INTERVIEWS WITH A WINE EXPERT: the new Spanish wine 'scape'
Lenka Sedlackova MW, has been in the wine business for over a decade. Based in London, she works with one of the best UK importers Fields, Morris & Verdin. She is the ...
Ornellaia: liquid modern Italian icon immortalised through art
Tenuta dell'Ornellaia makes one of the iconic Super Tuscan wines made from the French - typically Bordeaux grape varietals - in the Italian region of Maremma. This corner of Tuscany ...
Tenuta San Guido: setting new elite game for Tuscan wines with Sassicaia
Sassicaia has sparked a revolution Italy with its Cabernet-based Vino de Tavola (table wine) made in up-to-that-time-yet-unexplored Maremma region of coastal Tuscany. Today, this is perhaps the country's most wanted wine ...
Martin Beratasegui: Basque bounty blessed with stars
More Michelin stars than for any Spanish chef still shine on the Basque native Martin Beratasegui. Unlike with the rest of his Iberian empire, he ultimately leads his eponymous restaurant ...
Osteria Francescana: contemporary Italian storytelling featuring Modena's best ingredients
Massimo Bottura is the genius of contemporary Italian cuisine. We were so mesmerized by his food, that Osteria Francescana became the first three-Michelin-starred restaurant at which we dined twice in ...
Bartolo Mascarello: defending tradition in Barolo through art and wine
The late Bartolo Mascarello was not just a classic Piedmontese winemaker, but also a gifted artist. Alongside Mascarello's impeccable long-ageing wines, he was celebrated for his self-designed labels, some of ...
Giacomo Conterno: delayed gratification in purely traditional Barolo
Giacomo Conterno was at his time ahead of the other producers of Barolo. Inspired by his father Giovanni, who was one of the first Barolo producers to bottle his wine ...
Cantina Rivella Serafino: making wine with love at home in Barbaresco
The recurrent characteristic foggy views from the house cantina stretch lazily over the noble slopes of their single cru Montestefano ...
Les Trois Vallées dining guide: luxuriate in Courchevel, Méribel and Val Thorens
Whether you have just embarked on your ski trip to the Alps or you plan to breeze into the oxygen-thin Les Trois Vallées mountains soon, my tips on where to eat ...
