last edition was published. He touches on climate change, regionality and irrigation before diving into a 300-page guide covering every... By Ulf Buxrud; £30, Quiller Press Buxrud chronicles the history of the 36 distilleries involved in the Rare Malt Series, of which there will be no more releases. It informs the reader how malt whisky is made, assuming no prior knowledge... View issue harpers 15 December 2006
Christmas product news from 8 December issue
07 Dec 2006 Harvey yourself a merry Christmas Harveys festive triple pack contains 10cl bottles of Bristol Cream, Pale Cream and Amontillado, and retails at £6.99. Cockburn’s is offering a Christmas twin pack, containing a Cockburn’s Special Reserve and LBV, each 37.5cl. It has... View issue Harpers, 8 December 2006
Latest product news from 24 November issue
23 Nov 2006 Bollinger has released its latest prestige cuvée – La Grande Année 1999. The wine underwent 100% oak cask fermentation before spending six years ageing in bottle in Aÿ. It comes in a gift box and is set to retail at £60.... Pusser’s 15-year-old Navy rum will be released in the UK by Cellar Trends. Distillation takes place in a traditional wooden pot still and it matures in wood for 15 years. It is bottled at 40% ABV and has an RRP of... Epernay-based Champagne de Venoge released its 1995 prestige cuvée ‘Louis XV’ this week after 10 years’ maturation in bottle. It is a blend of 50% Pinot Noir and 50% Chardonnay and comes in a clear glass bottle which can be kept... Whisky producer Grant’s has linked up with Classic FM as part of its Christmas campaign. As well as on-air and on-line advertising, the festive edition of Classic FM’s Magazine will include a free CD with a Grant’s cover mount. With one-third... Glengoyne distillery, based near Glasgow, has launched a new range of single-cask whiskies chosen by the company’s mashmen. This follows last year’s launch of the Stillmen range. Commercial manager, Stuart Hendry said: ‘There is definitely a bit of friendly rivalry between... Port company Smith Woodhouse, owned by the Symington Family, has launched a new range of Ports aimed at independent and specialist wine merchants. The range has new label design based on tasting room labels used by the company in the 1930s... Only one month after vintage, the cooperative Cavit has released the 2006 vintage of the Terrazze della Luna IGT Novello. ‘Novello is often considered as a moderate-quality wine because of its youth,’ says Cavit’s Claudio Gambarotto, ‘but with careful selection of... View issue Harpers 24 November 2006
Latest product news from 17 November 2006 issue
17 Nov 2006 Scotch whisky producer Highland Park has just launched a 1967 Single Cask expression. What is different about this launch is that it will be a split bottling: half of the cask has already been bottled, while the remainder will be bottled... Liberty Wines has a new trio of Australian wines from the McLaren Vale. Willunga 100 was created to 'inject some quality and excitement back into Australian wine' at the £7.99 price point. The range, all from 2005, comprises a Shiraz/Viognier, a... Warren Edwardes, the man behind the Wine for Spice range, is to add an Italian red sparkler to the current line-up. The new wine will be semi-sparkling, in keeping with the range, which is designed to be drunk with spicy food.... View issue Harpers 17 November 2006
