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Exotic Wine Travel cracks Croatia

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
3 min read
Books are strange things. In the 21st century, they're curiously out of whack with our demands for immediacy, and fast being replaced by digital equivalents in many settings. Yet they carry a certain gravitas about them, perhaps due to their permanence or even their physical weight - not to mention

One nation under an ocean of booze

Simon J Woolf
Beer Reviews
2 min read
For Brits like myself, 2016 got off to a decidedly queasy start, with the extraordinary proclamations of the UK's Department of Health as it released new, draconian guidelines for alcohol consumption. Let's begin 2017 on a more positive note, ignoring for a moment the various political calamities on both sides of

Book Review: The Essence of Wine

Mary Orlin
Feature Stories
4 min read
When you put your nose in a glass, you may love what you smell, but how often are you at a loss to describe that essence, that bouquet? Ah, the mystery of our sense of smell. It is powerful and we can't really control it. When we smell something, our

Book Review: Brandy: A Global History

Cathy Huyghe
Features
4 min read
The timing for the release of Brandy: A Global History could not be more perfect. Just as much of the country is settling in for winter’s long, cold nights, author Becky Sue Epstein comes along with a book ideally suited to curling up, under a blanket or near the fireplace,

All You Ever Wanted to Know About Wine Grapes

Remy Charest
Features
4 min read
Wine Grapes, the huge new encyclopedic work by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding, and José Vouillamoz covering 1,368 varieties of grapes used to make wine around the world, is at once full of surprises and unsurprising. It is full of surprises because it is full of information about the secret life