Drink Tank

The wonderful, the frightening, the mad and the random – Wine & Spirit reports from the wilder shores of the drinks world

• Aquick wordwith...

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-07-2008)

  Richard Bampfield MW Chairman of the Association of Wine..

• Wine kampf Times, I need hardly tell you, are hard. Winemakers were the first to feel the squeeze. Plywood chips instead of oak; a surreptitious bottle of Ribena in the vat when ripe grapes were not affordable; migrant workers being paid with tank sa

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-07-2008)

  Norrington..

• Drinking Now

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-06-2008)

  Duncan Bannatyne Dragon's..

• Wine kampf

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-06-2008)

  City University North Trent has invited me to conduct a series of evening classes and Wine & Spirit subscribers qualify for a 3.14 per cent saving - yes, free pi for every reader! Which wine, which symphony? The class examines the tonal expression and harmonies of the bohemian composer..

• Chilean President Michelle Bachelet

  Author: Wine & Spirit team

  (01-05-2008)

  Wine & Spirit grabs a few minutes with Chile's president Michelle Bachelet.

• Wine kampf

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-05-2008)

  To the 150th anniversary luncheon of Bassterd Wickes & Cromerty, where the great and the good were assembled to celebrate a century and a half's history of one of our most distinguished wine importers. More accurately, it was the 150th anniversary of Peregrine Cromerty's association with..

• The Wonderful and Frightening World of Olly Smith Tron Cannavan

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-04-2008)

  In 1982, Disney created a visionary movie called Tron. Jeff Bridges is sucked into a computer world where he battles the virtual forces of corrupt corporate greed. I was eight when I watched this with my granny at the ABC in Bournemouth and it blew my mind. Granny fell asleep. I have been..

• Anthony Rose's Wine People

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-03-2008)

  Tim and Judy Finn of Neudorf in Nelson, New..

• The Wonderful and Frightening World of Olly Smith Attack of the sommeliers

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (01-03-2008)

  Return of the Jedi has a great moment when the rebel fleet is swarmed over by a mighty throng of small Imperial TIE Fighters. It's a bit like watching an army of enraged prawns converging on the face of a scuba diver. I've never been attacked by a sommelier, but I have mates who begin to..

• Drinking now: Antony Worrall Thompson

  Author: Wine & Spirit News Desk

  (26-02-2008)

  Wine & Spirit finds out what is currently tickling the palate of chef and presenter Antony Worrall Thompson.