The terms Left Bank and Right Bank refer the two parts of the Bordeaux wine region that lie on either side of the River Garonne and the huge Gironde estuary, into which the Rivers Garonne and Dordogne flow. These waters exert a significant influence on both the climate and the soil structures of each sub-region […]

Much of my time at the moment is being spent encouraging wine lovers to participate in Wine Relief, our biennial chance to make a concrete contribution to Comic Relief’s carefully-monitored, life-changing projects in Africa and the UK. My husband Nick Lander and I had the idea of encouraging wine lovers to help others in 1999 […]