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£3 for every bottle of wine sent to Treasury

3:46pm Thursday 29th March 2012

There was a lot of talk on Friday about the announcement of the Government’s Alcohol Strategy. This included a minimum unit price (mup) of 40p a unit of alcohol. This means that those of us that regularly spend £6-£10 on a bottle of wine probably won’t see a price difference due to the mup. However, those that partake in Aldi’s £2.99 a bottle or three bottles under £9, will now be paying more unless those bottles are under 9.97% Alcohol By Volume (ABV) which is doubtful.

Summer in a bottle

1:31pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

Sarah McCleery suggests some perfectly pleasant ways to enjoy the sunny days ahead . . .

Keeping up a fine tradition

2:44pm Monday 9th March 2009

Denise Barkley finds that the award-winning Trout at Tadpole Bridge lives up to her expectations

• The Trout at Tadpole Bridge

True taste of luxury living

3:03pm Tuesday 27th January 2009

Denise Barkley discovers that Whatley Manor lives up to all the accolades

• Whatley Manor

Labelled with love

10:47am Thursday 9th October 2008

The Pinotage grape is unique to South African winemakers. A cross between Pinot Noir and Cinsault, it was the brainchild of a professor at the University of Stellebosch in the 1920s.

You can bank on the Boathouse

10:38am Thursday 9th October 2008

Katherine MacAlister discovers that an Oxford favourite is still setting the standards for fine dining and originality

Bonny from over the ocean

1:47pm Wednesday 6th August 2008

Sarah McCleery meets legendary winemaker Randall Grahm

Transports of delight

3:06pm Friday 11th July 2008

I was born on Tyneside in 1948 and graduated from Newcastle-upon- Tyne College of Art and Industrial Design in 1969, having studied illustration, typography and graphic design.

• Ray Jackson

Living the dream

3:01pm Friday 11th July 2008

Just ten months after being invited to perform alongside some of the biggest names in the music world Cumnor cellist Barney Morse-Brown found himself on stage collecting a prestigious prize at this year's BBC Folk Radio Awards.

Hold very tight please

2:50pm Friday 11th July 2008

With a number of great bus-themed hits of the past playing annoyingly in my head - a mixture of Flanders and Swann, mawkish late-night Country and Western, and playgroup outings - I was doubtful about how much I would find to enjoy at the Oxford Bus and Morris Motors Museum.

• Oxford Bus and Morris Motors Museum

Chilean and cheerful

2:47pm Friday 11th July 2008

I t is a source of some irritation that the predictive text facility on my mobile phone accepts gr8 as a word (as, I have just learned, does my PC's spellchecker) and yet it rejects what I would call proper' words such as bode and vitriolic.

Jamioe does the business

2:41pm Friday 11th July 2008

Katherine MacAlister plucks up courage to say that Jamie’s Italian is really rather good . . .

The map man

2:28pm Friday 11th July 2008

Linora Lawrence meets Nick Millea, head of the Bodleian Map Library

A breed apart

11:41am Friday 30th May 2008

I am beginning to think that I should, for the sake of the English wine industry, stop visiting our 160-odd vineyards. With every visit I make, I bring with me the sort of weather that can wipe out an entire vintage.

Outstanding in their field

11:08am Friday 30th May 2008

Painter Jan Harvey and scrap metal sculptor Sophie Thompson, who have previously exhibited on their own forArtweeks, are joining forces this year to produce a show on a theme dear to both their hearts - rare breed animals.