This rather lovely wine which comes from the Bellingham winery, which is more than 350 years old and located in Franschoek, a short distance from Cape Town. The Bernard Series Basket Press Syrah, 2007 is an excellent wine, a joy to drink and lovely on the palate, it is currently available from Sainsbury’s at £9.99 and worth every penny.

Inspired by last weekend’s festival of speed at Goodwood, the people at Johnnie Walker, a sponsor of the festival, have created two cocktails that you might like to try at home.

British summertime is now in full swing with warm spells of sunny weather continuing, juicy strawberries, long cocktails and of course Wimbledon proceeding ever closer to its finals. Why not invite your friends round to watch the finals with you and treat them to this bottlegreen inspired Wimbledon cocktail.

Having recently attended Taste of London we went to a water and wine harmonisation session with specialist Andeas Larsson and here is what we found.

Father’s Day is approaching rapidly and many of you will be wondering what you might get as a gift for Dad. The Single Malt Whisky Experience might just be what you’re looking for.

Now that the warm weather has arrived – at last!! Why not try one, or all, of these new and refreshing cocktails created using Perrier sparkling mineral water? A great addition to your summer drinks menu, each of the three cocktails, below are easy to make, so you can enjoy all of these refreshing drinks with friends on lazy summer’s days.

This French co-op, produces a range of wines using local grape varieties, many of which they have saved from extinction in order to maintain the originality of their wines. Plaimont wineries all use modern procedures in order to track the grapes from the vine to the bottle, using management software, to enable winemakers to know exactly where the grapes were grown.

You would think that an invitation to attend an event to celebrate 700 years of Armagnac, to learn about its development and production and of course, to sample the wares of the different producers of this French spirit would be something to leap at. Indeed, I did leap at the opportunity and when it got to the tasting part of the afternoon began to remember why I quite often avoid such events……

Russian Standard Gold is Distilled from, what we are told is the finest Russian winter wheat from the southern steppes of Russia and blended with the glacial waters from Lake Ladoga, incorporating Siberian golden roots to provide its soft taste.

As someone whose experience of tequila has been the occasional margarita and one never-to-be-forgotten night of slammers in Puerta Vallarta, I’ve always viewed it as a spirit to be approached with some caution, so a night of tequila with The Tequila Society was one that I was a little apprehensive about.