How to enjoy the ephemeral pleasures of wine
by Harry Eyres
Among all the bottles in what I somewhat pretentiously call my “cellar”, this one had followed me most faithfully. It must have rested briefly in the flat I shared with...
Harry Eyres
Harry Eyres has been writing the weekly wine column in Country Life magazine since 2015. He also writes a regular column – L’Ame du Vin – in The World of Fine Wine. Before that he was for eleven years the Slow Lane columnist in FT Weekend, a Times theatre critic and arts writer, the European Arts columnist for Newsweek, wine columnist for the Spectator and The London Daily News and wine editor of Harpers Bazaar. He has written several books, including Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet (Bloomsbury), Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation (Springer), Wine Dynasties of Europe (Lennard), The Viking Guide to Cabernet Sauvignon and Hotel Eliseo, a poetry collection.
Articles by Harry Eyres
The Joys of Serendipity
by Harry Eyres
Bottles of wine don’t usually carry a sell-by date, though supermarket staples may come with advice to drink in the next six to 12 months (in actual fact they’re likely...
What Heidegger teaches us about drinking and thinking
by Harry Eyres
In Monty Python’s immortal “Bruces’ Philosophers Song”, the controversial German thinker Martin Heidegger – for many one of the two greatest philosophers of the 20thcentury but tainted by his association...
The Taste of Smoke
by Harry Eyres
I write in a time of ashes. Not only have certain political dreams and projects recently gone up in smoke; the destructive fires have been raging more literally, all across...