Claudia Pendred, a talented veteran of the Pol Roger Business School Alumni blind tasting competitio n, is currently stationed in Bucharest and sends this second report on some of Romania's...

In a nutshell : Seriously underdeveloped. Main grapes : Feteasca Alba, Feteasca Regala, Welschriesling, Tamiioasa (white); Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot (red). Romania has great...

Romania has about 180,000 hectares (c 445,000 acres) under vine, down from a pre-war peak of 240,000 but only about a quarter of that area produces wines of commercial quality; much of it is for...

The other day I had the pleasure of trying six wines from a UK wine merchant that comprised a Moravian from the Czech Republic, two Greeks, a Romanian, a southern Italian, and one from Peter...

5 Jan - See comments from Australia in the box below. Claudia Pendred is a British banker, wine lover and regular star performer in the annual Pol Roger business school alumni...

I walked through the covered area of Kirkgate market in the centre of Leeds where fish stalls display razor clams, large conger eel, tilapia from the Indian subcontinent and turbot from the...