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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

29th Jul 2010

Rasputin and underwater wines

What is it about the Baltic and champagne? Last week's high profile discovery of a cache of bubbly aboard a shipwreck is not the first time fizz has been found on a Nordic sea bed. In 1998, treasure hunters recovered 3,000 bottles from a... Read more

23rd Jul 2010

Wines to drink by the Med

When the package tour operator Goldtrail Travel collapsed last week, cancelling the summer holidays of some 50,000 customers, bar owners in Greece and Turkey must have had mixed feelings. Goldtrail's rowdier punters were famously enthusiastic... Read more

23rd Jul 2010

Where now for post-World Cup South Africa?

The idea of golf being used as a symbol for the new, racially integrated South Africa might sound absurd to some. You've only got to walk around a top course in the Cape to realise that golf remains the preserve of a white elite. But there... Read more

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