Snapshots from Heaven

With abysmally low levels of profitability one of the biggest threats facing the wine industry worldwide, is a new qualification part of the solution? Is the image of Tim Nice but Dim about to be dispelled once and for all by a new elite of high-flying business executives? Neil Beckett investigates the world's first Wine MBA

TESCO DENIES 'RADICAL' CULL

Best of British?

The fragmented category of British Wine (or the affordables category, as it has become known) may lack glamour, but still contains some strong brands, as David Williams reports

Global Surplus - part II

The global wine lake is getting deeper and wider. But it does not engulf everybody and everything. In the second of a two-part investigation, Neil Beckett asks who and what will be most affected and what, if anything, can be done about it?

Global Surplus - part I

The global wine surplus. Everyone knows it exists. But how bad is it really? Who and what will be most affected and what can be done about it? The answers, says Neil Beckett in a two-part investigation, will be good news for some and bad for others

MIDI PROTEST TURNS VIOLENT

By Jim Budd

MONDAVI JOINS CELLAR DOOR

IMW PULLS OUT OF MOVE TO NEW WSET BUILDING

CHABLIS SEARCHES FOR 'DIVINE' WINE LIST

Harvest Highs II

In the concluding part of the Harpers vintage round-up, Jo Burzynska and James Aufenast report on harvests in Spain, Portugal, Germany and Eastern Europe

SOUTHCORP PROPOSES FOSTER'S MERGER

By Jack Hibberd

ITALIAN GIANT MOVES INTO CHINA

By Nicolas Belfrage MW & Franco Ziliani

FRESCOBALDI BUYS OUT CONSTELLATION

By Nicolas Belfrage MW & Franco Ziliani

ALLIED GETS SENSIBLE

HARPERS AUCTION

............For Red Nose Day

WINE RACK COMEBACK

UNWINS U-TURN: SOLD TO PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM

By Jack Hibberd

'RADICAL' WSA REFORMS

By Jack Hibberd

SOUTH AFRICA SETS TARGETS

By Josie Butchart

ROPITEAU OPENS UMBRELLA

By David Williams