Category: Miscellaneous

On the table: Bonhams Restaurant

This month Cellar Plan Manager Tom Cave visits the restaurant at renowned auction house Bonhams, where faultless service and classic cuisine impress our discerning diner The reluctance of old to allow patrons to bring their own wines to a restaurant and pay a respectable “corkage” charge is gradually being chipped away as, perhaps due to […]

… Plus c’est la même chose

Responding to Will Lyons’s article, Chairman Simon Berry argues that to discover the future of wine, one need look only to its past When I took over the editorship of Number Three magazine from my father in the early 1980s, I persuaded him to write a regular column. Entitled, not very imaginatively, “Then & Now”, […]

Plus ça change

From new technology to the impact of climate change, author, journalist and fine wine specialist Will Lyons takes a view on what lies ahead in the wine world “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” reads the famous opening of LP Hartley’s evocative novel The Go-Between, in which the narrator, returning […]

The six best wines you’ve never tried

If 2017 already has you in a wine-drinking rut, Paul Keating – Wine Advisor in our Warehouse Shop – has the cure: six thoroughly unusual and utterly delicious bottles. Here he explains just why they’re worth trying As the New Year unfolds, so too should a new perspective on the world of wine. I’m sure […]