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06 March 2014

One of London’s greatest restaurants has a very simple interview process for jobs within its hallowe...

Wine regulation: The devil drives

05 March 02014

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I found myself repeating this proverb a few weeks a...
Nudging sublimity

05 March 02014

It’s not often that I keep a cork. Memories of enough bottles swill around in my head without having...
Fluid boundaries

04 March 02014

Philosophy, claimed Aristotle, begins in wonder. The same holds true for love of wine. No vinous exp...

See-saws and sweet spots

27 February 2014

Many fundamental wine puzzles appear capable of-in fact, demand-a one-word answer: balance. How to c...
Allusive threads to an earlier sensorial world

13 December 2012

We’re surrounded by gifts from the past: stories, poems, buildings, ideas. They constitute our human...
At dusk with the anti-Riesling

12 December 2012

One sniff, and I was back. Deep, sweet red fruits, streaked with a little tar and dusted with cinnam...
Bad Deal

11 December 2012

We French know that we are basically ungovernable. There’s no hope for anyone whose policies contrad...
On Porridge and Pinot Noir

06 December 2012

We may be the world’s greatest omnivore, but collectively humanity eats remarkably few different foo...
Heart to Heart

05 December 2012

I always carry a spare heart in case of need. When a wine doesn’t say something to stir the one I wa...