My prayer for this week is: Please release me from all the wine snobbery and things I learnt from wine experts. After all, wine is

natural for white wines. Now we arrive at Rosh Hashanah. This is the festival where we eat sweet things to wish ourselves a sweet year.

Way back in 1969, Tony Laithwaite and his wife Barbara used to travel to France in a beat up white van, purchase wine and come

Heard the one about the architect, carpenter, handyman and pastry chef I know it does not go quite like the nursery rhyme, ‘the butcher, baker

The Teperberg Winery has recently launched a new look for their wines, across the board. This historic winery therefore completes a process which began a

One of the T shirts most often seen being worn by winemakers carries the slogan: “It takes a lot of beer to make fine wine.”

Maybe the Syrah grape produces wine that does not have the structure of Cabernet Sauvignon, nor the wild perfume of Pinot Noir, but it does

Mr. Durif was born in France but never really succeeded there. He changed his name and travelled to far off lands where he achieved great

THE COVENANT KITCHEN The Covenant Kitchen is a newly published book, for the ‘new Jewish table’. It is a fun read and a great cookbook

I was standing proudly on the Israeli stand at the Prowein wine exhibition in Germany, when I heard someone say: “Well, I suppose we are

In western culture, cheese is normally part of a meal and there is usually a whole course devoted to cheese. The English will normally enjoy