This week the wine trade gathered at Olympia for the annual London Wine Fair. With tastings, masterclasses, seminars and industry briefings taking place over three days, we sent Sophie Thorpe to report on the issues facing the industry today While wine producers swarm west London to tout their wares, the London Wine Fair offers more […]

Originally published in the spring of 1970, this month’s article from Number Three ponders the future of the independent merchant, considering both the impact of climate change and the rise of the supermarket. No doubt it is cowardly of us, but we sometimes feel we should have more heart to face the future if we were not […]

Here our Chairman Simon Berry comments on the importance of balance, not only in the bottle, but in the business. This article was originally written for The Spectator, who has kindly given us permission to republish the piece here. Aubert de Villaine’s office in Vosne-Romanée has a wonderful view of the hill-side of his legendary […]

While life in the wine trade isn’t necessarily as entertaining as it sounds, or so Damian Carrington – Agency Director of Fields, Morris & Verdin – tries to tell his friends; here he reports on the new wave of producers in South Africa, a country whose vinous prospects are as exciting as can be, and […]