About a year and a half ago, I was approached by the brilliant Michael Koenig, who is a doctoral student in Music and Global history here at Oxford University. He had recently been to a talk on synaesthesia and wanted to try and replicate some semblance of this blending of senses to those of us who don’t experience it. As a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and a recipient of the Silver Medal of the Musicians’ Company, Michael was more than capable of cov

I was lucky enough to be invited on ABS Wine Agencies’ Masters of Riesling trip this June. It’s one of the wine industry’s most coveted tours and it certainly lived up to all the hype. On arrival at Stuttgart Airport, we were promptly offered a glass of Sekt (or German sparkling wine) that came straight from a cooler in the boot of the minivan – certainly a first for me, but carpark bubbles definitely needs to be more of a thing! Glass in hand, off we went to Weingut Schnaitm