Drink

It is about this time of year that I find my hand moving to the Pinot section of the wine rack. During the hot summer weather I have had my fill of crisp bright whites and while I will continue to enjoy my...

Pubs come in all sorts of guises as I found at the Angel at Topcliffe.

Whoever put pen to paper on the designs for the Three Tuns was hugely inventive. He turned out a Yorkshire version of New York’s celebrated Flatiron Building, in effect, a “wedge of Wensleydale”, triangular, with a point at one end and a flat back at the other

At first it was ‘dry January’, which I don’t really mind.  After the excesses of the festive season everyone’s liver needs a period of rest and recuperation.  And the fact that my family has several...

Rustenberg Chardonnay 2018, South Africa, 14%, Waitrose down from £14.99 to £10.99 until 8 October An elegant, precise, peach and apricot style of wine, with just a hint of oak to round out the flavours....

Very much a pub of two halves, the Travellers Rest sits on the marvellously-named Crimple Lane, right on the edge of the showground in Harrogate.

200 years ago, on September 25 1819, a Yorkshireman from Farsley decided to plant a vineyard in New Zealand. Samuel Marsden, son of a blacksmith had left Yorkshire a few years earlier, as a missionary to...

Bruce Jack Chenin Blanc 2018, South Africa, 13%, Sainsbury down from £7 to £6 until 17 September Fresh crisp, honeysuckle aromas, with white peach and crunchy apple notes on the palate.  Team with...

Steve, the cheery chap from Burnley who delivers a builder’s tonne of logs to my door every winter, is a proper foodie. He asks me if I’ve been to the Glen View up the road, which I haven’t. If you want a straight-up, honest pub-grub feast, it’s the place to go, he says.

‘We get lots of people coming in after their holidays hoping to find the special wine they enjoyed on their trip,’ said Andy Langshaw at Harrogate Wines, ‘and sometimes we have it, or something very...