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With Gary Taxali’s gloriously daft cover – a blissed-out barrel jockey teetering on the brink of a watery downfall – Issue asks why place matters so much to what we drink. Alice Feiring wonders whether the word terroir has lost some of its juice; Marina O’Loughlin muses on how setting shapes flavour, while Bouchon Racine’s Henry Harris recalls the recipes — and the tins of tripe still lingering in his kitchen — that carry him back to holidays past.
Angela Hartnett lunches with Danny Dyer; Zadie Smith reflects on her favourite meal; Jay McInerney confesses his problem with the cat-pee grape and artists Sarah Lucas and Maggi Hambling compare Bollinger to Special Brew while waxing lyrical about Francis Bacon.
Elsewhere, Jeremy King reflects on the agony and the ecstasy of opening restaurants; Jake Missing examines the hospitality world’s tug-of-war between analogue and digital; and Levi Dalton explores wines that blur the line between red and rosé.
You can also dig into profiles on Côte-Rôtie, Gewürztraminer, Bordeaux’s “lost decade,” the history of Oddbins, and Portugal’s nearly forgotten talha tradition. Recipes come courtesy of Simon Hopkinson, Ed Wilson, and Stephen Harris – among many more. Keep drinking!