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Our wine columnist finds solace in a chilled glass of red this autumn

Yorkshire wine is having a moment, who’d have thought it? And there’s no better time than summer to pay a visit to one of the county’s vineyards and meet passionate winemakers

LEISURE

Henry Jeffreys falls in love with the white wines of the Rhône

Not too many years ago, putting the word organic on a wine label would actually lower the price by around 13%. Can you believe it? But then influential voices from Jamie Oliver to The Soil Association

Our childhood beach was made of the finest sand, the sort you get in an egg-timer. I grew up in Morar, a lovely little village on the northwest coast of Scotland. My parents owned a hotel opposite the