Table Talk

Terroir to his toes

Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots

Burgundy bargains

Thomas Woodham-Smith mixes gluttony and business

French with tears

Claudia Savage-Gore bravely faces up to disastrous seven-plus results

Not drinking but drowning

Lisa Hilton sees Venice disappear beneath the flood waters again and fears for the future

Eat well, eat less

Ignore all those food fads, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Keeping it in the family

Christopher Pincher on Michael Fabricant and those who require vineyards to be family-owned

Party pieces

Thomas Woodham-Smith sees out the antique year

Modus shoperandi

Hannah Betts says it’s the shopping you’re buying, not the outfit

Spare the spoons

Claudia Savage-Gore hates the school holidays with three children underfoot

Stag do

Patrick Galbraith takes a shot at deer stalking