Here's a little break from matters Australian.

As mentioned in the last blog, two of my four summer Financial Times pieces have been on Australian topics, and I resume these in edited form below.

Apologies: this long-trailed blog entry has dragged its heels owing to pressure of work and travel (to Tasmania and WA).

Another packed week, with more Barossa valley touring, a little first-class education (the chance to sit in on two of the Lan

Australian readers will be very familiar with this, but for those who may be following this blog from the northern hemisphere, and especially the more northerly parts of the northern hemisphere ...

Barossa notes will follow, but this is an interim note in part to thank all those who have sent samples through for me to loo

As you can sniff from the photograph below (which shows the Greenwich riverfront near the Royal Naval College), the week of the Decanter World Wine Awards (April 20th to 24th 2009) was an unusually b

Jancis Robinson recently asked me for a piece on 'the process of moving your family and your palate' to Australia, for posti

Last October I visited Taiwan for the first time – in search of great oolong tea, as well as to write a piece about the isl