Part two of our Southern Italian odyssey, as Tim Atkin, Victoria Moore and Gabby Savage (swiftly christened Sauvage by Atkin) join me as we trek across Campania, Basilicata and Puglia. The road from Feudi in Avellino to Botromagno in Gravina in Puglia takes many forms. First, deserted motorway, ideal for zooming whilst whistling happy tunes ...

Last week three learned journos and I departed Gatwick at a very early hour, bound for Campania and Puglia. On arrival, first stop... the car hire office. Sweltering in the Neapolitan heat haze, the staff revealed that our car wasn't 'quite ready'. 'We'll have the BMW then' suggested Tim Atkin, always with an eye out ...

It has to be admitted that driving around the vineyards of Southern Italy in July is not without its attractions. On a recent press trip - and on our way back to Bari airport - we decided to 'take 5' on a strip of beach adjoining the autostrada. There I asked Tim Atkin about the ...

Last week Elisa and I visited the Enotria producers in Piemonte and Liguria. It was midsummer, a full moon, and the hills were alive with the clink clink of bottling lines and cries of dismay at Italy's World Cup performance. Madness was in the air, but we ploughed on regardless and managed to taste ...

On July 25th nine of us will be saddling up our two wheeled charges and boldly riding, from a place called Enfield somewhere in North London, all the way to Cambridge, some 57 miles hence.
Tim, Edgar, Dan H, Dan H(ii), Sergio, Pete W, Andy, Jon ‘my other bike’s also better than yours’ Teale, and I ...

Douglas Blyde files this report from the recent Armagnac Castarede tasting at Angelus:
"I VENTURED to the beamed vault under ‘Angelus’, Lancaster Gate for an early tasting of old spirits. There, behind a glass partition on a scrubbed flagstone floor slumber crates of the 1er grand cru classé St. Emilion which lends the restaurant its name.
Presenting ...