Atlantic potions
10 Aug 2005 As the 2005 harvest approaches, the problems for French grape growers seem to have nothing whatever to do with the state of the vines or the grapes. ... View issue 12 August 2005
When wine is not wine
02 Sep 2005 I am not alone in wondering why Champagne is seemingly immune from the French wine crisis. While other regions of France are agonising about pulling out vines, in Champagne they are... View issue 2 September 2005
Ostriches of a feather
02 Sep 2005 I just read Nicolas Belfrage MW’s and Franco Ziliani’s entertaining column (‘Ostrich Friulano’, Harpers, 8 July) on the Italians dragging their heels about deciding on an alternative name for their Tocai... View issue 2 September 2005
Spin doctors
02 Sep 2005 In last week’s editorial leader (‘Chile, spin and reverse swing’, Harpers, 26 August), who’s doing the spinning here? I agree with David Williams’s editorial that Chilean wines have taken great strides... View issue 2 September 2005
People power
02 Sep 2005 Halfway through listening to Wolf Blass’s speech towards the end of this year’s Australian Wine Marketing Conference in Adelaide last month, I realised I was witnessing a genius at work. ... View issue 2 September 2005
The City
02 Sep 2005 When it floated on the stock market in 1996, Belhaven, the Dunbar-based brewer, was valued at just £40 million. ... View issue 2 September 2005
