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So it goes… This week's decent drinking

Sibella is out to dinner with her golfing chums. Which is why I’m tucking into bacon ribs, cannellini beans (no butter beans down the local deli) and Savoy cabbage, the sort of fare I always find for myself when milady is absent as she’s far too ‘refeened’ to partake of that good ole peasanty grub.

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No more Sham Champagne?

The CIVC (the Champagne producers’ regulatory body) and other European wine and food trade organisations are engaged in complex and delicate negotiations with US producers to work out how best to protect the use of European semi-generic brand names such as Champagne, Chablis, Sherry, Chianti, Bordeaux, Cheddar, Stilton and many others. Apparently there’s twice as

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