... Mr Laskey's recipe for it turned out to be hilariously simple. You take a pound of mixed red fruit, such as raspberries, blackberries and strawberries, add a pint of dry white wine, 4oz castor sugar and the seeds of one vanilla pod scraped into the mixture ...

... were sometimes known in the 19th century to add a little Syrah to bolster up a weak vintage. This is bursting with ripe blackberry fruit with a firm backbone from the Cabernet adding length of flavour. Extremely well made and of high quality, this wine ...

... with a long line. However, this run was most congenial, with a clear back cast, a well-defined flow and plenty of wild blackberries to glean as I made for the neck of the pool. Best of all, I had the place to myself all morning-and that's just as I like ...

... since 2002. Seasonal dishes such as carrot and ginger soup, spiced beef, fillet of venison with juniper sauce and port and blackberry jelly prove Mr Gill to be wrong to write off British food. it's alive in Chats worth, if not Chelsea. or doughtily clinging ...

... spring. As I muse over these happy little birds, I reOect how lucky we are m Britain to have such distinct seasons. N ow it's blackberry time and, for the fortunate, partridge shooting. ;;: 2 THE photographer ~ It 's always surprising to me how many people ...

... of the fruit garden this year (leaving aside for a moment our bumper harvest of apples and pears) has been the thornless blackberry called Thorn free. Curiously, the birds have not robbed them this year, leaving us a newly ripened handful of glossy, jet-black ...

... ciders, such as Perronelle's Blush ('my grandmother had rosy cheeks'), which is sold as draught in pubs and has a little blackberry liqueur added. Aspall is the fastest-selling cider brand in Tesco and Sainsbury's-sales have doubled in the past two years ...

... of the Year 2007 competition. I hang around for the results, and see Linda Edmonds ofßrentwood, Essex, win for her Tipsy Blackberry and Apple cupcakes (being held in picture). Jane is, it is clear, the consummate professional, posing with each finalist ...

... diamond and Jewellery shown actual size 1960's turquoise and diamond earclips £6,600 1960's French turquoise and diamond blackberry brooch, faintly signed, probably by Sterle, Paris £4,950 The history of the small parish of Barnsley, or Bermondslea as ...

... same age as his Grenache vines. That the two get on well together is proved by this deep, carmine-coloured wine, with ripe blackberry fruit and beautifully natural dry finish. Truly a vin de terroir, excellent with roast lamb. 6. Mitchell Sevenhill Vineyard ...

... of a still life by Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-84). It is a 24Xin by 2914 in canvas of fruit with grapes, figs, medlars, blackberries, a peach, oranges, a pomegranate, a lemon, chestnuts and oysters set on a draped blue cloth in a stone niche (Fig 4). I ...

... certajnly the most ele- ga~t possible wine made from the Gamay grape. This still has a deep violety colour, masses of ripe blackberry I cherry fruit with real depth of flavour from old vines. Almost too good not to drink immediately, but keep it for two ...