Marks & Spencer has been one of Britain’s totemic retailers, a relatively upmarket operation that for at least a generation had a stranglehold, if that is not an inappropriate term, on...

Find this wine The family domaine J L Chave is one of the northern Rhône ’s most famous and popular producers – run impeccably for years by Gérard Chave,...

Lyon in eastern France is a paradise for the gastronomically minded and/or the greedy. Of course the restaurants which seem to be on every corner and down every alley are the essential...

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One of the great practical problems for wine lovers and wine professionals is how to travel between wine centres. For the good of the planet we all ought to be letting the train take the...

Willie Lebus, London: I wondered whether your subscribers could help us find a nice unfussy hotel in Paris - and any brasserie/old fashioned restaurant ideas in addition to Nick's...

Rodrigo Mainardi, São Paulo: As far as that perfect bottle for heatwave drinking is concerned, I’d like to add the good old Hunter Valley unwooded Semillon. Some of...

Jamie Taylor, Australia:   I have three days to spare in London and was thinking of flying across to Lyon and then driving through the Burgundy region. Do you have any...

As I waited to hand in my coat at Bellamy’s, the stylish new restaurant which opened on the site of the old Kaspia in Mayfair a month ago, an elegant woman was talking to the receptionist when...

flowers, vine The grapevine flower is not showy, and has little attraction for birds, but it has the normal complement of sepals...

Florence/Pisa   Should you be travelling to Florence via Pisa airport, it's worth knowing that the airport restaurant, while being completely characterless, is very quiet and perfectly...

See inside information for some background. Most of these are for drinking over the next two to three years. I have said whenever I think their active life is shorter or longer. Wines are...

For those fortunate enough to keep a watching eye on the ever changing progression of chefs worldwide there is considerable consensus that the three most culinarily exciting countries at the...

If Australian wine producers had egos (which I rather doubt) they must surely find it much more comfortable to visit the United States, where they are generally regarded as heroes, than Britain....

It's the dirt that makes me love Burgundy so. There's an earthiness about the place that is entirely lacking in France's other great wine region Bordeaux. The people who own Burgundy's...