Month: September, 2016

The great and the Guild

Ahead of tomorrow’s Cape Winemakers Guild auction, Chris Pollington shares a little of the CWG’s history, purpose and power – responsible as it is for and nurturing new talent and putting South Africa’s producers in the limelight. The Cape Winemakers Guild was set up in 1982 to improve the quality and standards of South African […]

On the table: Typing Room

This month we sent Adam Holden out of his comfort zone, forcing him to abandon the city centre to seek out one of East London’s very best restaurants – Bethnal Green’s much-acclaimed Typing Room. There’s been a marked shift in the London food and drink scene in the last 10 years or so, a seemingly […]

From deepest, darkest Peru

Drinks writer Amanda Barnes is undergoing a mammoth project to capture the wine world as it stands today, in 80 harvests. Here she reports from Peru, a historic producer knocked down by its colonial ruler, and home to much, much more than Pisco. It might not be the first wine-producing country you think of in […]

A Michaelmas goose

With Michaelmas just a week away, our Head Chef Stewart Turner provides the perfect goose recipe to celebrate the turning of the seasons, a rich roasted bird with an apple and blackberry jus. We have been having Michaelmas dinners for about the past six years at Berry Bros. & Rudd. Cooking a goose to mark […]