Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Harpers Top 50 Sommeliers 2026

Published: 14 September, 2026

Our Top 50 Sommeliers list is a celebration of the incredible talent behind the equally impressive collective and individual drinks offers across the UK’s world-class restaurant scene. As such, it digs much deeper than the drinks list alone, with our judges contemplating many facets of the sommelier role, from service and staff training to innovation and commercial acumen. Appropriateness of the overall offer for the venue and its guests is also a major factor.

Sommelier Wine Awards 2025 results

Published: 20 June, 2025

The results are in for this year’s Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA) competition with 2025’s crop of entries throwing up a healthy tally of medals, pointing to both the quality and diversity of wines available to the UK on-trade. And once again, in terms of overall wines entered and medals won, the major European producing countries lead the pack. Notable standouts too, though, are Australia, noted for its strong medal haul, and sparkling wines, including the English contingent, which also did very well.