‘Wine lovers will be rewarded if they are prepared to age riojas, especially those released a bit earlier, even further in bottle.’

Jancis Robinson continues her budget cellar series with a guide to Iberia
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‘A reader has gone somewhere that others are not invited to follow. No one should disturb your solitude’.

Novelist Christine Smallwood on ‘lady readers’
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Readers ask @RobertShrimsley for advice on life’s dilemmas

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The untold story of the three women who brought down the Medellin cartel by Jeff Maysh and Keith Moore

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Why does our smart tech keep failing us? Tim Harford explains how modern devices became too clever for our own good

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‘If I say it’s “unreconstructed”, you can see how that might be a compliment, but this is on a different scale.’

@TimHayward takes a trip to Paris
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‘We’re not vegan, but one of our favourite people is.’ @honeyandco

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‘I’m intrigued by the stereotypical Napa Valley novice wine producer. I picture them spending far more time deciding on label design than on pruning decisions.’

Jancis Robinson reports from a recent trip to California
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‘I have built a career around travelling because I feel safest when I’m in motion’

The Typo King FRSL / FRSA on what it means to see oneself in a work of art
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Eccentric. Obsessive. Destructive. Does the myth of the Hackney Mole Man come anywhere near the truth?

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When indigenous Taiwanese soldier Pa Wen-shan was sent back to his village he thought his time on the front line was over. Now, writes @kathrinhille, he is charged with training a new fighting force to counter the growing threat of invasion by China

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‘This “middle-aged mansplaining” is in fact simply middle-aged men talking.’ @RobertShrimsley on the evolution of a buzzword
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‘There was more wine. I managed to lose the receipt. The afternoon slipped down the slick slope of a Soho-hole.’

@TimHayward finally follows the noise to The Devonshire
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The case for seeing Trump as a sensible conservative can seem a solid one, says Simon Kuper, until you listen to what people who have worked with him say…

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‘Apples dressed in apples create such showstopping fireworks that you won’t mind if the hungry gap lasts a little bit longer.’

Tap here for @honeyandco’s latest recipe:
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‘You see yourself in something that seems, on the surface, strange or alien.’

Rose Glass on her new film ‘Love Lies Bleeding’
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‘Sancerre, roughly halfway along the Loire, is in the enviable position of easily finding a position on wine lists all over the world.’

Jancis Robinson makes a decades-overdue return to Sancerre

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‘Charles McIntosh was important to the tale of Beatrix Potter. And the dazzlingly complicated world of fungi was important to them both.’

Meet the real Mr McGregor, Perthsire postman and amateur naturalist

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‘In December 2017, Rahile was taken by the Chinese state. For the past six years, close friends and family have been frozen in time, replaying their final conversations with her over and over in their minds. None realised the imminent crisis she faced.’

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