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Italian wine is not as well understood in Hong Kong as it should or could be, according to Berry Brothers & Rudd Hong Kong Managing Director Nicholas Pegna.
BBR wants to help change that, and...
Accompanying Hong Kong Scottish RFC to the Melrose Sevens for their competitive debut, I was present on the Friday at the splendidly organized Veterans Tens tournament. This featured household names...
Argentina, like Chile, is working hard to trade up. More expensive wines are being made, particularly from Malbec which has become established as the country’s signature red wine grape.
But in...
In my very first contribution to this illustrious publication, I mentioned that prior to the reinvention of the malt whisky industry a request in a good lounge bar in Scotland for a single malt would...
“We love to laugh and have a sing song, such a happy crowd are we, we’re all pals together, the minors of the ABC.”
This was the happy song emanating from cinemas around the UK...
Growing up in the sixties and seventies, we Scots were full of ourselves – and with no small justification, as we built on Harold McMillan’s “never had it so good” years. Our...
In the course of writing the first two articles for this esteemed publication I have come to realize that the whisky is only a part, albeit a glorious part, of the equation. With this in mind,...
Famed Scottish author, Iain Banks, was delighted to discover upon landing in Port Ellen on Islay that the first road sign he encountered was made up one hundred per cent of distillery names: Ardbeg...
When I was asked to write about some of my favourite malt whiskies I began to consider which one should be given pride of place and very soon encountered the problem that all namers of favourites...
Let me start at one of the most amazing wine cellars in the world: Robuchon a Galera, at the Hotel Lisboa in the heart of Macau. We all know that Robuchon is fantastic; it is the only French...