Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Vodka is losing ground to wine in Poland. And it’s not just because summers have, as in so much of northern ...

Yet more evidence of the expansion of the wine world. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Above, the Adoria vineyard in winter. See also A Polish wine invasion. At ...

SOME 400 years ago a climatic change, called ‘The Little Ice Age’, saw vineyards in northern and central Europe disappear as summer temperatures fell, making it impossible to ripen grapes. One country ...

As climate change increases temperatures in Europe, many northern countries find themselves able to ripen grapes and produce wine. The UK, Netherlands and Scandinavian countries all produce wine, as ...

WE are just weeks away from the fourth edition of the Polish Wine Fest. The annual event, so well organised by Polish ex-pats Maggie Domaradzka and Maja Ignaczewska, is now an important part of the ...

Wine is made commercially in far more countries than are represented in the LCBO or any private wine store. The main producing regions are well known, but outliers I’ve tasted (outliers as far as I’m ...