Recipes, reviews, farms and tables
"Looking at the bottle, with its olde worlde label and dark green hue, I felt as if I were going in to see my bank manager, or for a job interview"
"I smiled back. I felt dirt smear across my teeth. I guess no wine tasting today"
"We are not very focused on marketing. Vinification is the key for us, and all the rest is bullshit…"
"I am not here to be right: I am here as a friend who wants you to put nice things in your mouth"
"Drinkable diamonds, liquid money, tipsy happiness, champagne is a party in my mouth and a gift in a bottle"
"One question still vexes me, year in, year out. Where can I take my parents for dinner in London?"
"You feel for the can’t-decide crowd who check the menu outside, assess the cheery downstairs room through the windows, and then are led upstairs"
"When told, drop everything and get the hell out, fast"
"I want the person responsible for cooking my dinner to be a proper fatty, experienced in gluttony"
"Chefs all wear the preposterously tall toque blanche hat, but all of the pomp is lavishly lapped up"
