Cracking Claret: Bordeaux Cru Classé
You can say one thing for the Bordelais, with centuries of practice, they know how…
Browsing: Tipples
The Real Wine Fair: Tickets Giveaway
We’re pleased to offer our readers the chance to win tickets to the inaugural Real…
Not the Grapes of Wrath
Despite renewed tensions over the Falkland Islands, Argentina and Britain have peacefully collaborated to produce…
Experimental Exports to New York
Whether he’s spreading the jolly spirit of Hendrick’s Gin, or popping in to say “salut” at the ECC bars in Paris and London, Xavier Padovani is always on. And now he’s on in New York, opening the new ECC on Lower East Side.
The Oxford Wine Academy
“I arrive in the centre of Oxford a little early. I am really rather excited at the prospect of spending a whole afternoon drinking, I mean, learning about wine, even though I have a slight hangover.”
Drinking with Shakespeare
To drink, or not to drink, that is the question. Allow me to lead you in digesting tragedy with whisky until things look a little rosier (with apologies, in advance, to William Shakespeare)…
The Jackson Wines
In celebration of the Dorchester’s 80th birthday this year, Barbara Banke, from Jackson Family Wines, hosted a dinner in happy marriage with the launch of her new-to-market Vérité La Joie 2008.
Worship Street Whistling Shop
“If you haven’t yet experienced the Worship Street Whistling Shop, you should. And no, it’s not actually a shop, and you don’t need to be good at whistling. But you do need to like gin, which is where I come in.”
Lost in Translation
When grasshoppers, fish heads and raw tentacles prove too much for the stomach, there’s only one way to turn: whisky. Jihane Miller introduces three whiskies for when you don’t know your chicken feet from your chow mein.
The 13th Day of Christmas
As I approach the Hendrick’s Gin 13th Day of Christmas window at Jeroboams in Belgravia,…
Wines of Rapture
Supine on a striped sofa in the appropriately titled “Petting Room” of Quo Vadis members’ club in Soho, Lucy Shaw is surrounded by leather, lingerie and literature. She is about to indulge in the Wines of Rapture.
A Gallic Masterclass: Fromage et Vin
I’m not sure I’d ever tire of wine and food matching ‘masterclasses’. Yes, there’s the ‘how to taste wine correctly’ monotony, but if all else fails, it’s an evening of eating food and drinking wine, two of life’s most enjoyable pastimes.