Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

IWC Champion Sparkling Wine goes to England

Published: 10 September, 2025

For the first time ever, the International Wine Challenge (IWC) have given an English wine the Champion Sparkling Wine (Daniel Thibault Trophy) award.

Nyetimber sponsors England Rugby

Published: 01 September, 2025

The English sparkling wine producer Nyetimber is now the official sparkling wine of England Rugby.

Nyetimber predicts record-breaking UK sparkling crop in 2022

Published: 26 September, 2022

Sparkling wine brand Nyetimber is poised to harvest a record area of vines – 325 hectares – to produce well over one million bottles of fizz from vintage 2022.

Great night for Liberty Wines and English fizz at IWC 2018 Awards ceremony

Published: 11 July, 2018

As the wine trade gathered at London’s Grosvenor Park Hotel last night for the annual International Wine Challenge Awards dinner the stream of medals came thick and fast with some notable wins this year.