Wine & Spirit was a British monthly magazine on wine, spirits, beers and cocktails, directed at both consumers and the drinks industry. The magazine also organized the annual " International Wine Challenge" and " International Spirits Challenge", and published the annual results book, the World's Best Wines Guide.

Wine & Spirit was viewed as a competitor of Decanter, described by Jancis Robinson as "Britain's second consumer wine magazine", though livelier. ^[2]

History

The magazine was a consumer-only oriented magazine founded as What Wine? in 1983 by Robert Joseph and Charles Metcalfe and published by Wilmington plc. ^[1] It was later renamed Wine Magazine, then Wine International, before it was sold with its sister trade-only publication Wine & Spirit (a 150-year-old trade publication where Jancis Robinson began her wine writing career as editor immediately after university) to William Reed Publishing in December 2005. ^[3]

The two magazines were combined into one, Wine & Spirit International, in February 2006. ^{[3] [4]}

In 2008, William Reed acquired Harpers Magazine. ^[5] Wine & Spirit International and Harpers merged in 2009 to form Harpers, Wine & Spirit Trades Review. ^[6]

See also

• List of food and drink magazines

References