The City: Bankers abuzz with bonus banter
24 Oct 2005
The talk in the Square Mile is of bumper bonuses for bankers, based on the boom in mergers-and-acquisitions business. There have been several notable deals already this year, not least the...

View issue Harpers, 21 October

Pointing the way
24 Oct 2005
A few weeks ago, a new whisky called The Spice Tree slipped quietly on to the market. It is the latest offering from John Glaser’s Compass Box in London. With total...

View issue Harpers, 21 October

Letters: Generalisations don’t work
31 Oct 2005
I am writing to address some of the inaccuracies contained in your news article ‘Italian grape prices collapse’ (Harpers, 14 October, p.3). The fall in grape prices is not ‘unifying’, as...

View issue Harpers, 28 October

Letters: French Wine fair play
31 Oct 2005
I would be surprised if I was the only one who attended the French Wine Awards evening who had no inkling that three of the six gongs meted out to the...

View issue Harpers, 28 October

Letters: How great wine is made
31 Oct 2005
This year, as in every other since I retired from the wine trade, I summered in the Mâcon, surely the most delightful of all of France’s myriad wine regions. At the...

View issue Harpers, 28 October

The City: Diageo declines Montana option
31 Oct 2005
‘You will hear the cheer from Paris in London.’ So said Pernod Ricard’s joint MD Richard Burrows only a month ago on the possibility of Diageo not taking up an option...

View issue Harpers, 28 October

Focus on-trade: Rounding up
31 Oct 2005
LONDON CAPITAL GAINS MEATY TREAT Roast, Floral Hall, Stoney St, Borough Market, SE1 1TL Get ready for Roast, a brand-new 100+ seat restaurant in London’s Borough Market. The market is already...

View issue Harpers, 28 October

Focus on-trade: The Analyst
31 Oct 2005
John Hoskins MW is the MW student’s MW, thanks to his ability as a communicator and taster. The admonishment is less stinging, and the encouragement more uplifting, because of his evident...

View issue Harpers, 28 October

Gluck comes under fire
07 Nov 2005
Is Malcolm Gluck totally off his proverbial rocker? Once I had stopped shaking with hysterical laughter after reading his article in Harpers (21 October), I just had to comment on what...

View issue Harpers 4 November

The City: Smart investors take AIM
07 Nov 2005
Investors are becoming increasingly attracted to London’s Alternative Investment Market, the exchange that many fledgling companies use to make their initial offering of shares to the public. The costs of doing...

View issue Harpers 4 November