With the festive season creeping up on us, soon you wont be able to move for glasses of bubbly. Jane Anson examines some of the alternatives to the ubiquitous champagne that are equally likely to bring good tiding to all that quaff them

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With a new year creaking into motion, Jane Anson runs through the European wines that will be clamouring for space in your cellar and on your table

Your guide to the finest in over-indulgent eateries

Fine wine, yes. But then there’s the food, markets and a regeneration project that has added taste to the city

Rosés, sparkling wines and lighter reds from Beaujolais or the Loire are some of the real joys of summer drinking. But it’s also interesting to uncork a few of the more unusual white varieties that can be forgotten about in the rush for a chilled chardonnay or pinot grigio

Jane Anson looks ahead to the coming year and discovers that, after playing something of a second fiddle of late to the new-world upstarts, French wine is very much back on the menu