Reviews

29th Jul 2010

Review of the National Portrait Gallery's wine list

Is there a better view of the centre of London than the vista from the roof-top restaurant of the National Portrait Gallery? To paraphrase the late English football manager, Brian Clough, it is surely in the top one. Sit at a coveted window... Read more

22nd Mar 2010

Review of Langham Place restaurant, Hong Kong

It's a boom time for wine in Hong Kong. Since the government abolished the tax on this most civilised of alcoholic beverages two years ago, the region has become the centre of the Asian fine wine market. The duty free shops at the airport are... Read more

17th Dec 2009

My pick of the Cape

"Why don't you like our wines?" a South African producer asked me recently. The perception in the Cape, spread by a combination of ignorance and wilful mischief making, is that I've got it in for South Africa. The other, equally... Read more

21st Jun 2009

Best summer wines

I drink different wines in summer. I’d no more sit down to a cockle-warming, fireside Châteauneuf du Pape in August than I would a Sancerre on the darkest, shortest December day. If the sun’s shining – and that’s... Read more

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