Bendito Destino: a brilliant new project in Spain’s Ribero del Duero
Website: https://www.benditodestino.wine/ Terry Kandylis was head sommelier at 67 Pall Mall, and then spent a year working for Caprice Holdings,
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Features
Quinta da Vacariça, a French sommelier making biodynamic wines in Portugal’s Bairrada region (updated with new notes, June 2025)
François Chasans was a sommelier in France, and he first came to Portugal in 1998. He came for an agricultural
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Visiting the Kernel brewery in Bermondsey, the Grand Cru of the UK beer scene
Website: https://www.thekernelbrewery.com/index.php For a while, I ran a beer blog, with Daniel Primack. It was quite fun, even if it
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The new wines from the Marco de Jerez: Sherry and Manzanilla reinvented, by going back to the past
In 2008 Niepoort collaborated with Equipo Navazos to make a special wine: an unfortified flor-aged table wine. This was to
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Dinner with friends including three interesting Chinese wines
Eddie McDougall was in town so a gathering of the new Canary Wharf Wine Club was convened to welcome him
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Lounge raid, BA terminal 5, including Mullineux, Henriot and Greywacke
A quick stop in the First Class lounge at Heathrow Terminal Five gave me a chance to do some tasting.
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The wines of Wynns, Coonawarra – interviewing Sue Hodder, chief winemaker of Australia’s leading producers, updated with new release notes (May 2025)
Coonawarra is a celebrated wine region in South Australia, and Wynns are one of the most important players here. It
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Terres d’Imaginaire: a brilliant new producer from the Loire
Terres d’Imaginaire is an exciting new producer in Anjou, and very much a rising star. It’s the project of 32-year-old
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A vertical of Domaine Chevrot’s Aligoté Tilleul with Pablo Chevrot
Website: https://www.chevrot.fr/ Pablo Chevrot (above) is the vice president of a group called Les Aligoteurs, focusing on the grape variety
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Quinta do Noval deep dive: latest releases and more from this important Douro estate
Head to the Douro and then make your way to Vale Mendiz in the Pinhão Valley, you’ll find one of
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