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‘Welcome to Platinum’s wine club and monthly column where we learn all about wine with our resident expert Elizabeth Hawthornthwaite. Whether you’re a swirl-and-sniff aficionado or you still secretly

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April is one of the best months to visit Tuscany. The countryside is lush and green, spring has arrived, vineyards are waking up and wildflowers spill across the hills. It’s postcard-perfect Tuscany,

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The award-winning novelist on raw fish, pickled cucumber and Champagne, and drinking Latour ’85 on Hampstead Heath from a tin mug