Winemakers of colour

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

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

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

Food has never just been fuel for me because when I was younger, there wasn’t much of it. My first memories are of my father, who would get a Chinese takeaway when he’d sold a painting. The first time

New drinks and tipples to try

If you’d told Emma Lundie 10 years ago she’d one day be running a vineyard, she’d have laughed. At the time, she was living in Islington, raising children, working with human rights charities, and nur