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How Sotheby’s wine chief navigated lockdown
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
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…
Confinement has given the Jancis Robinson contributor and 67 Pall Mall ambassador the perfect conditions in which to appreciate fine wine. But somehow, it’s just not the same…
Richard Siddle has been a business journalist all his working life. Chronicling the drinks industry’s response to the COVID-19 crisis has, he says, been strangely uplifting
As restaurant restrictions are lifted – but new rules imposed – is this what dining out will look like across the world?
Are you a Broad or a Deep? Our woman in Hong Kong on the key distinction between obsessive collectors
Former model turned restaurant critic Aiste Miseviciute is used to jetting around the world to eat in Michelin-starred splendour; in lockdown, she’s learning the joys of living local