John Harvey & Sons
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| Private company limited by shares | |
| Industry | wine importer |
| Founded | 1796 |
| Headquarters | Bristol, England |
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Key people
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John Harvey |
| Website | http://harveyssherry.com/ |
John Harvey & Sons is a brand (trading name) of a wine and sherry blending and merchant business started by John Harvey (the second) in Bristol, England in 1796. The business within 60 years had blended the first dessert sherry dubbed 'cream' which has changed little since 1880 and is known as Harvey's Bristol Cream. This product has been bottled in Bristol blue glass since the 1970s and is currently owned by Grupo Emperador Spain S.A., who purchased the brand, alongside three others from Beam Suntory in 2015.
In 1796 the first iteration of Harvey’s wine-trading business was established in Denmark Street in Bristol. This was owned by William Perry, who went into partnership with Thomas Urch. In 1822 Urch’s nephew (John Harvey I) joined the firm as an apprentice. By 1839 John Harvey was senior partner in the Bristol branch of the family business and by 1871 the whole business was known as John Harvey & Sons.
Bristol Cream sherry exports to America boomed from 1928 onwards with Jack Harvey making trips there as often as he could. From 1962 the business was known as Harveys of Bristol Ltd, and in 1966 the firm including all subsidiaries was bought out by Showerings, Vine Products & Whiteways Ltd. After 1960 the business relocated from Denmark Street to Whitchurch Lane, Hartcliffe, at which point the Denmark Street cellars became Britain’s only wine museum, with adjoining restaurant. Both closed in 2003. In 2016 there is a bar called Harvey's Cellars on the same site in Denmark Street.
Bristol Cream is a dark, complex amber product of Spanish fortified wine (sherry) that has been blended and bottled in Bristol, England since 1796. It was until 21st century acquisition, wholly owned by John Harvey & Sons of Bristol. From the 1970s, Harvey's has sold the products in bottles made from Bristol blue glass. John Harvey's descendants have continued importing and making Bristol cream since the takeover of the company's main brand. Some residual assets or shares of the business such as in vineyards are owned by former board member Joseph Harvey, the youngest of John Harvey's male descendants.
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