Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

John Smith retires from PLB

Published: 23 July, 2008

PLB's managing director retires having been with company since its launch.

Heat treatment tests on vines

Published: 23 July, 2008

A Chilean winery is experimenting with a machine, which blows 100C heat at 200km an hour on to the vines to control pests.

Vinum tasting kicks off with 300 expected

Published: 23 July, 2008

Italian specialist Vinum's annual tasting has started in London's Whitehall, with around 300 visitors predicted to attend.

Bordeaux is world's best-known wine region

Published: 23 July, 2008

A new survey has shown that Bordeaux is the best-known wine region in the world.

Three Oceans Wine Company to target North America

Published: 23 July, 2008

Western Australia producer Palandri has teamed up with South Africa-based The Company of Wine People to set up a joint wine importing and marketing venture in North America.

MW scholarship offered by Yalumba

Published: 23 July, 2008

MW students given the chance to win a trip to Australia

Thierry Cabanne dies in car crash

Published: 23 July, 2008

Founder and chairman of Thierry's Wine Services, Thierry Cabanne, died in a car accident in the early hours of yesterday morning

New tracking scheme for Aussie shipments

Published: 23 July, 2008

Wine and Spirit companies have successfully trialled use of a unique identifier number to track and trace products moving between the UK and Australia.

Italian police tackle wine fraud

Published: 23 July, 2008

Italian military police have qualified as sommeliers to sniff out wine fraud.

London's diners pay highest prices

Published: 23 July, 2008

UK: London is most expensive city in the world for dining out

Tesco launches autumn wine promotion

Published: 23 July, 2008

UK: Tesco's autumn wine festival has wine discounts of up to 50%

Government health campaign to be announced

Published: 23 July, 2008

UK: Health secretary, Alan Johnson, is today announce a series of measures today that will improve the nation's health, including alcohol use, from the "womb to the tomb".

New law lets Uluru tourists drink alcohol

Published: 23 July, 2008

Tourists to Uluru and other Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory will be allowed to drink alcohol, following the Australian government's controversial amendment to a new law.

South African exports up

Published: 23 July, 2008

South African wine sales in the UK, its biggest market, are up more than 2% on last year, but still well below the 10% total global export growth for the first half 2007.