Although the contents of the menu at Elettaria, the Indian-influenced restaurant opened by chef Akhtar Nawab and two partners earlier this year in New York’s West Village, are highly...

In the second of our collections of tasting notes on some of the great fortified wines, Victoria looks at some of the most venerable sherries on the market. The VOS and VORS...

The most common question I am asked (apart from where on earth I got my funny name from – Precious Bane , by Mary Webb) is, ‘There are so many wines to choose from. How can I learn more...

As India’s middle class has burgeoned, so have the country’s vineyards, even if punitive taxes, a complex distribution system and an extremely embryonic wine culture do little to help the...

The most common question I am asked (apart from where on earth I got my funny name from – Precious Bane , by Mary Webb) is ‘There are so many wines to choose from. How can I learn...

The first meal I shared with Simon Maxwell, Director of the Overseas Development Institute, was dinner in the wood-panelled Hotel Schatzalp in Davos , Switzerland, during the World Economic...

The International Wine Challenge and the even longer-running UK-based International Wine & Spirit Competition have both just announced this year’s results, presumably to coincide with...

See hundreds of tasting notes with scores and suggested drinking dates here . What was extraordinary when tasting hundreds of samples of young 2007 bordeaux earlier this week was how...

Indian restaurants have become a prominent feature of the British landscape over the past 50 years. Most small towns boast a curry or balti house, with or without a tandoor oven, even if some of...

Barbera d'Asti and Barbera del Monferrato Superiore are to be designated DOCG from the 2008 vintage. This elevation to Italy's top rank completes the gentrification of Barbera, a grape...

Christie’s were way ahead of Sotheby’s in the worldwide auction scene in 2007 although Sotheby’s pulled ahead of Christie’s in the US. However, in terms of total US...

See Latour, Harlan, Screaming Eagle, Moss Wood, Vergelegen... for more details of the tastings described below. I host wine tastings reasonably regularly and am used to keeping an...

As described in detail in Mining, wining and dining in Davos , last week's World Economic Forum for me consisted not of solving the world’s problems but tasting some great wine...

As I climbed into the funicular on the way down from the Schatzalp restaurant above Davos, Switzerland, I was joined by someone who, like me, had not been offered the choice of a toboggan ride...

In the space of six months, wine will have taken me to Brazil, China, Korea, Slovenia and a desert in New Mexico – places I never dreamt would be on the itinerary of even the most curious...