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A guide to Easter food and wine pairings Share Staying at home over the Easter long weekend means that you have the chance to treat yourself to the ultimate food and wine pairing, with classic Easter dishes. From sweet to savoury, we have some great options and even better wines to pair with them. “Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures”. These are the words of the late Michael Broadbent MW, legendary wine critic, writer, author, and auctioneer – a towering figure in the international world of wine. However, these could so easily be ...

Decanter Remembering Steven Spurrier: A tribute Sarah Kemp, former managing director of Decanter, pays tribute to Steven Spurrier and recalls how a chance meeting led to his 'extraordinary' contribution to the publication. Steven Spurrier at the Wine and Spirit Trade Ball is one. I had just come off the dance floor with Bollew Broadbent, son of Michael, when we bumped into the ever elegantly dressed Steven. On enquiring how he was, he told me without the slightest embarrassment that he had just been fired from his job at Harrods. Steven’s transgression was that he had gott...

I’d always thought of writing a slim volume to tell the grandchildren about my life, and bit by bit it grew into something bigger. However, Wine – A Way of Life remains a memoir, not an autobiography. For my 21st birthday, my maternal grandmother gave me membership to The Wine Society and a 12-bottle wine rack. While these presents added to my enjoyment of life, my paternal grandfather had lit the flame eight years before after a Christmas Eve dinner at the family house in Derbyshire, saying I was old enough for a glass of Port. It was quite amazing. ‘What’s this, Grandpa?’ ‘Cock...

Steven Spurrier, the Brit who got California wines to be taken seriously, dies at 79 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Steven Spurrier in the Halls of Congress in 2016, on the 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris tasting.Lucy PopeShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Steven Spurrier in the Halls of Congress in 2016, on the 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris tasting.Lucy PopeShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Steven Spurrier, left, with French wine writer Michel Bettane in 2010.Saez VictorShow MoreShow Less Steven Spurrier, who died Tuesday morning at age 79, was an unlikely champion for California wines. In 1976,...