Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Jeroboams Group acquires Davy’s storage

Published: 07 November, 2024

The Jeroboams Group has announced the acquisition of another in-bond storage facility, bolstering its leadership in the fine wine and private client market.

Guy Woodward: Why wine investment is the scourge of the wine world

Published: 04 November, 2024

If there’s one wine headline guaranteed to have me reaching for the eye-roll emoji (to be honest, there are several, though never in this fine publication, obvs), it’s the ‘Fine wine index soars as investors toast bullish market’ type of thing.

Justerini & Brooks celebrates 275 years with launch of Limited Series

Published: 29 October, 2024

Wine merchant Justerini & Brooks marked 275 years in business last week via the launch of several exclusive products at its grand anniversary celebration at Burlington Arcade in Mayfair.

2024 Golden Vines Awards honour excellence in wine and spirits

Published: 28 October, 2024

The 2024 Golden Vines Awards, organised by Liquid Icons, celebrated standout names in fine wine and rare spirits at a gala in Madrid’s Palacio Cibeles.

Berry Bros. & Rudd debuts auction platform with wines from Ian Mill’s collection

Published: 22 October, 2024

Berry Bros. & Rudd is making its entry into the auction market, leveraging the private wine collection of long-time client Ian Mill KC. This inaugural auction will be held online, featuring selections from a Burgundy collection recognised as one of the finest worldwide.

Berry Bros. & Rudd enters fine wine auctions market

Published: 01 October, 2024

Berry Bros. & Rudd, the UK’s oldest fine wine and spirits merchant, has announced its entry into the fine wine auction market with the launch of Berry Bros. & Rudd Auctions.

Guy Woodward: LVMH and the cult of personality

Published: 12 September, 2024

I copped a bit of flak recently for heading to Spain for the global launch of Dom Pérignon’s 2015 vintage, rather than attending the London bash. It’s a fair cop. Though if you felt a 48-hour London-to-Barcelona jaunt was indulgent, you should have seen the press corps from Japan, Korea and the US. I trust there was plenty of carbon-offsetting to cover those business-class flights…

Producer Q&A: Christian Seely, AXA Millésimes

Published: 19 August, 2024

Firmly orbiting in the fine wine firmament, AXA Millésimes MD Christian Seely talks to Andrew Catchpole about his early inspiration and the philosophy it subsequently shaped.

Wine Lister launches new website and logo

Published: 25 January, 2024

Fine wine consultancy Wine Lister has today (25 January) launched its new website and logo, consolidating its analysis and marketing services for the world's leading wineries.

Bordeaux Index: Fine wine takes a tumble in 2023

Published: 22 January, 2024

‘Frenzied activity’ characterised the fine wine market during the second half of 2021 and most of 2022 in particular for Champagne and Burgundy, when prices increased by 69% and 58% respectively according to Bordeaux Index. However, things were much more subdued in 2023, with the platform also predicting some return of optimism in 2024.

Exclusive: Bewes and Saunders chart the future for Hallgarten and Coterie

Published: 20 December, 2023

The sale of leading specialist importer Hallgarten & Novum Wines from the Pieroth family has been five years in the making, Harpers has learned. Now, as it moves its portfolio of premium on-trade accounts and producers to Coterie Holdings, a new chapter is in store for both businesses as they look to bolster their portfolios and advance their march into the fine wine market, with Coterie, in particular, looking to establish its hold as a key player in the nation’s top restaurants.

Fine wine no longer ‘pillar of stability’ in tumultuous market

Published: 11 December, 2023

In 2022, fine wine established itself as a powerful alternative amidst times of economic turmoil, a pillar of stability in an otherwise volatile equities market.

Fine wine trading decline slows, but ‘no clear bottom in sight’ says Liv-ex

Published: 13 October, 2023

A year into a global decline in fine wine trading the market remains volatile, though with some signs that the decline may be slowing.

Bibendum appoints Valeria Rodriguez as head of Fine Wine

Published: 10 August, 2023

Bibendum Wine, the premium wine specialist, has appointed Valeria Rodriguez as head of its Fine Wine division.

Cult Wines: Bordeaux takes a tumble with steepest fall in June

Published: 07 July, 2023

Cult Wines, which has its finger on the pulse of the fine wine market, reports a -0.83% decline in fine wine markets in June, marking the downturn of a broader market correction following an extended rally which ran from mid-2020 through to 2022.

Flint Wines scoops up new MD for period of expansion

Published: 09 June, 2023

Flint Wines has announced the appointment of Katy Keating to lead the company through its next phase of development and expansion, following her departure from Lay & Wheeler.

Insatiable demand for En Primeur Burgundy and luxury Champagne may be weakening, suggests new report

Published: 03 May, 2023

A study published by investment firm WineCap has revealed several key trends that continue to shape the fine wine market in 2023, including a relatively lacklustre demand for 2021 Burgundy and expensive bubbly.

Tim Atkin MW: ‘Fine wine’ is outdated

Published: 09 February, 2023

It was a noble, if ultimately inconclusive exercise. Maybe that’s true of anything that involves an indigestible dose of subjectivity. But you can’t fault Areni Global for attempting to define and “rethink” the fine wine market, no less. In a recent white paper, accompanied by an entertaining panel debate and tasting at Sotheby’s in London, the impressive think tank set out to analyse what its chair, Nicole Rolet, calls the “fine wine ecosystem”. Ambitious, as I said.

Fine wine gets the January blues

Published: 09 February, 2023

Fine wine got off to a slow start in the first month of 2023 at fine wine investment platform Cult Wines, deflating a more encouraging bubble which began towards the end of 2022.