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Helen Savage

Message in a bottle on Fairtrade offerings

JUST like handbags and sunglasses, wine has its designer labels. Malcolm Gluck tells the story of a wine importer from Singapore, who having splashed out £5,000 for a bottle of Chateau Petrus, made sure that it was prominently displayed on his table, but then proceeded to ‘enhance’ his glass with Pepsi. He admitted, Malcolm relates, to not liking the taste of red wine. Read

Sicily keeps getting better

SICILY produces a lot of wine, nearly as much as Portugal, but it’s largely nothing to write home about. Read

Beer with Alastair Gilmour

Alastair Gilmour

Tyne for a pint

ALE plus arithmetic equals chaos. If our summing-up is as it should be we estimate that over the past two centuries some 400 breweries have hugged the River Tyne. Read

Beer with a sting

GORDON Sumner, The Entertainer and urtica dioica deserve some respect. Next week is National Be Nice To Nettles Week, a Sting-orientated love-in which coincidentally heralds the return of a seasonal ale. Read

Bill Oldfield

Bill Oldfield

Online and off message

IT’S a good thing they’ve finally painted the Forth Bridge with a special paint which means that now, for the first time since it was built, they don’t have to start all over again immediately they finish. Read

Carrot and stick beats ranting

BEING in the food industry, you’d expect me to believe in the carrot and stick approach to management, but not everybody in my position seems to agree. Read

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