Drinks

The CIA (Italian Farmers Confederation) is worried. The Chinese predilection for wine is growing, and so is their wine production. The alarming news is that they are keen to export.

As woman who lives half the time on a diet and the other half reading about diets, I am all for anything that helps…a low-cal wine? Is that possible? Or…

On Saturday I had quite an experience. We were invited to dinner over at the Mayor’s house. He is a true connoiseur and does not drink wine every day, only on special occasions. So our visit apparently qualified.

The wine columnists at the Wall Street Journal had some deep insight into the wine-lover’s psyche. When you have a rather precious bottle in your cellar, insecurity and doubt rear…

No. Not Moses’ great tablets. These commandments attempt to put some order into our otherwise chaotic winestyles. Have a read, they are fun: The First Commandment

For our reference, here is a “Basic Dictionary of the Wine language”. This glossary was prepared by the people at www.wine.com.

What do you give the person who has everything? Well, even if he or she doesn’t have everything, provided they enjoy wine, Natalie Mac Lean from Nat Decants has put…

Mondovino. Have you seen it yet? It is a documentary film about wine, a French-American production directed by Jonathan Nossiter. It is encouraging that a film without a car chase…

I was looking at some beautiful crystal decanters and wondered …should I get one of these for my collection of wine related implements? Is it any good to pour the…