At yesterday's 59th Oxbridge wine-tasting competition, Oxford won quite decisively after a run of wins by Cambridge. They fielded the top two tasters of the match, including Ren Lim (pictured as...

While researching tomorrow's article on wine's extraordinary invasion of Asia for the Financial Times and Free for all on the site, I contacted Kingsley Liu in Hong Kong, a Purple pager...

28 May - You might  like to know that Oxford got their revenge at Bollinger in Champagne in April, as described in James Flewellen's blog . The crews in today's Varsity Boat Race...

Wednesday saw the 58th Oxford v Cambridge wine-tasting match sponsored by Pol Roger. It was so dramatic and revealed such interesting characters that I have been persuaded to devote one of my...

Yesterday Hugh Johnson and I acted as judges in the annual Oxford v Cambridge wine tasting match for students at these rival universities. The teams had to identify as closely as possible 12...