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Douglas Blyde heads to The Barcelona EDITION hotel to give Veraz a visit. Instead of finding a culinary homage to Catalonia, he discovers a series of "challenging" dishes that put him in mind of the works of Picasso. ....
Douglas Blyde visits Pétrus by Gordon Ramsay and discovers from head sommelier Daniel Chelo how there is more to the Belgravia restaurant's wine offering than the legendary Pomerol red. ....
Ever-soaring temperatures are a challenge to wine makers, but these Mediterranean wines from vineyards and grape varieties will be able to cope, says David Williams ....
) Wine is usually sold to us by country first, with region or grape variety second. But there are plenty of examples of wine cultures that bridge nominal national boundaries, where winemakers have more in common with a supposed foreigner across the valley than a fellow countryman several hundred miles away. The intensely aromatic white wines of Alsace in eastern France, for example, are much more akin to those of their near neighbours in the Pfalz in Germany than the wines of Bordeaux; and it’s very hard to tell apart the wines made in the vineyards either side of the Slovenian and north-eastern Italian border. This sense of shared winemaking ways and styles is also very much apparent in the northwestern corner of Iberia, home to wines such as this subtly honeyed and floral (it’s aptly named), superbly tangy, mouthfilling dry white from the Galician side of the Spanish-Portuguese border. ....