WINE OF THE WEEK: Stapleton & Springer Orange Pinot Noir 2014, Czech Republic
£13.75, or £12.50 in any 12-bottle mix, Lea & Sandeman This is one of the most unusual and delicious wines I’ve come across in ages...
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- Mar 13, 2016
Chocolate: Spiced Chocolate Nut Terrine
This needs a couple of hours to chill, but apart from that it’s a doddle to prepare and is not cooked. It works equally well with...
- Mar 10, 2016
WINE OF THE WEEK: Foremost Syrah 2015, Hawkes Bay
£8.99, Lidl This is from Lidl’s Easter wine cellar collection and is worth snapping up before the limited stocks disappear – even if...
- Mar 7, 2016
Chocolate: Chocolate Chip Biscuits
These light-textured shortbread-like biscuits go down well with everyone from tinies through to nineties, probably because they are less...
- Mar 3, 2016
WINE OF THE WEEK: Terres de Moraines Madiran 2012
£7–£9, Marks & Spencer Madiran from southwest France is definitely one of France’s wilder, more rugged red wines. If you’ve bumped into...
- Mar 1, 2016
Chocolate: Dark Chocolate Orange Mousse
This may lack sophistication as a strategy, but experience has shown that there are two surefire ways to success when giving a lunch or...
- Feb 29, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Tips and Extras
Fortify yourself with… A bottle of madeira and a bottle of Australian liqueur muscat or PX (pedro ximenez) sherry. •Use the madeira for...
- Feb 28, 2016
Blend it like Johnson... or making the most of leftovers
As I said a few weeks back, in what turned out to be my most popular Tweet ever @joannasimon, England’s chief medical officer and I...
- Feb 26, 2016
WINE OF THE WEEK: Allegracore 2014, Etna Rosso
£19.50, Tanners shops and tanners-wines.co.uk Who wouldn’t be drawn to a wine called Allegracore – happy heart, named after the spot...
- Feb 25, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Fish en Papillote with Vermouth
An effortless way to cook whole fish, either one per person or sharing. Just put the fish in a foil parcel with herbs and liquor and put...
- Feb 21, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Petits Pots de Chocolate
Aka irresistible chocolate mousse with rum. It's another simple classic that we could all be making instead of more elaborate cakes. And...
- Feb 18, 2016
WINE OF THE WEEK: Seven Springs Vineyards Chardonnay 2012, Overberg
£13.99–£14.99, Dylans Wines, L'Art du Vin, The Square Wine Company There are times when only Chardonnay will do as far as I’m concerned....
- Feb 17, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Garlicky Prawns Flambéd in Whiskey
Irish whiskey may sound unlikely, but trust me. Ideally you should buy live prawns and cook them yourself, but I’ve been known to use...
- Feb 11, 2016
WINE OF THE WEEK: Oeil de Perdrix Rosé Champagne
£19.99, or £17.99 in any 6 bottles, Majestic Initially I resisted choosing this Champagne on the grounds that a) pink Champagne is too...
- Feb 10, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Syllabub
Why aren’t we all eating syllabub? It’s a breeze to make and delicious. This one, based on Elizabeth David’s classic Everlasting...
- Feb 5, 2016
WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Joseph Burrier Saint-Amour Côte de Besset 2013
£14.50, The Wine Society I’m not sure whether I’m killing two birds with one stone or multi-tasking, but this week’s wine doubles up as...
- Feb 2, 2016
Boozy Food with Spirits: Tuna Ceviche with Vodka and Lime
Far be it from me to suggest that anyone should find cooking with wine in Britain off-puttingly expensive, but I do concede that, thanks...
- Jan 30, 2016
Boozy Food with Wine: Tips and Extras
Look up the recipe for Coq au Vin in Larousse and it advises using a Chambertin or a Mercurey. Helpful or what? A Chambertin will set you...
- Jan 28, 2016
WINE OF THE WEEK: Trizanne Signature Shiraz Grenache 2013, Swartland
£9.99, Waitrose With changeable weather and diets swinging this way and that, you may easily want a crisp, reviving wine one minute and...
- Jan 28, 2016
What I admire about wine: integrity, authenticity, purity and character
Stop Press! 14 April, 2016: I'm delighted to report that these wines are now available at £19.95 per bottle from winesensations.co.uk...
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