Don't expect to be able to contact anyone in the London wine trade this afternoon. A memorial mass is being said for Patrick Sandeman at 3 pm at Farm Street Catholic church in the West End....

Master of Wine Nicolas Belfrage, veteran importer of Italian wines into the UK and author of several important books on Italian wine, notes with some exasperation, 'If there was an exciting new...

See the more detailed tribute, Saluting Patrick Sandeman . Many of us in the UK heard vaguely in the national news of a most unusual collision of skydivers, one in his 50s and one in his 20s,...

Yesterday afternoon, as reported here , a very moving memorial mass for 53-year-old wine merchant Patrick Sandeman of Lea & Sandeman was held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception,...