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How South Australia became one of the world s most exclusive wine touring destinations Combining a sense of place with innovative wines, the wine-growing regions of the Adelaide Hills and McLaren Vale are well worth a visit Wine tasting with a view at Shaw & Smith winery Credit: Shaw & Smith winery It was a sunny spring morning, with hints of mown grass and cherry blossom on the nose. Up on the summit of Mount Lofty, some 12 miles east of Adelaide in South Australia, I could almost hear the sap rising in the vineyards down below. Before me, running north-south in a band of freshly greened-up, mist-snagged slopes and ridges, lay the Adelaide Hills, one of the New World’s most innovative wine-growing regions where elegant chardonnays and cooler-climate pinots are setting new standards in Australian wine. Before me, too, was a palate-tingling prospect – several days of tasting and eating through South Australia, the state which dominates the Australian wine ....
‘The phos in Vietnam aren t as good as the ones in London’ William Sitwell goes on the hunt for the best pho, but finds himself embarrassed to admit his favourite was in his home country Vietnam is the home of pho, but is it better in London? I remember a friend ticking me off once, scoffing at my ignorance, looking at me as if I needed medical assistance. It was just before lunch and I was heading to a Vietnamese restaurant near Oxford Street. “I love pho,” I said, pronouncing it foe. “What did you just say?” she asked. “Pho,” I replied. “I love it.” ....
Sighnaghi’s eighth-century Bodbe Monastery Credit: Maksim Ozerov Crossing himself after the earthenware qvevri is unsealed, winemaker Gia Gamtkitsulashvili ladles the fresh rkatsiteli wine into a pitcher to a round of applause from an expectant gathering. His qvevri wine is amber, like sap that has frozen in aspic, from vineyards flourishing in the sun-kissed valleys between the snowy Caucasus Mountains. “I’m happy,” he says. “It’s been in the qvevri for six months, the acidity is balanced, the colour is light. This is how the oldest wine in the world looks.” If one word finagles its way into the lexis of travel this summer, it might be “qvevri”. These lemon-shaped clay vessels have been used to ferment Georgian wines since the sixth millennia BC – and if Covid-19 continues to disrupt major wine tourism destinations such as France, Georgia is waiting in the wings, well-placed after becoming one of the first countries to accept fully vaccinated pa ....
What it s like to stay at a Scottish hotel with an 8pm alcohol curfew Linda Macdonald checks into five-star Prestonfield House as hotels in Scotland reopen their doors Scottish hotels – such as Prestonfield House in Edinburgh – are back open for business Credit: David Cheskin It’s a brave hotel that takes the leap of faith required to re-open (again) at the first opportunity, given the battering businesses have taken over the past year; not helped by constantly mutating guidance for the hospitality industry that not even the Scottish Government appears to understand. But, as Scotland tentatively reawakens to both its residents and those in Scotland and Wales, we can start once again to think about things like rest, reunion, recovery and celebration. ....
The pasta dish that is so good, it s worth planning an entire holiday around Pasta alla Norma, the Sicilian dish named after Bellini’s opera, tastes doubly delicious in Cefalu or Taormina The pasta maketh the holiday in Sicily, as Matt Charlton discovered Credit: simonapilolla/Getty Images/iStockphoto My Sicilian adventure starts… just off Tottenham Court Road in central London. Since visiting Sicily for the first time a few years ago, a particular dish I had during my time there has stayed with me, and not once have I been able to track down a satisfying UK equivalent – until a year ago, when I happened across Norma (normalondon.com) on Charlotte Street, the name being my first clue that they might know a thing or two about the dish in question, Pasta alla Norma. ....