Food Bites: meet the Italian chef living la dolce vita at QT Newcastle Carmine Mari is enjoying hosting wine dinners and long lunches in the city. Plus, your weekly foodie news. Newcastle Herald · 2h ago
Hidden air-raid shelter wine worth £3.56m; Romanée-Conti bottles fetch £269,500 England has become one of the most remarkable rare wine discoveries in recent auction history. Untouched for decades, the collection sold at Christie's London wine auction for £3.56 million, with every lot finding a buyer and several world records broken. Eleven bottles of Romanée-Conti 1971 alone fetched £269,500. If you… The Times of India · 9h ago
The best supermarket wine to pair with your Sunday roast, chosen by an expert Wine expert Tom Gilbey recommends a bottle for beef, lamb, pork, chicken and vegetarian roasts The Independent UK · 13h ago
The six best Christmas markets in Europe to visit in 2026 this winter It’s hard to avoid overly commercialised markets full of generic imported tat, but these six festive villages are recommended for their Christmassy atmosphere The Independent UK · Oct 12
‘When I started cooking, there wasn’t even an avocado’: Mary Berry on marriage, modern eating and the secret to stress-free cooking From a time when avocados were unheard of to an age of one-pot dinners, Mary Berry has seen British cooking transformed. The 91-year-old tells Lauren Taylor about 60 years of marriage, how her own eating habits have changed and why good home cooking needn’t be complicated The Independent UK · Oct 12
Italy’s biggest wine heist? Thieves haul away €5 million in 30,000 bottles; where did the two trucks vanish? Every stolen bottle was from the 2023 vintage. The shipment included wines from the Tignanello and Guado al Tasso labels. Thieves also made off with around 10,000 bottles of Solaia. The Economic Times · Oct 10
In 1385, Italy's largest family-run winemaker was founded, centuries later thieves stole 30,000 bottles worth USD 5.8 million, CCTV footage shows daredevil theft Florence-based Antinori said that two vans were used for the robbery and the company believes five or six people took part. The Economic Times · Oct 10