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Summer has arrived in the north, albeit late in some parts, and brought with her endless rounds of parties and picnics – all of them celebrating the weather.  Most of us love the beginning of …

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Grapes have been around in Switzerland for a quite a long time – if you think that about 5,000 years ago is a long time, that is.  The first grape seeds found, date back to …

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Chilean wines have become increasingly well known throughout the world – making a significant impact only in the past few decades. The climate here varies from the heat of the dry, rocky, mountainous desert in …

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I hated my first whisky and only tried it again at a tasting years later, by which time I had grown up and rather liked it. Today I’m especially partial to a good Royal Salute …

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And then there was bourbon! Nobody really knows when bourbon was first made and who made it – it could have been Jacob Spears who was the first person to label his tipple ‘Bourbon whiskey’, …

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Cachaça is well known to yuppies and lushes all over the world – especially those with weakness for caipirinha. It’s a pretty strong alcoholic liquor made from fermented sugarcane and is the most popoular distilled …

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To get a discussion on Argentinian wine into perspective we’ll need to have a brief look at how it all began. In the late 15th century when the Americas were being discovered by the Europeans, …

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Believe it or not, Argentinians do drink beer – as a matter of fact, the consumption of beer has risen more dramatically than wine over the past decade or so. Celebrations like the Fiestas de …

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We had a pomegranate tree in the middle of the back vineyard when I was growing up. It was very old and the ants usually got to the fruit before we did but I loved …

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Originally trifles were very much like fools (pureed fruit and cream concoction) and were confused with one another for years but trifle really started out as an interesting way to use up stale cake. In …