The Interview: Pete Gottgens
07 Oct 2005
What is a South African doing with a hotel and restaurant on the shores of Loch Tay? Enjoying it! I opened four restaurants in London over a period of 10 years,...

View issue Harpers, 7 October 2005

The City: Fighting talk from Constellation
13 Oct 2005
If further confirmation were needed about how tough wine retailing is in the UK, it has come from the world’s largest producer, Constellation Brands. In a recent update on trading, including...

View issue Harpers, 14 October 2005

Books: Hugh on Hugh
13 Oct 2005
To judge from Hugh Johnson’s latest book – Wine: A Life Uncorked (£20; Weidenfeld & Nicolson) – he has spent the past 40 years purely swanning around the world enthusing over...

View issue Harpers, 14 October 2005

Books: Greeks bearing books
13 Oct 2005
With Greek wine increasingly respected by the UK wine trade, Mitchell Beazley’s latest addition to its Classic Wine Library is The Wines of Greece by Konstantinos Lazarakis MW. ...

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Letters: In defence of Suolo
13 Oct 2005
I write in response to the column by Nicolas Belfrage MW and Franco Ziliani in Harpers (9 September). As a winemaker, I absolutely respect everyone’s right to judge a wine organoleptically...

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Dolcetto, amore mio
13 Oct 2005
Nicolas Belfrage mw and Franco Ziliani look at the Italian market. The Italians may not be everybody’s cup of tea, or rather glass of wine. They have never made wines that...

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Everything under the sun
13 Oct 2005
So how was it for you, this week’s Mega Tasting of South African wines? Presumably you ate your fill of biltong and snoek pâté, said ‘howzit’ to a few of the...

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In defence of our column
24 Oct 2005
In response to Hans Vinding-Diers’ letter on the subject of Super-Tuscans (Harpers, 14 October), we did not, in the context of Tuscany, confine the definition of ‘international’ to wines containing French...

View issue Harpers, 21 October

News is all about timing
24 Oct 2005
Regarding your news story ‘Boutflower quits Laymont & Shaw for Tanners’ (Harpers, 30 September), I feel a few clarifications are needed. ...

View issue Harpers, 21 October

Stein on French wine
24 Oct 2005
Thinking I had burned my boats with The Guardian, I was surprised, some weeks ago now, to be contacted by a (perhaps desperate) news editor who wondered if I could write,...

View issue Harpers, 21 October