Today marks the start of the Big Smoke’s annual celebration of wine, and with hundreds of events and offers on around the city, we highlight the ones we’ll be making a beeline for This year’s London Wine Week “hub” is Flat Iron Square – drop by for jeroboams of Pol Roger, white Port and tonic […]

As the British Library dedicates a season of events to food, Sophie Thorpe finds out how science is changing the way we eat and drink “I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus, we do not know what goes […]

Recently across our social media channels we’ve been championing some of our personal wine favourites, as reviewed by our in-house team. This week it’s the turn of Alexis Self to cast his view on a bottle of 2015 Old Plains Longhop Cabernet Sauvignon, from Australia’s Mount Lofty Ranges Our antipodean cousins are famed for their straight-talking […]

As we officially kick off all things summer this week, we dive into opening the first of our 12 essential summer wines – our Own Selection Provence Rosé. We ask Wine and Spirits Education Specialist Barbara Drew to don her rosé-tinted spectacles and explain the different ways of making wine pink Looking out the window at […]