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.
Read more...Harpers reported on the launch of Vin Deux half- bottle sizes in Waitrose last week.
Read more...Lots to talk about this week in Harpers' YouTube and quirkies round-up
Read more..."Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
Read more...Last week the BMA launched a report on tackling alcohol misuse in the UK.
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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.
Read more...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.
Read more...Lots to talk about this week in Harpers' YouTube and quirkies round-up
Read more...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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In June 2007, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture substantially increased the list of permitted varieties.
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Regionality is one of those terms that transcend criticism.
Read more...So many wine marketers have missed their calling.
Read more...Lots to talk about this week in Harpers' YouTube and quirkies round-up
Read more... 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.
Lots to talk about this week in Harpers' YouTube and quirkies round-up.
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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.
Read more...Lots to talk about this week in our YouTube and quirkies round-up.
Read more...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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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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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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