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Floral Flavors: Exploring Edible Flowers in Cuisine
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 …

Napa Valley’s Los Carneros Appellation –  Pinot Noir Heaven
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 …

Bordeaux 2022 A Collectors Vintage. A Personal Story
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 …

Spring frost – A Burgundian winemaker’s battle
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. …

Liquid Gold
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 …

Valpolicella, a unique style of wines from Italy
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 …

M. Chapoutier, The Legacy of a Dynasty
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 …

The rapid rise of Sangiovese in India
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 …

The Legacy of a Languedoc Patriarch
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 …

Artificial Intelligence and Wine Descriptors
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 …