Sam Lewis-Hargreave

With craft beer no longer a novelty, the alcohol connoisseur has a new beaux – fine wine. Wine bars are popping up all over London to quench the city’s thirst for the good stuff (even Tesco opened one briefly in Soho last month), and some venues are just as surprising and outrageous as the craft beer pop-ups of yore. Here are the four unlikeliest places in town you can order wine so fine you’ll have to do a classic Hollywood spit-take, though you can always say you just wanted to really get the full flavour.   A photo posted by BIB natural wine Taproom (@bibtaproom) on Aug 27, 2016 at 6:26pm PDT     1. Bag-in-Box No, this is not a bar in a bag in Boxpark, though that may be around the corner. Instead, Dalston’s Bag-in-Box wine pop-up, known as BIB (for the protective neckpiece you must wear to avoid staining your clothes while slurping a good red), is back for a sixth-month stint. The pop-up sells wine from bags in boxes, throwing the bottle aside like the late Gil Scott-Heron discarding his old material. BIB stocks ten reds, ten whites and three rosés, all from France, Italy and Spain, continuing the trend of fine wine experts ignoring the Great British grape. If you like to keep your wine and your patriotism, and indeed your wine and your bottles, separate, BIB is the unusual London wine bar for you. 2. Battersea Power Station Those who do want to drink local should keep their corks in until the revamped Battersea Power Station is completed, because weird wine lovers

Ever since Jerry Seinfeld’s inspirational 2007 documentary 'Bee Movie', the world has become increasingly sympathetic to the purpose and plight of our yellow-and-black-striped friends. In a bid to better care for bees in our modern metropolis, London is now playing host to a project that will give researchers unique insight into urban bee behaviour. In short, London’s putting licence plates on bees. On June 21st, Queen Mary University biologists released 500 bees into the capital, each tagged with little bee licence plates, and they plan to release hundreds more each week. Here are three things we can expect from this new horde of bee traffic.   1. They might create a buzz around the next place to 'bee' The freshly released bees should help us understand their preferred places in London for visiting flowers. But we could be surprised. Like regular smoke, the Big Smoke does strange things to bees.  Two years ago a swarm of bees with solid fashion sense descended on the Victoria Street branch of Topshop. Five thousand bees tried to start a high street hive until a manager from the nearby John Lewis, who happened to be a trained beekeeper with all his bee gear inexplicably at work with him, 'smoked them into a box'. Also, just weeks ago, hundreds of bees convened in the basket of a bike in Fulham, causing police to step in. These more sophisticated bees, with flashy license plates, may well find a little-known honey-based cocktail pop-up that everyone will be talking about until