Marks and Slender – lower alcohol and best buy wines at M&S Christine Austin November 18, 2017 Drink, Wine If you are watching your weight but still want to enjoy a good glass of wine then three new wines on the shelves at Marks and Spencer might be of interest. Sumika Sauvignon Blanc, Sumika Shiraz and Sumika...
95% Pub of the Week: Cow & Calf Amanda Wragg November 7, 2017 Drink, Pub reviews All together now: On Ilkla Moor baht ’at ...
Women’s Libations – positive discrimination in a glass Christine Austin October 30, 2017 Drink, Wine The wine department in a supermarket used to be referred to as the ‘husband’s playpen’. This was generally regarded as a safe place to leave men while the wife dashed around the rest of the store,...
Quaff Licence – What’s in store at Aldi and Lidl Christine Austin October 26, 2017 Drink, Wine There was total shock on the High Street as earlier this year Lidl gradually overhauled Waitrose in the supermarket stakes. It joined Aldi which had moved up the pecking order a year ago pushing Waitrose down...
Detour de Force – take a trip to Booths Christine Austin October 25, 2017 Drink, Wine As a retailer, the Northern chain of Booths, with just 28 stores is a minnow in a sea of sharks. Compared with the 6000 Tesco outlets, Aldi’s 700 and even Waitrose’s 355, Booths seems more like a chain of...
Flowing Cape – Top wines from South Africa Christine Austin October 10, 2017 Drink, Wine Regular readers of this column know just how much I love South Africa. Not just because you can fly there overnight leaving cold British weather far behind and have breakfast in Cape sunshine. What I love most...
Millionaire’s Roe – Caviar and Champagne Christine Austin September 27, 2017 Drink, Food, Wine How often have you tasted caviar? I’m not talking about the odd few tiny sprinkles of black dots that sometimes appear on top of up-market canapés. The caviar I am referring to comes in half-kilo cans of...
Hail be to Soave Christine Austin September 21, 2017 Drink, Wine The sky turned from blue to black in just a few minutes and as we headed down the mountain, huge hailstones, the size of conkers, rained down on the car. We sheltered under a large tree, although this was not...
70% Pub of the Week: The Wellington Dave Lee September 19, 2017 Drink, Pub reviews Run by Russell and Sarah Jeffrey for the last 20-odd years, the Wellington is the sort of solid, stable, well-drilled foodie pub that you more usually find in the Dales or North York Moors.
100% Pub of the Week: The Pub, Todmorden Amanda Wragg September 12, 2017 Drink, Pub reviews What do you do when you’ve taken voluntary redundancy from working as a children’s centre manager? Why, open a micropub in a busy market town, of course