In the exciting (other adjectives are available) times we’re living in, we’re often told that writing is passé, people just don’t bother reading words anymore. A few journalistic outlets, especially...
The Many Sins Of Wine Critics
Traditional labels? Suck My Duck
Never say that wine labelling regulations are a subject devoid of humour. The Tribunal Correctionnel de Paris recently heard a case brought by anti-alcohol NGO Addictions France against Languedoc vigneron...
A New White Zin
If you are not familiar with the lore of White Zinfandel — America’s greatest contribution to wine culture — you are missing out on some excellent cocktail conversation. I understand...
Future Forward
What we’ll be drinking in 2029 In my grandmother’s kitchen there’s a cover of The Sunday Times Magazine stuck on one of the cupboards. It’s the final edition from 2009,...
Collecting Flavour
Every trade has its sartorial call-signs. The wine trade plays host to the fraternity-of-the-red-trouser, its membership made up of legs that appear to have filled, loafer-to-belt, with decades of luncheon...
Drink Promiscuously
It bothers me that wine drinkers frequently choose wine based on colour, or indeed dismiss those of the “wrong” colour. I have encountered this discrimination most overtly in the rosé...
Back to the future
Fine wines are timeless – that elusive combination of elegance, complexity and gravitas, plus ageing potential in spades. Their prices unfortunately are not. Top rank Bordeaux, Burgundy or mature Barolos...
A Fruity Number
I know we’ve just come through the silly season, when tales of killer chipmunks and dolphin sign language deputise for what’s normally classed as news in the British media, but...
