Food plays an important part in the celebrations, and what better inspiration for your Chinese New Year meal than recipes from celebrity chef Ken Hom‘s books – whether you are planning a quick dinner or a banquet.
It’s Gavi, But Not As You Know It
Luisa discovers the many expressions of this increasingly sought-after white wine from Piedmont, now available in a shop near you.
Festive Fun With Wonderful Wines
With the festive season just weeks away, it’s time to stock up on wines which will see you through to the end of the year in style. Luisa Welch takes a look at what’s on the shelf right now and picks winning wines which won’t break the bank.
Greek Wine Odyssey – Discovering PDO Meliton And PGI Sithonia
Luisa braves the heat and travels to Chalkidiki in Northern Greece where wine production has entered a new era…..
A Rosé summer
Luisa finds that this year we are really having a pink summer, but she much prefers the rose’ wines from Provence than the Barbie pink…..
Argentina’s World-Class Wines
At a recent tasting, Luisa discovered some of the New World’s Oldest World wines Argentina […]
Cutty Sark Whisky: Tea – And Toast
The brand is named after the eponymous ship, the Cutty Sark, a tea clipper which spent its life sailing around the world and was a key player in the Great Tea Races of the late 1800’s.
Pink Valentine
Luisa pulls together a short but sharp list of some of the best Valentine’s Day gift suggestions of the liquid kind, but not only….
Think Sake– Think Niigata at The Japan Centre this month
Each year, Niigata ‘comes to London’ with its fair at the Japan Centre, Europe’s largest Japanese food hall in London’s West End. This year, the Fair runs until the end of January
Healthy Wines? Shurely Shome Mishtake?
It’s January, it’s cold, and you might already be wavering about your New Year Resolutions. Fear not, says Luisa, with her Vegan wind roundup