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Ransomes Dock wins AA Wine List of the Year

The London restaurant trade seems to thrive on change. While a few of the classic ground-breaking restaurants of the eighties and early nineties are still in existence, very few are still under the same ownership or management. Not so Ransomes...

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Blinding Brunello

Giugi Sesti is quite simply our favourite Brunello producer. Charming and idiosyncratic, he is a true renaissance man who knows as much about art and astronomy as about wine. He oversees his Brunello estate from his hilltop winery and in...

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Stop Press: Burgundy Dinner October 21st 2008

It should be an easy thing to organise a wine dinner – after all we’ve been doing it for years. And even if we say so ourselves, we’re pretty good at it. But we had not bargained for the vast...

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Dolcetto d'Alba Vigna Scot Cavallotto Fratelli 2006

Love him or hate him, there is no doubting Robert Parker’s influence and experience. His Wine of the Day today is Cavallotto Fratelli’s Dolcetto d’Alba Vigna Scot 2005.  

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A French Revolution?

A recent study (picked up by the ever-watchful Jancis Robinson on her excellent website) by the Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University proposes a revolution to the 1855 Classification.

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