New Yorker Timothy Sullivan had an epiphany a decade ago when he tried his first sake. It’s led him to spend the last decade as an evangelist for the Japanese drink made from fermented rice, running his own website, UrbanSake.com and becoming a “Sake Samurai”.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in this country; more than 600,000 Americans die from the condition each year.

While the United States is going through a health crisis due to the listeria outbreak in the past few weeks (which has mostly kept longtime ice cream makers Blue Bell in the country’s headlines), the United Kingdom sets itself up for the summer … with gin and tonic ice cream!

In their award-winning campaign for one of their clients, Suntory Whiskey, Japanese creative agency, TBWA\Hakuhodo rendered simplistic and refined pictures of the liquor on ice – only, the ice was shaped as various different remarkably detailed and recognizable objects and figures.

The good folk at popsugar.com shows us how to make Ramen-crusted chicken wings.

WatchMojo counts down the top 10 best global beers.

Beat the winter blues with a proudly South African wine cultivar while nestled in front of a crackling fireplace.

The world’s oldest wine club has recalled more than 15,000 bottles of its own label Prosecco worth £145,000 after five shattered in customers’ wine racks.

One of Nederburg’s most decorated wines has just done it again. The 2012 Winemaster’s Reserve Noble Late Harvest has won its second International Sweet Wine Challenge trophy in London.

After a 15-vintage career, successfully reaffirming Nederburg’s reputation as one of South Africa’s top wineries, cellar master Razvan Macici is taking on a new position. 

Although little known in South Africa, Viognier is a cultivar which is becoming increasingly popular and production has escalated over recent years.

Simonsig, the Stellenbosch wine estate famous for the pioneering roll it played in the industry, has reached a new milestone in its proud history.

Nederburg het sy lang verwagte, vrugteryke en weelderige Ingenuity Spanish Blend bekend gestel nadat dit genoeg tyd in die bottel deurgebring het om uitdrukking aan sy volle potensiaal te begin gee,

A morning walk through the streets to catch a bus  to the edge of the Bosporus,  past the shoe shine men outside  the New Mosque  (new is relative; they started i

The vines that produced the best white in one of the world's top wine competitions crouch low and untrellised.

There is a battle between Telkom and Cybersmart about the use of the term LightSpeed Broadband.

Anthonij Rupert Wyne is another producer that doesn’t submit to Platter’s so unfortunately no comment about the portfolio in what so many treat as their wine bible. Launched in 2011, the

Spanish wine range La Bascula has picked up three medals at this year’s Sommelier Wine Awards in London. The scoop’s a feat co-owner Ed Adams is particularly proud of, given London’

This morning, when I sat down to write about the KWV Roodeberg Red 2013, a wine of great childhood nostalgia for me, I was thinking about a spicy traditional dish with which to pair it.  I remember

Oryx Desert Salt is a true African product, pure unadulterated high saline water from an underground aquifer that flows over deep underground rock formations before coming to the surface in huge saltp

Morgenster is in the throes of the annual Olive harvest and their state of the art press working at full tilt, the Pieralisi oil extraction plant has sufficient capacity to receive and process the oli

Special wine today, and one that goes back in my family for more than 60 years. KWV Roodeberg Red 2013 is the current vintage. KWV first made its iconic Roodeberg Red in 1949 and it has been a firm fa

Creation Wines on the Hemel en Aarde Ridge has a chef called Warwick Taylor [read my chat with him here] who produces all manner of good things to pair with the fabulous creation wines. Here is his Co

A morning walk through the streets to catch a bus  to the edge of the Bosporus,  past the shoe shine men outside  the New Mosque  (new is relative; they started it in 1

One does not turn down an invitation from GM Johann Laubser to visit the utterly beautiful Delaire Graff Estate in Stellenbosch, to taste through the current wines and then to lunch at the Deliare Gra