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Bruce Anderson

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Vodka that makes an excellent aperitif

Vodka that makes an excellent aperitif
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Bruce Anderson

Drink / North Uist’s whisky is one to watch

13.08.2025 9

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Bruce Anderson

North Uist’s whisky is one to watch

07.08.2025 10

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Bruce Anderson

The English pinot noir that rivals Burgundy

24.07.2025 4

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Bruce Anderson

Wine to pass the cricket Test

10.07.2025 1

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Bruce Anderson

To rehydrate, drink beer

28.06.2025 10

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Bruce Anderson

To rehydrate, drink beer

26.06.2025 10

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Bruce Anderson

The lure of St James’s 

12.06.2025 7

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Bruce Anderson

The loveliness of Ligurian wine

29.05.2025 10

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The art of the political lunch

15.05.2025 5

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My new-found love for Marsala

01.05.2025 3

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Bruce Anderson

The Chinese tried to get me drunk

17.04.2025 7

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Bruce Anderson

The paradox of West Virginia

03.04.2025 6

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Bruce Anderson

The Berry Bros supremacy

20.03.2025 10

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Bruce Anderson

Should you bother decanting wine?

20.02.2025 10

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Bruce Anderson

The best way to approach sake 

06.02.2025 10

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Bruce Anderson

The Reagan effect on wine lists

23.01.2025 10

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Bruce Anderson

Kemi should prepare for a political pounding

09.01.2025 10

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Bruce Anderson

Drink / My bottles of the year

This has been the most fascinating political year I can remember. I have even found myself dreaming about politics – and neither the excitements...

31.12.2024 3

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Bruce Anderson

My bottles of the year

This has been the most fascinating political year I can remember. I have even found myself dreaming about politics – and neither the excitements...

12.12.2024 5

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Bruce Anderson

Advent is the season for revelling in fine wine

Crime. Fear not: none of us was planning to break the law, with the possible exception of hate speech. Where that is concerned, how would one...

05.12.2024 10

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Bruce Anderson

Chilean wine is hard to beat

We were assembled to taste Chilean wines assisted by magnificent Scottish food, courtesy of the Scottish embassy in London, otherwise known as...

21.11.2024 4

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Bruce Anderson

How Maggie took her whisky

The whirligig of time brings in his… astonishments. Who would have thought it? Even a couple of decades ago, the notion that the Tory party could...

07.11.2024 3

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Bruce Anderson

The finest Rhône I have ever tasted

The medics would have one believe that alcohol is a depressant. That may be their conclusion drawn from test tubes in laboratories. Fortunately,...

24.10.2024 10

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Bruce Anderson

Alan Clark’s wines were as remarkable as he was

Où sont les bouteilles d’antan? For that matter, où sont les amis with whom one consumed them? These autumnally melancholic musings arose because a...

10.10.2024 2

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Bruce Anderson

Nick Elliott and a life worth drinking to

The English language has immense resources, but the odd weakness. What, for instance, is the translation for ‘Auld lang syne’? We were discussing...

26.09.2024 3

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Bruce Anderson

The wonder of wine from the Mosel

Conservatives used to be good at inspiring a mass membership, underpinned by organisations. Before the first world war, the Primrose League had a...

12.09.2024 3

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Bruce Anderson

How to drown your sorrows

Age. At the Spectator party last week, the editor asked me how long I had been attending the festivity. I could not remember whether it had been...

18.07.2024 1

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Bruce Anderson