Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

UNESCO listing leaves sweet taste for Commandaria producers

Published: 15 December, 2025

Cyprus’ Commandaria wine has just been inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Intangible Cultural Heritage took the decision on 10 December 2025 during its latest session in New Delhi, India, alongside other notable inscriptions such as Italy’s food culture.

Friday read: A new frontier between the vines of Cyprus

Published: 20 December, 2024

As Cyprus celebrates 800 years of its iconic sweet wine, Commandaria, a younger generation of winemakers is proving the island’s indigenous grape varieties can produce some serious dry wines too. Rebecca Pitcairn dives in.

Royal Tokaji eyeing ‘potential for growth’ as Essencia 2016 unveiled in UK

Published: 07 August, 2023

Sweet wines may be less in vogue these days in many mature western markets, but the uniqueness of Tokaji – and especially its flagship Aszú wines – are bucking that trend.