The 20 best wines for summer
What’s the perfect white or rosé to go with grilled fish? Where can you get a bargain red or fizz for the barbecue? Observer Food Monthly guides you through the season
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Ports of call: a wine tour of the Douro
Portugal’s Douro region is famous for its port, but also produces fine, good-value reds and top nosh. Perfect, then, for thirsty foodies like our writer
10 of the best restaurants in Bordeaux
A new wave of chefs has swept into Bordeaux, propelling the city’s restaurants up France’s culinary pecking order. And they’re serving up at decent prices too
For wine producers, small is beautiful – but big is useful
Size isn’t everything in a vineyard – but it matters
Romancing the bottle
Wine-tasting sounds romantic but Jancis Robinson has seen it go wrong. She shares her tips to avoid disaster
Top tipple: rare whisky outperforms wine and gold as 2015 investment
Leading index for scotch whisky rose 14% last year, while wine fell 0.4%, gold was down 10% and FTSE 100 index lost 4.9%