Is meat really made for Malbec?
by Natasha Hughes MW
The wine trade loves a good shibboleth. Sauternes is the best match for foie gras, for instance. (Wrong, unless you’re into having your palate clagged up by an unctuous sweet...
Natasha Hughes MW
After several false starts as a caterer, film runner and book editor, Natasha Hughes stumbled into a career as a wine writer, educator and consultant by accident a dozen years ago. She still can’t believe that she makes her living from travelling to some of the world’s most beautiful places in order to eat delicious meals and taste an incredibly diverse range of wines.
Articles by Natasha Hughes MW
Tricky food and wine matches
by Natasha Hughes MW
I really shouldn’t admit this as I could be talking myself out of a job, but most food and wine matching comes down to basic common sense. You don’t have...
The 12 wines of Christmas
by Natasha Hughes MW
December has barely begun, but if you’re anything like me 2016 has made you somewhat disinclined to feel much in the way of goodwill to all men, and you’re probably...
Vin de France: the flexible future?
by Natasha Hughes MW
To the French it was le gros rouge qui tache. We Brits were less interested in its saturated colour, but equally dismissive in our terminology, referring to it as plonk....
Taking to the flor
by Natasha Hughes MW
Fashion, so the experts say, is cyclical. Wear your flared jeans or Annie Hall waistcoat long enough and you’ll eventually look like you’re in with the in crowd. (Don’t hold...
What’s the point of food and wine matching?
by Natasha Hughes MW
One of my earliest gigs as a wine writer was to write up profiles of some of the world’s hottest sommeliers for the Decanter website (which, at the time, generated...
Try before you buy: the future of wine?
by Natasha Hughes MW
Some 10 years ago, when I first started out as a wine, journalist I was commissioned (by a certain Tim Atkin) to write about why people bought the wines they...