I should probably start this by saying that I love a wine tasting. I have my wine qualifications, I host them myself and I will happily spend an evening talking about what is in my glass, so this isn't me suggesting we all pack away the tasting notes and call it a day, however, I want to question how we get more people interested in wine, particularly those who would never consider themselves "wine people", and I'm not convinced that inviting them to another wine tasting is a

As harvests get earlier and grapes get riper, what happens to the world's most famous fizz? If you've been following the wine news over the past few weeks, there have been a lot of reports regarding Champagne, specifically around early harvests and alcohol content. I wanted to share my finding and thoughts on this too. After heatwaves, drought and severe spring frosts, grapes were being picked from 6 August in some vineyards. By 17 August harvesting was widespread across the

As a millennial woman, I feel like we’ve already lived through an era where being as small as possible was sold to us as the ultimate goal. We watched celebrities’ bodies be picked apart on the front pages of magazines. We were told which foods were “good” and which were “bad”. We grew up in a culture where losing weight was almost always met with a compliment, regardless of how that weight was lost, and personally, I’m not particularly interested in going back there. Yet ski