With a few days of fine weather forecast, it’s absolutely imperative to roll out the barbeque one final time this year and use up the last of your briquettes before they end up sitting dolefully in your garage for the next nine months.

Stuck for Father’s Day Ideas ? Our drinks department comes up with some suggestions.

Where has Vinho Verde been all these years? We open a couple of bottles of good stuff and discover that it might be time to look again at these wines of Portugal.

Alan Kingsbury tries the new vintages of Nyetimber English sparkling wines and reckons that they are fit for royalty.

Alan Kingsbury goes off in search of cheap wine and ends up in an Aldi store.

If the formula for making good wine is simple: Soil + Grapes + People; you […]

Alan Kingsbury takes a virtual trip to the northern Adriatic courtesy of three bottles of […]

As part of its flavour forecast for 2012, herb and spice specialist Schwartz has devised two trend-setting cocktails: a light and refreshing watermelon cooler for long, hot days, and a zingy and rich full-bodied lemon blanc cocktail for a big lemon kick.

Tis the season to celebrate and how better than with some fizz? Alan Kingsbury looks at what France has to offer and finds something rather special closer to home too.