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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
