In addition to the outstanding selection of trophy, gold, silver and bronze medal wines at this year’s Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA), our winning producers and distributors are also now revealed.
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Nominations for the Harpers Top 50 Drinks Wholesalers list are once again open to the trade.
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Published: 01 April, 2026
The 2026 Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards has released its list of gold, silver and bronze medal winners.
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Published: 04 February, 2026
There is now only two weeks left to enter wines to be judged at the Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA) 2026.
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Published: 15 December, 2025
With the on-trade now in full swing over the lead up to what we hope is a fruitful Christmas, a reminder that the Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA) 2026 is open for entries.
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Published: 29 October, 2025
The Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA) is open for entries to its 2026 round of judging.
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The Harpers Top 50 Drinks Wholesalers list is again open for nominations from the trade.
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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.
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Published: 04 November, 2024
The Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA) is once again open for entries for its 2025 round of judging.
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Published: 25 April, 2024
The Harpers Top 50 Drinks Wholesalers list is once again open for nominations from the trade.
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Published: 14 March, 2024
Following a pandemic-induced hiatus, the Sommelier Wine Awards (SWA) made a lively return this week (12-13 March) at The Oval in London, bringing together judges from a wide pool of the UK's leading restaurants.
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Published: 08 December, 2022
Judging the package, rather than the liquid within, is always an eye-opening and interesting exercise, and this year’s Harpers Design Awards once again delivered some sublime entries worthy of celebration. Andrew Catchpole dips in.
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What a couple of years the trade has had. What ups and downs. During the worst months of Covid, we’re sure there are some who felt a bit like Midas’s barber in the ancient tales. Forced under pain of death to keep his master’s secret – that the former Greek king was hiding a pair of donkey’s ears beneath his hat – the unfortunate barber was only able to vent by taking himself to a bed of reeds and screaming that the king had, indeed, become part-ass.
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Published: 28 January, 2022
The CIVB (Bordeaux Wine Council) has invited retailers, agents and producers to submit wines for the Bordeaux Hot 50 Selection competition, now in its third year.
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Published: 30 September, 2021
Harpers Wine Stars awards is gearing up for its early 2022 round of judging, with entries for the competition invited by 14 October this year.
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Published: 07 December, 2020
Each year the entries for Harpers Design Awards deliver much to delight, with the bar raised time and again, and so it proved once more with our 2020 judging. This year delivered many exemplary category winners, along with a host of worthy gold, silver and bronze medals.
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Published: 07 September, 2020
Join us as the annual Harpers 50 Best Indies awards are announced throughout this week (7 to 11 September), culminating in a live webinar with the top 10 on Friday as the final results are announced.
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Published: 21 April, 2020
The deadline for entries to Harpers Wine Stars 2020 has been extended to 17 September.
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Published: 25 March, 2020
We are once again launching our annual 50 Best Indies Awards, to recognise the best in the business of indie drinks retailing.
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Published: 15 March, 2019
Harpers Wine Stars Awards is inviting entries from Germany, Austria, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Lebanon, to join established category England and Wales, at the next round of judging this Spring, with the entry deadline on 16 April.
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