29th Jul 2010
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
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
"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
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