Bruce Anderson

Bruce Anderson writes The Spectator's Drink column. He was previously political editor of The Spectator.

The joy of Glenmorangie

21 June 2014 8:00 am

Glenmorangie is the most accessible of malt whiskies. It is a gentle, almost feminine creature, with hints of spring flowers,…

The joy of Glenmorangie

19 June 2014 1:00 pm

Glenmorangie is the most accessible of malt whiskies. It is a gentle, almost feminine creature, with hints of spring flowers,…

The soul of a lurcher and the secret of a capon

7 June 2014 9:00 am

A county, a house, a dog — and a bottle. Somerset: men have delved and farmed and built here for…

Cutting the capon

5 June 2014 1:00 pm

A county, a house, a dog — and a bottle. Somerset: men have delved and farmed and built here for…

Some consumer advice: do not sell your daughter for a bottle of 90-year-old port

24 May 2014 9:00 am

Port, or Hermitage? This does not refer to personal consumption. I was trying to remember Meredith’s Egoist, in which one…

Port and daughters

22 May 2014 1:00 pm

Port, or Hermitage? This does not refer to personal consumption. I was trying to remember Meredith’s Egoist, in which one…

A military funeral for a heroic vintage

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Alas, the ’63 ports are beginning to fade. I came to that conclusion the last time I tasted a Warre’s,…

A military port

8 May 2014 1:00 pm

Alas, the ’63 ports are beginning to fade. I came to that conclusion the last time I tasted a Warre’s,…

A toast to Le Roi Jen Quinze

26 April 2014 9:00 am

There ought to be a new literary award: the antisocial book of the year. A dozen years ago, Claire Tomalin’s…

A toast to Le Roi Jean Quinze

24 April 2014 1:00 pm

There ought to be a new literary award: the antisocial book of the year. A dozen years ago, Claire Tomalin’s…

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at Bordeaux's misfortune

12 April 2014 9:00 am

The en primeur tastings have been taking place in Bordeaux, and the mood has oscillated from despair to defiance. It…

A storm in Bordeaux

10 April 2014 1:00 pm

The en primeur tastings have been taking place in Bordeaux, and the mood has oscillated from despair to defiance. It…

Secrets of Sicily

5 April 2014 9:00 am

Western Sicily has been a crucible of aspiration and grandeur: the human condition at its most exalted: unsurpassable art and…

What Quique Dacosta knows that Picasso didn’t

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Chefs have a problem. Think of much of the best food you have ever eaten. Caviar, English native oysters, sashimi,…

New ways to open a bottle

27 March 2014 3:00 pm

Chefs have a problem. Think of much of the best food you have ever eaten. Caviar, English native oysters, sashimi,…

The tragedy of Armenia (and its brandy)

15 March 2014 9:00 am

It is impossible not to sympathise with Armenia. It has spent much of its history between the hammer and the…

The spirit of Armenia

13 March 2014 3:00 pm

It is impossible not to sympathise with Armenia. It has spent much of its history between the hammer and the…

Toast to a young gun

1 March 2014 9:00 am

Three of us, old friends, were meeting to arrange a marriage. The young couple have never actually met. Indeed, they…

Toast to a future wedding

27 February 2014 3:00 pm

Three of us, old friends, were meeting to arrange a marriage. The young couple have never actually met. Indeed, they…

A spirit to warm Bruegel’s ‘Hunters in the Snow’

15 February 2014 9:00 am

The ostensible subject matter is misleading, as is any conflation with his lesser relatives’ wassailing peasants and roistering village squares.…

Spirits of Bruegel

13 February 2014 3:00 pm

The ostensible subject matter is misleading, as is any conflation with his lesser relatives’ wassailing peasants and roistering village squares.…

Our daily haggis

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Give us this day our daily bread: those are also words of great culinary significance. Even if the ‘bread’ takes…

Burns Night bottles

30 January 2014 3:00 pm

Give us this day our daily bread: those are also words of great culinary significance. Even if the ‘bread’ takes…

Is there a clean joke for Burns Night? I asked Cecil Parkinson...

18 January 2014 9:00 am

As a life, it was a scintillating spectrum of the human condition. There was hardship and suffering, as well as…

The immortal memory

16 January 2014 3:00 pm

As a life, it was a scintillating spectrum of the human condition. There was hardship and suffering, as well as…