Published: 19 December, 2025
How do you design the perfect, catch-all wine label for the 21st-century consumer? A young start-up may well crave contemporary shock value, but Château Lafite is unlikely to embrace funky designs and psychedelic script when its brand equity depends on projecting notions of heritage and storied prestige. The visual language of yesterday – cursive fonts, textured paper and stately imagery – still has an important role to play in a world where consumer expectations vary significantly.
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Published: 18 November, 2025
Vanessa Stoltz, restaurant manager and head sommelier, Restaurant Pine, speaks to Oliver Catchpole about what it takes to run a sustainable wine list
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Published: 13 November, 2025
Paul Morgan, co-owner of Hove’s outstanding Fourth & Church wine bar, explains his preference for gentle introduction and guidance over hard dogma when it comes to more ‘natural’-leaning wine.
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Published: 08 August, 2025
For the next edition of our Summer Q&A series Doug Wregg, director of sales and marketing at Les Caves de Pyrene, contemplates what has been a challenging year for the wine trade.
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Published: 16 August, 2024
We continue our summer Q&A series with Doug Wregg, sales and marketing director at Les Caves de Pyrene.
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During the 1990’s my business sold millions of bottles of great value Hungarian wines to the UK’s supermarkets. The wines were made under the guidance of a young Australian winemaker whose hands on approach ensured they bristled with ripe fruit flavours. Retailing at the equivalent of £6-£8 at today’s prices they went down a storm in the high-volume part of the burgeoning wine market.
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Interest in organic and natural wine is growing. James Bayley asks why more can’t be found in supermarkets.
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A panoply of minimal intervention styles, from the 100% natural to a range of ‘hands-off’ products, put the spotlight on the very sharpest examples of Australia’s cutting-edge winemaking at Monday’s (22 May) Deep Down Under tasting.
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Published: 16 March, 2023
Amphora Cambridge owner Cong Cong Bo takes a low intervention swipe at the faddish addiction to the word ‘natural’ in wine.
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Published: 13 March, 2023
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Published: 10 August, 2022
An eight day celebration of minimum-intervention winemaking is due to take place in Hastings this September, organised by restaurant owners Ben and Kate Norum.
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Published: 29 November, 2021
France’s only female Master of Wine has launched a new virtual wine festival Alive!, due to take place on 5 and 6 December.
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Published: 04 August, 2021
Provisions, the north London natural wine experts and cheese specialist, is launching its own wine school.
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Published: 07 January, 2021
Top Cuvée’s story is like many others in 2020. A restaurant forced to close, hard decisions to be made, while leaning into other parts of the business in order to bump through furlough and intermittent lockdowns. However, like so many, there’s another story beneath. For Top Cuvée, 2020 has been an exercise in pure agility, with its co-founders having to pedal – quite literally, in some instances – from one new venture to the next in a bid to keep the lights on.
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Doug Wregg considers prejudice, provenance and ideology in a spoofy wine world.
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Published: 21 April, 2020
Georgian wine exports to the UK surged, albeit from a small platform, in the first quarter of this year boosted by a quartet of new importers.
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Published: 07 February, 2020
The head winemaker at Dorset winery Langham Estate has branched out on his own to embark on a sustainable winemaking venture.
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Published: 04 September, 2019
As the first half of 2019 draws to a close, Harpers asked key trade figures to highlight the current challenges, ongoing trends and opportunities
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The co-founder of the Real Wine Fair says the revolution is over, and that new generation of drinkers have got behind natural wine – although the trade’s elite still needs some convincing.
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Published: 26 February, 2019
Raw Wine London has “partnered with some of the UK’s top low-intervention organic, biodynamic and natural wine importers” for its new ‘Speakers Corner’ tasting and talks area.
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