Last call for Folding Sustainability into the Boardroom webinar

Harpers is diving into sustainability and how to positively impact boardroom culture during tomorrow’s webinar, taking place on Zoom from 10am to 11am.

Five minutes with Corinne Seely, winemaker at Exton Park

Jo Gilbert catches up with Corinne Seely at Exton Park about 60 Below – a sea-ageing project which aims to take English wine to new frontiers

Louis Roederer BAME Educational Bursary recipients announced

BAME Wine Professionals, the diversity-promoting website created by Mags Janjo and

Soapbox: Why 2021’s skills shortage could be the best thing to happen to the hospitality industry

For many workers in hospitality, it’s not only low pay, but aggression and isolation that are the norm. It’s time to change things, says Simon King, former operations director for Gordon Ramsay Group and co-owner of new Surrey gastropub The Victoria Oxshott.

Alto Adige producing Cabernet Sauvignon to “rival Bordeaux”

Rising temperatures are encouraging winegrowers in Italy’s Alto Adige region to plant more Bordeaux varieties that had previously struggled to ripen, according to a leading producer.

Guy Woodward: Challenging the wine nerd herd

It’s when the first question about clone types crops up that I begin to despair; or a query as to the length of time the juice spent macerating on its own skins. Or – kill me now – the wine’s exact pH level.

Q&A: Professor Gordy Pleyers, Université Catholique de Louvain

Taking drinks design into the realm of neuro-marketing and science, Professor Gordy Pleyers of Mind Insights at Université Catholique de Louvain introduces Andrew Catchpole to the non-conscious cues at play in our taste for wines and spirits

Level 4 climbdown offers some relief for Scotland

Level 4 restrictions will come to an end for parts of west central Scotland from 6pm on December 11. However, the Scottish Licensed Trade Association (SLTA) has said that there is much left to be done if businesses are to survive ongoing government measures.

Lockdown will end in Tiers (2 and 3 for most of England)

The end of lockdown will bring little relief for England’s hospitality sector, which is returning to the rule of alcohol “only to be served with substantial meals” or stricter for most of the country.

Liberty Wines apprentice scheme opens

Applications are now open for the apprentice scheme run by London-based importer and wholesaler Liberty Wines.

Harpers to host sparkling wine discussion at Bellavita

Harpers editor Andrew Catchpole will host a roundtable on sparkling wines at Mediterranean food and wine fair Bellavita next week.

Bibendum opens search for 2020 Wine Minds apprentices

Applications are now open for Bibendum Wine’s 2020 Wine Minds apprenticeship scheme.

Tim Atkin MW: Canary in the global coalmine

“Phew. What A Scorcher!” I’m old enough to remember June 1976, when we had 15 consecutive days above 32°C. The Sun’s headline captured some of the excitement I felt as a teenager. In those days British summers were frequently cool, overcast affairs and all of a sudden Kent felt like the Costa Brava. What was scorching then seems almost temperate now. Last week Cambridge sweated through the second hottest day ever at 38.1°C, just behind Faversham’s UK record of 38.5°C in August 2003.

China to squeeze bulk supply of Australian red to critical levels over next 3-5 years