Published: 18 January, 2007
While so much industry talk in the last few weeks has focused on how much the Government will add on wine this budget - will it be 15p, will it be 50p? - the emphasis on this one issue and this one day rather misses the point.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
Harpers reported on the launch of Vin Deux half- bottle sizes in Waitrose last week.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
Lots to talk about this week in Harpers' YouTube and quirkies round-up
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Published: 18 January, 2007
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
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Published: 18 January, 2007
Last week the BMA launched a report on tackling alcohol misuse in the UK.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
If you are worried about higher alcohol content says Peter Barry "don't drink the whole bottle". He seems to me to be missing the point.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
At a time when the issue of alcohol consumption is generating more heat than light in parts of the press it's been instructive to uncover some facts and figures that tell a rather different picture about what the public really think.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
Lots to talk about this week in Harpers' YouTube and quirkies round-up
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Published: 18 January, 2007
One of the crushing side-effects of giving up an annual wine guide and a weekly wine column - both, if you recall, called Superplonk- is that I no longer have to taste 10,000 supermarket wines a year and face those challenging post-tasting lunches.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
In June 2007, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture substantially increased the list of permitted varieties.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
Regionality is one of those terms that transcend criticism.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
So many wine marketers have missed their calling.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
Lots to talk about this week in Harpers' YouTube and quirkies round-up
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Published: 18 January, 2007
The recent optimism around the news that cost of making wine would be rising across the board would be heart-warming, if it wasn't also so utterly misplaced.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
Lots to talk about this week in Harpers' YouTube and quirkies round-up.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
The meeting of the intergovernmental panel on climate change in Valencia and also in Bali has confirmed that climate change is a fact and that humans are responsible for it.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
Lots to talk about this week in our YouTube and quirkies round-up.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
As we finalise the WSTA Budget Submission 2008, a nagging voice at the back of my mind asks, "Really, what is the point?".
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Published: 18 January, 2007
This year marks the 21st anniversary for Vintage Roots, the organic and biodynamic wine specialist distribution company I set up with Neil Palmer in 1986.
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Published: 18 January, 2007
James (Letters, Harpers, January 11) will be disappointed to learn that none of his suggestions are to be adopted at the 2008 London International Wine Fair.
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