Published: 26 March, 2014
The BBC programme Michel Roux's Service focused on recruiting young people to consider the hospitality industry and in particular front-of-house as a career. It first screened in 2011, and has just been repeated on BBC Two.
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Published: 19 March, 2014
Nick Mantella shares his views on how Cava can compete with the fast-growing Prosecco, its plans to expand its branded portfolio, and Spanish wines in the UK market.
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Published: 13 March, 2014
Bernard Fontannaz, founder of Origin Wine on quality control, expanding its portfolio to include Old World wines and Fairtrade.
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Published: 11 March, 2014
Edward Robinson talks about the commercial success of Fairtrade wines at the Co-operative, how the Fairtrade mark works and highlights the group's biggest project in Argentina.
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Published: 07 March, 2014
Guillaume Deglise has big shoes to fill in replacing Robert Beynat as chief executive of Vinexpo. Here he tells Richard Siddle how he intends to create a very different type of show - based largely on the customer and branding lessons learnt from his career in Champagne
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Published: 07 March, 2014
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Published: 07 March, 2014
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Published: 07 March, 2014
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Published: 06 March, 2014
Having sold its Scotch whisky business Loch Lomond Distillery Company earlier this week to private equity, the Bulloch family has retained its controlling interest in Scotland's biggest independent wine merchant - Inverarity Morton. At the company's first major trade tasting since buying Forth Wines in October, managing director Stephen Russell and commercial director Ian Cumming spoke exclusively to harpers.co.uk.
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Published: 18 February, 2014
Set up in March 2013, Winetrust100 gathers experts to seek out the world's top 100 wines based on the price quality ratio. Founder John Valentine tells Dominic Weaver how it works.
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Published: 17 February, 2014
Ricardo Baettig, chief winemaker at Viña Morandé in Chile, talks about the 2014 harvest, experimental techniques and new grape varieties coming to the fore, and how people perceive Chilean wine.
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Published: 17 February, 2014
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Published: 13 February, 2014
Rupert Berkmann, managing director of Berkmann Wine Cellars, joined the family company 10 years ago. At the company's 50th anniversary tasting he talks to Anne Krebiehl about the firm and his vision.
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Published: 11 February, 2014
Laurie Davis, wine controller at on-trade supplier Matthew Clark, tells Gemma McKenna how the company is strengthening its wine reputation and growing sales.
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Published: 11 February, 2014
Moët & Chandon launches the 2006 vintage of Moët Grand Vintage and Giles Fallowfield talks to chief winemaker Benoît Gouez about the wine, the vintage and his philosophy on vintage Champagne at Moët.
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Published: 10 February, 2014
Formerly group bars manager of HIX restaurants, Cavanagh brings 13 years of experience to the Big Easy, Covent Garden, which opens in March and sits down to talk with Douglas Byde.
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Published: 06 February, 2014
Miles tells harpers.co.uk about making fine wine trading easier, innovation around supply chain, and why regions outside Bordeaux are becoming more important.
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Published: 03 February, 2014
With the newly-revamped London Wine Fair looming on the horizon, event director Ross Carter tells us what we should expect in 2014.
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Published: 29 January, 2014
Richard Siddle talks to the new chief executive of Vinexpo about his plans for the Bordeaux event and how he has found moving over to a show organiser from the Champagne sector.
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Published: 29 January, 2014
Andrew Chapman, sales director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for Trinchero Family Estates, on why it moved its business away from PLB to set up its own distribution, and what's next for the company.
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