Cheers to corkscrews!
I never leave home without one
Henry Jeffreys
Tuesday
Tuesday
Keith McNally’s memoir is strangely unappetizing
I didn’t enjoy I Regret Almost Everything
Monday
The romantic return of Florence’s wine windows
Italians, normally so keen to hug and kiss each other, have been forced into social distancing, and it has given the wine windows a new lease of life
Thursday
From Stalin’s poetry to Saddam’s romances: the terrible prose of tyrants
‘Reading makes the world better. It is how humans merge. How minds connect… Reading is love in action.’ Those are the words of the bestselling author Matt Haig and though I wouldn’t put it quite like that, I too feel that there is something inherently good about reading. Daniel Kalder has no such illusions. His
Thursday
The lost art of Roman winemaking
Taste has a well-noted ability to evoke memory, so it is curious how infrequently most wine writers mine their pasts for inspiration. You wouldn’t think that some had ever fallen in love, read a novel or even got drunk. Instead they obsess over scores, sulphur and diurnal temperature variation. Thank heavens for Nina Caplan, who
