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Gary Vaynerchuk's book '101 Wines Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World'

Gary Vaynerchuk: The wine world's new superstar

In a spartan room above a New Jersey liquor store, a revolution is fermenting. With his witty, irreverent, in-your-face approach to the time-honoured art of wine tasting, Gary Vaynerchuk, the 32-year-old son of Soviet immigrants, is a megastar in the making.

Inside Features

Brilliant bulb: Skye Gyngell reveals why we should all be fans of fennel

Sunday, 3 August 2008

True fans of fennel love it sliced up raw in salad. But if you want to sweeten that aniseed hit, it roasts perfectly with meat or fish

Nice 'n' easy: Chill with Hix's summer ice-creams

Saturday, 2 August 2008

Summer's here, at last. So dust off your ice-cream machine and chill out, says Mark Hix

Wine: Something For The Weekend?

Saturday, 2 August 2008

Wine: Cahors blimey!

Saturday, 2 August 2008

Was it only yesterday I was on holiday in Cahors in south-west France's Lot Valley? So it seems, but it was actually 10 years ago that I took myself there with a case of Châteauneuf-du-Pape just to be on the safe side. The local plonk might be OK for washing down everyday fare, but what if my friends and I fancied something decent to drink? Earlier this summer, I returned to the scene of my criminal lack of confidence to attend something rather grandiosely called the Journ�es Internationales du Malbec. It was three convivial days of discussion, tasting, wining and dining and I could scarcely believe the progress made by Cahors in the space of a decade.

Eating Out: Sun, sand and superb seafood

Sunday, 27 July 2008

Whether you're waterskiing or sun worshipping on Europe's beaches this summer, you won't have to stray too far from the sand for seriously good food.

Liquid assets: Hix's cool summer soups

Saturday, 26 July 2008

Chill out with this colourful selection of cool summer soups, says Mark Hix

Wine: Something For The Weekend?

Saturday, 26 July 2008

Wine: Red-hot Chile

Saturday, 26 July 2008

July's first light dusting of white over the Andes signals a change of season in Chile. And with the snow comes the guarantee of irrigation for next summer's vintage from the snowmelt waters from the mountains. And thanks to the supply of mountain water, Chile isn't so crippled by drought as is the case in its New World "competitor" Australia.

The salmon business: Can marine farming ever be eco friendly?

Thursday, 24 July 2008

Every day, a million Britons tuck into salmon, and demand is rising fast. Marine farming is the supermarkets' answer – but can it ever be eco-friendly? Martin Hickman reports