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Wine on Substack

Pint of your finest champagne, please!

Tour of duty

You down with LBV, yeah you know me.

The joy of ordinary wine

Ordering wine in a restaurant

What I’m actually drinking for Christmas… probably

Sunday Drinking: 3 December 2023

A tribute to Russell Norman

Soho drinking clubs

An Oddbins education

Correction: Tenterden talk is on Sunday 12 November

The ubiquitous gilet

Sunday Drinking: 5 November

East End Pubs

Awakening the sleeping giant of Italian wine

Sunday Drinking: 23 October

I hear the booze a-calling

Sex, drugs and Mateus Rosé

Wine habit

In praise of the Negroni

Sunday Drinking: 17 September

Randall Grahm and the magic of grenache

Britpop now

The Home Bar: a missed opportunity

2023: a bumper year for English wine?

Sunday drinking: 20 August

Maraschino history

Publication day!

Sunday Drinking: 23 July

From a joke to really quite good

Cocktail chatter

Sunday Drinking: 2 July

Vintners' Tales revisited

Sunday Drinking: 25 June

All in the best possible taste

Avez-vous un champagne anglais?

Broadbent vs Martin: the tasting note showdown

Sunday Drinking: 4 June

The wine diary

Two of the best wine books

Sunday Drinking: 21 May

The Judgement of Paris 47 years on

John le Carré and the White Lady

The tyranny of wine

Sunday Drinking: 7 May

Not another English wine book!

Sunday Drinking: 30 April

Empire of Booze is back!

Sunday Drinking: 23 April

Degustation of Tunbridge Wells

Sunday drinking: 16 April

Wine and war

Did Jesus drink wine?

Sunday Drinking: 2 April

Master and Commandaria

Sunday drinking: 26 March

Armenian brandy: the Johnnie Walker Black Label of the East

Sunday drinking: 19 March

Whisky is for everyone (as long as you have enough money)

The wine that came in from the cold

Coming soon