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...The group recently released an “east-meets-west” bourbon called Legent, made by Fred Noe, Jim Beam’s master distiller, and Shinji Fukuyo, the chief blender of Suntory’s Japanese whiskies....
...Every morning a small group of master blenders enters a glass bunker inside cognac house Martell’s complex of 19th-century warehouses to start the daily ritual of tasting, cataloguing and mixing the 300-...
...“We use six-row barley from Rajasthan and Punjab, and proprietary yeast, which help to give it those fruity, floral notes,” explains Rampur master blender Anup Barik....
...Where else in the world, the thinking goes, can you come to order your own, bespoke cask of whisky, and have a master blender carry out your wishes?...
...Apparently, it’s putting wine in a blender. 76. Does it work? It fills me with horror....
...blender David C Stewart MBE....
...The Dutch executive sold baby food group Numico to Danone for $17bn in 2007 and later sold coffee maker DE Master Blenders to JAB for about $10bn in 2013....
...The malts were then selected and blended by Suntory’s incumbent chief blender Shinji Fukuyo in partnership with third-generation master blender Shingo Torii, the grandson of founder Shinjiro Torii....
...“But it always sat uneasy with me that we were dragging it halfway round the world,” says master distiller Dave Withers....
...He invited me and fellow Master of Wine Richard Bampfield to help him assess about 90 English sparkling wines because he wants to expand his online range....
...Jim Beveridge, master blender at Diageo’s Johnnie Walker brand, says maturing Johnnie Walker Black Label for 12 years is “fundamental to the flavour....
...Broadcast from the Aberfeldy distillery in the Scottish Highlands, it allowed viewers who’d bought a special three-pack of single malts to taste along with me and master blender Stephanie Macleod from the...
...That will give you space to display your lovely old jugs and baskets up top, with room to hide your stick blender and lunch boxes down below....
...For east London, that means Masters & Co at Billingsgate Market. They’re not greengrocers like you’d find at New Covent Garden but specialist potato dealers (and “sundriesmen” . . ....
...Moore compares her technique to “pointillism”, and Hathaway describes her skills as akin to an “old master”....
...Master blenders often taste their whiskies diluted by half, for precisely this reason. If you like where things are going, keep adding water, a little at a time, until you find the sweet spot....
...May 2014: Mondelez strikes a $5bn deal with DE Master Blenders to create a global coffee business 6....
...At its 2,000-hectare sugarcane plantation and distillery in Paraipaba, Diageo’s mestre-cachaceiro, or master blender, Nelson Duarte, shows off one of the highlights of Ypióca — the distiller’s vast cellar...
...Net income tumbled by nearly half to $548m following the spin-off of its coffee business to Netherlands-based D.E Master Blenders....
...Blenders coffee business with Mondelez International in 2014....
...Baked potatoes with smoked mackerel pâté (serves six) Christopher was the master of the baked potato, and under his tutelage I came to have a great love for them....
...To execute the deal, DE Master Blenders’ controlling shareholder needed to secure an enormous $11bn leveraged loan....
...Place the peaches, honey, ginger, lemon zest and remaining juice in a blender and whizz to a purée....
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