Henry Jeffreys
The Guardian
United Kingdom
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First of the summer wines: picnic wine, cocktail recipes and what to serve with them
Mark the start of spring and go alfresco everywhere with top tips for a wonderful picnic: the kit, the classic food and wine combos, and some suitably celebratory wine cocktails → Read More
A wine romance: how to taste wine – and what to eat with it
Adding sight and smell to taste can do wonders for your wine-drinking experience. Learn to sniff and swirl like a pro with our step-by-step guide to tasting wine, talking about it and pairing it up with food → Read More
Grape expectations: how English fizz became something to celebrate
Not long ago you wouldn’t have brought English wine to a dinner party. Now, says Henry Jeffreys, it’s giving French wines a run for their money → Read More
From Brideshead to Bond: top 10 books on booze
Henry Jeffreys raises a glass to the best writing about alcohol, including the James Bond novel that inspired a cocktail and Roger Scruton’s guide to wine → Read More
Break out the daiquiris, home bars are back in vogue
When I mention to people that I have written a book about home bars, the most common response is, ‘my parents/grandparents/swinging uncle used to have one of those globe cocktail cabinets’. The other… → Read More
Cocktail of the week: Bramble
Inspired by the British pastime of brambling, this is a legacy of that legend of the bar scene, Dick Bradsell → Read More
Is it possible to talk about wine without sounding like a prat?
There are only two British television wine presenters taxi drivers have heard of, Jilly Goolden and Oz Clarke. Who can forget their double act on Food… → Read More
Why old bangers beat shiny new cars hands down
Why old bangers beat shiny new cars hands down on The Spectator | I was collecting my daughter from school when my path was blocked by an enormous black… → Read More
From Stalin’s poetry to Saddam’s romances: the terrible prose of tyrants
‘Reading makes the world better. It is how humans merge. How minds connect… Reading is love in action.’ Those are the words of the bestselling author… → Read More
The joy of University Challenge
One programme that still shines out as a beacon of intellectual rigour among the sea of dross on television is University Challenge. As always, teams of four students from Britain’s best universities… → Read More
Booze bargain hunt: the best budget supermarket tipples
With a £10 gin from Aldi named one of the best in the world, the likes of Lidl and Asda are giving drinkers cause for cheer. Here’s our guide to the best hidden treasures → Read More
What did the Romans ever do for us when it comes to viticulture?
Taste has a well-noted ability to evoke memory, so it is curious how infrequently most wine writers mine their pasts for inspiration. You wouldn’t think… → Read More
Head down under for your Christmas wine
Stock up on some fabulous wines from Australia this festive season → Read More
Why smoked salmon doesn’t taste anything like it should
I’m just about old enough to remember when smoked salmon was a rare treat. Then, around 1986 or 1987, suddenly it was everywhere. There were smoked salmon… → Read More
The best books on drink of 2017
Henry Jeffreys discovers the controversy surrounding champagne and the magic of brewing beer → Read More
Nature and Necessity by Tariq Goddard review – debauchery and class war in the country
There are hints of PG Wodehouse and EF Benson in a modern take on the country house novel that takes in broad humour and contemporary mores → Read More
Bottle rocket: why craft spirits are causing a stir
There has been an explosion in bijou new gins and whiskies, with 45 distilleries opening in the UK last year alone. Can they do what craft brewers have done for beer, and take on the big boys? → Read More
The Angry Chef by Anthony Warner review – detox and other food nonsense
Warner has it in for nutrition experts, dieticians, pseudoscience – and Gwyneth Paltrow → Read More
The vineyards of Kent
As a wine bore, holidays abroad are a battle with the family to cram in as many vineyard visits as possible when all they want to do is go to the beach. But it’s only recently that I have begun to… → Read More
Until the election is over, anti-social media is best avoided
On Tuesday morning I was thinking to myself how oddly pleasant social media seemed. Then Theresa May dropped her election… → Read More