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Features21 Sep 2023
Floral Flavors: Exploring Edible Flowers in Cuisine
Forget bouquets; there are many more ways to say it with flowers. Carol Wright describes the countless ways edible flowers can be used in food The Chinese ate flowers back in 3000 BC; Persians nibbled …
Features29 Aug 2023
Napa Valley’s Los Carneros Appellation – Pinot Noir Heaven
Mira Advani Honeycutt discovers heavenly Pinots in a slice of traditional Cabernet Sauvignon country California’s Napa Valley is renowned for its world-class Cabernet Sauvignon wines, rivaling those of Bordeaux in quality and price. Cab is …
Features29 Aug 2023
Indian whiskies to the fore, keep these in your drinks cabinet
Indian single malt whiskies have come into their own winning international awards. Here, Gagan Sharma lists the whiskies to keep in your drinks cabinet If there is a drink to mark India’s progress since independence, …
Features28 Aug 2023
Bordeaux 2022 A Collectors Vintage. A Personal Story
Namratha Prashanth shares her personal experience of the wines at the 2022 En Primeur tastings in April There was a certain buzz in the air as we entered. We were a team of four tasting …
Features02 Aug 2023
Spring frost – A Burgundian winemaker’s battle
Raymond Blake on winemakers’ battle against dreaded spring frosts in Burgundy – just one of the many nasty curveballs that nature hurls from time to time Puligny-Montrachet. White wine doesn’t get more patrician than this. …
Features02 Aug 2023
Liquid Gold – Tokaji Aszu dessert wine
Tokaji Aszú is a sweet botrytised wine from northeastern Hungary, prized by connoisseurs around the world. Elizabeth Gabay reports Known as the “king of wines and the wine of kings”, the botrytised sweet, golden wines …
Features27 Jun 2023
Valpolicella, a unique style of wines from Italy
Michèle Shah gives us the lowdown on one of Italy’s best-loved wine regions and its unique Valpolicella style of wines Valpolicella in Veneto, is a wine producing territory which sits at the foothills of the …
Features28 May 2023
M. Chapoutier, The Legacy of a Dynasty
Ashika Mathew traces the story of M Chapoutier, a dynamic wine dynasty that has stood the test of time. The legacy of a dynasty can be a heavy burden to carry forward as progressive generations …
Features28 May 2023
A Rosé is a Rosé is a Rosé, or is there more to it?
Or is it? The famous quotation from Gertrude Stein doesn’t quite stand up when applied to Rosé wines today. A good rosé has a lot to offer says Elizabeth Gabay. Rosé has had plenty of …
Features17 May 2023
The rapid rise of Sangiovese in India
Once the Sangiovese bug bites you, it’s hard to get rid of it. The surge in its popularity in the past few decades, through the reinvention and rapid rise of Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino …
Features20 Apr 2023
The Legacy of a Languedoc Patriarch
On the story of Mas de Daumas Gassac, in the Aniane commune of Languedoc and its founder, Aimé Guibert Ten years ago, on a driving holiday around the south of France, I visited Mas de …
Features19 Apr 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Wine Descriptors
So what is AI? Whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, AI is already a part of our lives. AI is how Alexa or Siri work to understand the context …