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The Churchill connection

Champagne Pol Roger’s fifth generation director, Hubert de Billy, says practice makes perfect when developing your wine palate. We find out why Winston Churchill preferred Pinot Noir blends.

A champagne family

Billecart-Salmon’s sixth generation director, Antoine Roland-Billecart, loves nothing better than to have his hands in the soil. The dapper cognoscenti shares the label’s new vintages.

Bubbly toasts

Want a standout champagne for the festivities? Our wine editor picks her favourites this season.

Smooth as silk

Vermouth appreciation is on the rise, and we can’t get enough of this aromatised wine for our own consumption.

Drink to these festivals

Get ready to clink those glasses at this myriad of events happening in October.

Hot on the trend of craft cocktail bars, these top hotels have one-upped the competition and created impeccable spaces to stay and sip. We survey the coolest hotel bars and the concoctions you want to be seen with.

Home on the Paarl

Old World Marsanne and Grenache grapes are adapting well to South Africa—much like Romanian transplant Razvan Macici, a third generation winemaker who’s put his own roots down in the Southern Hemisphere.

The purity of fruit

By placing the fruit at the forefront of his wines, awardwinning Australian winemaker Neil McGuigan offers quality wine at every price point.

Sniffing for clues

Laurent Ponsot, owner of Burgundy’s Domaine Ponsot, explains how he became a winemaker-turned-detective as he took on a wine scandal that shook Burgundy.