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DRINKING CULTURE: The Future of English Wine
By Michael Smith, Borough Wines I have seen the future of English wine, and it’s up the road in Peasmarsh. It’s natural, it’s experimental, and it is delicious in ways…
DRINKING CULTURE: Vive les Soiffeurs!
Michael Smith Natural wine has brought a sea-change with it. It forces you to re-evaluate many of your assumptions about what makes good wine good; some of these assumptions so…
DRINKING CULTURE: A Cheeky Vermouth
Michael Smith Now people are making their first tentative steps towards the beach again, the cliff behind our house has gone white with blossom and our shop has started getting…
DRINKING CULTURE: “This wonderful invention, sir, is called a Sherry Cobbler”
BY MICHAEL SMITH The theme for this week’s food and drinks pages was ‘restorative’ and as Lady Luck would have it, I’d just been experimenting with a veritable balm of…