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SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS
11 Sep 2002 Europeans often fall into the trap of thinking that Southern Hemisphere summers are as consistent as ours are fickle. But the 2002 vintage confounded that notion, with Australia experiencing its coldest-ever...
THE STATE OF THE FOURTH ESTATE
18 Sep 2002 Wine writers spend much of the time lobbing verbal hand grenades and garlands from the safety of their PCs. Are they making and breaking the reputations of wines, or is their...
TOP TABLE
24 Sep 2002 Renowned for its Port, the Douro Valley has been slow to make the grade as far as table wines are concerned. But, as Jamie Goode reports, a new generation of like-minded...
Over a barrel...
04 Oct 2002 Blends might take the lion’s share of the whisky market, but distillers are uneasy over their ever-decreasing margins. Does the sector’s recovery lie in price hikes, creating new, aspirational markets, or...
Coming up rosés
11 Oct 2002 Provence may be best known in wine terms for rosé, but not everyone in the ancient Var département is keen on building a profile around the infamous pink stuff. Joanne Simon...
MORE GLOSS, MORE DROSS
16 Oct 2002 Harpers’ letters bag has been bulging with responses to Andrew Jefford’s recent survey on Britain’s wine PR and press. Key signals from his initial findings and the backlash make scary reading...
ON A ROLL
23 Oct 2002 Cigars, it seems, never go out of style. But like any consumer item, they are vulnerable to trends, peaks and sales troughs. Joanne Simon speaks to the UK’s premium cigar purveyors...
BIODYNAMO
30 Oct 2002 Michel Chapoutier talks to Neil Beckett about AOC, Hermitage, biodynamics, terroir and quantum physics, while tricking him into eating huge quantities of pig fat ...
Seminar Video: Fact or Fiction: The Young Adult Market
01 Nov 2002 On 2 July, the IWSC turned its attention to the future of the industry in a seminar called ‘Reaching the Young Adult Market’. Watch video of the speakers here. ...
WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS
06 Nov 2002 Far from being geared merely towards the large-scale production of mediocre wines, Joanne Simon discovers that two Italian co-operatives are driving quality production in two very diverse regions, Trentino and the...
