#22 The difficult second album

 

Shedding light on wines from Catalonia and Jurançon, as well as the often underestimated Aligoté from Burgundy.

 

From Els Jelepins and Pepe Raventos to Sylvain Pataille and the ultra-cult Clos Joliette, they tell us the story of some of Europe's most exciting estates.

 

Meet the "cellar hedonist", novelist and wine writer Jay

McInerney.

Visit to Epernay to sample a bottle of Pol Roger 1895 recently unearthed from the site of the estate's historic cellar collapse in 1900, where they ask how the wines age.

Looking back on 150 years of Soho restaurant culture, and Suzanne Moore celebrates the infamous Gay Hussar of Greek St. Famous in its day as the haunt of many conspiratorial politicians, it will reopen as Noble Rot Soho in late spring 2020.

Articles on the Ballymaloe Cooking School, the 30th anniversary of Marco Pierre White's White Heat and Emilia-Romagna gastronomy, plus reviews, recipes and thoughts from Simon Hopkinson, Marina O'Loughlin, Alastair Little , Andrew Jefford, Stephen Harris, Tom Brown, Russell Norman, Rowley Leigh, George Reynolds, Zeren Wilson, Simon J Woolf, Nina Caplan, Henry Harris, Morgan Dunn and John Niven, among many others...