Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Rosé sales grow, avoiding wine market shrinkage

Published: 07 April, 2026

Rosé wine sales are bucking the trend of declining still wine sales, according to the WSTA’s latest Market Report.

Liv-ex: UK buyers diversifying away from Bordeaux

Published: 14 November, 2025

Global wine exchange Liv-ex has released its market report for November, which shows that momentum in the secondary market is continuing to build – encouragingly, the Bordeaux 500 saw its first increase since March 2023.

Fine wine trading decline slows, but ‘no clear bottom in sight’ says Liv-ex

Published: 13 October, 2023

A year into a global decline in fine wine trading the market remains volatile, though with some signs that the decline may be slowing.

Organic wine ‘big winner’ in 2019

Published: 05 February, 2020

Organic wine was the “big category winner” in 2019 as supermarkets cashed in on shoppers’ environmental concerns, according to the Soil Association Certification’s annual Organic Market Report 2020 released today.

Gin: Ascending the throne

Published: 14 November, 2019

It’s been on the cards for some time. Back in 2014, there were rumblings that gin was poised to overtake vodka as the UK’s spirit of choice in time for the new decade.