Life & Society: Drink

A public nuisance

Observations on boozing in public

Divine intoxication

Is it OK to have a cocktail while reading the Quran

Southern comfort

Argentina holds the answer to America’s trouble with wine

Pretty in pink

Midsummer haymaking is the perfect prelude to a glass of rosé

Keep it claret

Bordeaux, the wine of Johnson and Hogarth, belongs to the English

Sin and the apple

The temptation of a good vintage Calvados is too great to resist

The profits of plonk

Observations on wine

Everyday pleasures

Marsannay is a French standard, but it’s far from ordinary

Time, gentleman, please

The British pub used to be the heart of the community and a place of male refuge. Now pubs are closing in their hundreds but the government is doing nothing. Is it really last orders?

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The reds are revolting

My affair with the red wines of Australia lasted long after I left its shores. Our love was ruined by the industry’s greed for ever bigger global markets

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