The Oxford Times | Food and drink

Summer in a bottle

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:31:02 +0100

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

Jazzy dining

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:08:40 +0100

Denise Barkley enjoys a summer’s evening of good food and entertainment at Villandry

Right on the nose

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:47:53 +0100

Sarah McCleery meets Ben Woods, a wine advisor for Waitrose

Joining the Beaujolais Cru

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:15:16 +0100

Sarah McCleery is impressed by the variety and quality she discovered on a trip to an overlooked wine-producing region of France

Keeping up a fine tradition

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:44:39 +0000

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

All the way from Margaret River

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:41:39 +0000

Sarah McCleery visits the Woody Nook restaurant at Woodcote to get a taste of some fine Australian wines

True taste of luxury living

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:03:20 +0000

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

Festive wine choices

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:48:38 +0000

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

Labelled with love

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:47:37 +0100

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

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:38:34 +0100

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

Bonny from over the ocean

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:47:00 +0100

Sarah McCleery meets legendary winemaker Randall Grahm

Transports of delight

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:06:00 +0100

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.

Living the dream

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:01:00 +0100

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

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:50:00 +0100

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.

Chilean and cheerful

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:47:00 +0100

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

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:41:00 +0100

Katherine MacAlister plucks up courage to say that Jamies Italian is really rather good . . .

The map man

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:28:00 +0100

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

A breed apart

Fri, 30 May 2008 11:41:00 +0100

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

Fri, 30 May 2008 11:08:00 +0100

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!

Fri, 30 May 2008 11:00:00 +0100

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.