Willi Klinger was Angelo Gaja’s right hand man from 2000 to 2006. Here are his most memorable restaurants in the Langhe region of Piedmont, updates from the previous edition of this list in...

Richard Corrigan (seen here in his younger days at The Lindsay House, Soho) has just opened Corrigan’s Mayfair and, fortunately, the food is a lot less confusing than the location. For...

I have been delightfully catching up on some of the 2007 whites that I have not so far reported on in this extensive survey of German 2007s and Alsace 2007s . I’m particularly glad to...

In the third and last of our profiles of great fortified wines, Richard Hemming looks at one of the most exciting producers of Madeira. (The Madeira wine scene has been immeasurably impoverished...

For me the sweetest smell in recent memory is that of cheese straws through floorboards. I was in the basement of a house in Islington, North London, one of a dozen tasters rating anonymous...

The pleasure of being back in Ballymaloe House, 30 miles south-east of Cork in southern Ireland, after 27 years was accentuated when Darina Allen pointed to my place at the dinner table and said,...

“In Venice, what you’re most likely to find, when you walk into a bar, is a glass of Prosecco,” started Charles Metcalfe, who recently led a tutored Prosecco tasting at the...

Dodie Miller has been the attractive and passionate conduit for distributing the most authentic Mexican ingredients to both professional and amateur chefs across the UK for the past 15 years....

[Image changed in response to popular, horrified demand. I  trust the complainers will back me up if I am sued by the photographer over it.] I met wine-loving dental hygienist Susan Cooper...

“I’m a real Chianti girl”, proudly claimed Emanuela Stucchi Prinetti, owner of highly acclaimed Tuscan estate Badia a Coltibuono. Dressed all in black, with dark hair pulled back, this...

See related thread in Members' forum On Monday, Heston Blumenthal unveiled some brand new research into sherry and food-matching. His famed scientific approach has resulted in some...

This line up of more than 50 wines from one of Europe's less well-known wine producing countries came about thanks to the enthusiastic response of a purple pager to a trip to Luxembourg...

See related thread in Members' forum   In this collection of 77 wines offered this autumn by Sainsbury’s, one of Britain’s biggest supermarket chains locked in mortal combat with the...

Britain ’s Co-op stores may not be the most glamorous supermarkets in the land but they are the most active in giving their customers maximum information, and that includes ingredient...

In a nutshell : France's most varied, and neglected, wine region. Most wines noticeably crisp. Main grapes (going downriver): Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Franc, Gamay,...