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Festive wine choices

10:48am Friday 12th December 2008

Sarah McCleery looks back over 2008 and selects her favourites for the festive season

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

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 Jamies 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.

Forza Alesi!

11:00am Friday 30th May 2008

J ean Alesi had a spectacular Formula One career that lasted for more than 12 years. At the beginning he won the French Formula Three title, then graduated to Formula 3000 with the French ORECA team in 1988.

Comics, Coca-Cola and childhood memories

10:57am Friday 30th May 2008

H amish Vigne Christie Paul - better known to his many fans as Korky was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1951, one of seven children.

Martyrs memorial

10:53am Friday 30th May 2008

I wonder how many of the commuters driving through the village of South Newington on the busy main road between Banbury and Chipping Norton know that they are within a stone's throw of probably the finest wall paintings of any church in Oxfordshire?

Know your onions!

10:49am Friday 30th May 2008

I admit, I had to refer to Wikipedia to confirm what an Allium was. I thought it was a kind of lily (I was getting confused with Arum) - in fact Allium is the onion genus and there are no less than 1,250 species covering everything from onions, shallots and leeks to garlic and chives.