Château La Chouette d'OrBergerac

My father worked in the wholesale supply of fruit and vegetables. He would often come home with a box of the day’s best produce, and so I became interested in what was in season. Both my parents often worked late, so cooking dinner to help take some weight off them inspired me to want to learn more. My first kitchen job at age 14 was at a Greek restaurant in Southampton, and it inspired my love for foods of the eastern Mediterranean. Today, I’m lucky to be able to obtain the best produce from ‘O ...

The California-based company, whose flagship brand is Kendall-Jackson, will initially produce vintage and non-vintage sparkling wine at a contract winemaking facility called Defined Wine in Kent. It has purchased a large volume of 2022 base wine from across Kent and Sussex, and Holland will be tasked with turning it into high-quality sparkling wine. Jackson Family Wines is also in the process of acquiring around 26ha in the Crouch Valley, which is located southeast of Chelmsford in Essex. It wil ...

I started to write my thoughts on the vintage as the dust settled from the annual primeur’s week (or month in my case) and when my teeth and lips had finally lost their purple hue – an unsightly image I documented once on Instagram. This year more than 7,000 eager wine tasters were welcomed onto the red carpets of various historic châteaux buildings, past manicured gardens and into beautifully decorated tasting rooms to taste the new batch of baby wines before tucking into lavish spreads, often ...