Our executive wine editor Ray Isle is pouring affordable and refreshing wines this month. From crisp Albarinho to citrusy Chablis and a light red from Sicily, here are his top three wines to drink at summer barbecues and the beach.
Douglas Blyde visits Alex Dilling's establishment at Regent Street's Hotel Café Royal. While there, he discovers how "perpetually positive" head sommelier Giuseppe Grasso has developed the restaurants list, and finds one dish that evokes "very posh Marmite".