By Rose Murray Brown MW   Published in The Scotsman 18 April 2026 “Chenin Blanc is now back in fashion – and is having ‘a bit of a moment’”, announced Fergal Tynan MW of Alliance Wine at the start of his Terroir and Technique Chenin Blanc Masterclass held in Edinburgh recently. “In particular the quality of Chenin Blanc wines from

One of Scotland’s leading sommeliers has just launched a new wine club offering hand-picked bottles to wine lovers without the hefty restaurant markups.  One Great Bottle www.onegreatbottle.com is the brainchild of Canadian-born Phil Provart who made his name in Edinburgh as Fhior restaurant’s head sommelier. “The inspiration for starting up this wine club was that when working at Fhior

By Rose Murray Brown MW   Published in The Scotsman 14 March 2026 When Cape winemaker Sam Lambson decided to set up his own winery last year, he did something very unusual. Not only did he locate it in the city as an urban winery, based in an old textile and printing warehouse in Cape Town’s attractive Gardens district, but