Veteran food writer Tim Hayward questions what made us lionise celebrity chefs, and argues that it's time for another out-dated institution to be torn down
Whether wine or whisky, drinking is, by its very nature, a shared, social experience, not given to cautious precision. So what are we meant to do now?
For New Zealand winemaker Oliver Styles, it was a question that came to dominate his life over a testing – and testy – two months during harvest
From a brush with the gendarmes to a rapidly-emptying cellar, Nina Caplan chronicles a surreal but well-nourished two months hunkered down in the remote Burgundian countryside
The veteran wine writer says rivalling Champagne is now a given, and English producers should be setting their sights on the still wines of Burgundy and Provence
Jamie Ritchie, Sotheby’s global head of fine wine, reflects on the contradictions of life in lockdown as he witnesses the 280-year-old auction house embracing the digital age
The Wine Society’s Rhône, German and Southern French buyer is the latest guest columnist to document his experience in lockdown
Joe Fattorini has been chronicling the changing moods and fortunes of the UK’s sommeliers as they face up to an uncertain future. The results have only increased his respect for our corkscrew wielders…
In lockdown, the pandemic has convinced the advertising legend of the need to change our approach to agriculture. And, he says, the wine world can do its bit…
With little in the way of work, and Milan shut down, Andrea Loi, head sommelier at Seta in the city’s Mandarin Oriental hotel, turned to other pursuits to stay sane…