‘show up to that dinner with a 3-litre of anything and you are dionysus’

One of my clients – glamorous, fast-talking, smart, Irish – works as a pharmacist in one of London’s biggest hospitals. She’s the sort of woman who, for as long as I’ve known her, has marked the end o

The pleasures and challenges of making – and describing – great wines

New drinks and tipples to try

If any grape can be described as producing the Marmite of wine styles, it’s sauvignon blanc: you either love it or you hate it. This herbaceous, citrussy white goes from rustic, light workhorse in Fra

This month, our fitness expert Annie Deadman talks about how your summer of excess could be playing havoc with your waistline

The majority of Switzerland’s wine is made in the French-speaking part of the country. The Rhône rises high in the Alps and transverses Valais, the largest wine region, before it flows into France. Im