This month our Head Chef Stewart Turner highlights the versatility of rhubarb, with its mouth-watering balance of sweet and sour, while Demetri Walters MW suggests the wines which work with the season’s slender stems. On the table: Rhubarb comes in two distinct styles – the hardy outdoor-grown, and the delicate “forced” or Champagne rhubarb, which […]

Much of the pleasure of a skiing holiday is found in the all-important pit stops, with essential refuelling (particularly with the scantily clad slopes of the recent season). As a wintry chill runs up the spine of the country, Ben Thomson muses the bottles that best partner a day on the slopes. One of the […]

Following on from yesterday’s post, Mark Pardoe MW – our Wine Buying Director – steps into the ring, appealing to the head and heart as he claims wine’s worth at Christmas. It always seems to me that complex spirits – by which I mostly mean Cognac, Armagnac and Scotch whisky – are meditative drinks, savoured […]

As 25th December approaches, Barbara Drew, a member of our expert Wine School team, offers some wise words on how to keep Christmas chaos at bay – and the wine flowing. The table piled high with a hefty bird, plus trimmings; a constant battle to avoid flaming more than the Christmas pud as paper hats […]