Daniel Manetti, head sommelier at the two-Michelin-starred Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, shares his joy at finally tasting a bottle of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, and why London is one of the best cities in the world to work in wine.

Sommelier Honey Spencer has joined forces with Pidgin’s former head chef, Elizabeth Haigh, on a series of pop-up dinners at Narroway Studio in Hackney.

In the fourth instalment of our Guilty Pleasure series, in association with Côtes du Rhône Wines, we discover chef Roger Jones’ penchant for lambs testicles and secret visits to his restaurant’s cellar armed with his Coravin.

Fabrizio De Fenzo, head sommelier at Ristorante Frescobaldi in Mayfair, set out on his path to becoming a sommelier at the tender age of 16, working at L’Anima, Sartoria and Petrus before finding a home at Frescobaldi.

In the next instalment of our Guilty Pleasures series, we speak to German-born Jan Konetzki, Director of Wine at London’s Four Seasons Hotel.

Asma Khan, the first British chef to appear in the popular Netflix series Chef’s Table, has admitted that working in the restaurant industry “can be quite isolating”.

This year’s Taittinger Sommelier of the Year explains what being a sommelier means to him, shares the mortifying moment he spilt a glass of red wine over a bride, and why Manzanilla with a plate of anchovies is heaven on earth.

Michel Roux Jr has named 29-year-old Gaetano Farucci as the head chef of the two-Michelin-starred Le Gavroche in Mayfair, following the departure of former head chef Diego Ferrari.

Melanie Brown, wine buyer for New Zealand restaurant The Providores and the founder of independent retailer The NZ Cellar, on learning to use a corkscrew, dreams of Anthony Bourdain, and how a bottle of Ata Rangi Craighall Chardonnay cemented her love of wine.

Sommelier at London hotspot Nuala explains how a sick sommelier helped get her start in wine, why Trousseau is her marmite grape, and how the earth stopped turning upon tasting a certain Champagne while backpacking in New Zealand.  

A staunch advocate of natural wine, Isabelle Legeron founded RAW Wine in 2012, which has grown to become the world’s largest community of low-intervention organic, biodynamic and natural wine producers. Here, she shares her unconventional path in wine, and details of her her new venture, the London-based wine bar Neptune.

Dinner’s director of wine tells WLC about getting tongue tied when serving Angelina Jolie, spilling fish sauce on one of his diner’s heads, and an unforgettable dinner in Cadiz involving lashings of Krug.