To celebrate International Sherry week (6-12 November 2023) and the renaissance of this exciting historic wine, I have picked my favourite dozen from the range of styles: DIATOMISTS MANZANILLA, MIRAFLORES BAJA (15%) £12.95-£14.95 hf bt Cockburns of Leith, Edinburgh; Cork & Cask, Edinburgh; Aitken Wines, Dundee; St Andrews Wine; Inverurie Whisky Shop Diatomists is a new brand name in the

I am standing in one of the oldest ‘odas’ in the Samegrelo wine region of Western Georgia.  This is the name of the traditional Mingrelian wooden house which is raised from the ground on piles, here with ‘qvevri’ clay fermenting vessels buried in the ground floor and to the side of the house. This oda belonged to Zaza Gagua’s

One of South Africa’s remotest wine farms, Sijnn Estate (pronounced ‘seine’), has just celebrated its 20th anniversary.  To mark the occasion the winemaker Charla Bosman (nee Haasbroek) visited Edinburgh to host a memorable vertical tasting of wines back to Sijnn’s founding vintage. Slim petite youthful Bosman looks like an unusual custodian of such an isolated estate, which is one