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...what goes into their grand vin....
...His colourful career includes some fine tales about handing over cash for Crimean wine treasures to a distinctly dodgy middleman with a gold-embossed Cadillac....
.... £29.50 Lea & Sandeman Kopke, Colheita Tawny Port 2005 (20%)Waitrose have a range of Kopke’s delicious wood-aged ports. Colheitas are a blend of wines from the same year....
...Drink, don’t keep. €19.50 Stroud Wine Co Ch Montaiguillon 2019 Montagne-St-Émilion (14.5%)Old-fashioned label. Very slightly rustic, but sweet and ripe. Many St-Émilion enthusiasts would love this....
...Cuvée Ortolan 2019 is labelled Vin de France and comes in a (too-heavy) sloping-shouldered Burgundy bottle....
...An 1859 poster advertising the project compared its height favourably to St Paul’s in London, St Peter’s in Rome and the Great Pyramid in Egypt....
...As a general rule, the heavier and damper the soil, the better chance the vines had of withstanding the long summer drought (not as severe as in 2005) and heat (not as severe as 2003)....
...Ch Meyney, St-Estèphe £26 Averys, BBC Good Food Wine Club, Laithwaites, Sunday Times Wine Club BY THE CASE Ch Carignan, Cadillac £84 a dozen in bond, Farr Vintners Allées de Cantemerle, Haut-Médoc £135...
...R López de Heredia, Viña Tondonia Reserva 2005 Rioja £32.50 Berry Bros & Rudd Glorious, fully mature wine long-aged in oak....
...I noted “orange peel, interest and great purity” on this broad, creamy, dramatic wine. 14% Ch La Tour Blanche 2005 Sauternes £22 for 37.5cl Huntsworth Wine Co, £45 St John Restaurant Wines This property...
...● Ch Reynon, Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux red 2010, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 Tasting notes on Purple Pages of JancisRobinson.com....
...Vins de Vienne centred on Seyssuel across the river from Côte Rôtie and Condrieu, have only relatively recently begun to produce wine in St-Péray....
...Pavillon Rouge, the second wine of Château Margaux, looked glorious in Southwold — just a notch down from the grand vin that, like Mouton, was looking particularly successful last month....
...’s hard Marsannay Le Dessus des Longeroies, and a very strange Nuits-St-Georges Premier Cru Clos des Porêts St-Georges from R Dubois that tasted like the sort of Algerian “burgundy” that used to be sold...
...His original company, Virgin Wines, was developed with Richard Branson and taken over by Laithwaite’s in 2005....
...In September, French supermarkets’ foires aux vins (wine fairs) can also yield some great buys. 5....
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...Bush in the summer of 2005, when the native of tiny Dillon, South Carolina, was being considered to replace legendary Fed chair Alan Greenspan....
...SWEET Val d’Orbieu, Taste the Difference NV Muscat de St-Jean-de-Minervois Great value. Really fresh, different, explosive and not at all industrial....
...Good value. 13.5% £8.49 Marks & Spencer Ch de Ricaud 2005 Bordeaux Supérieur Drink this great value claret from Cadillac sooner rather than later but you can really wallow in it....
...Fine and fresh. £40 top Marks & Spencer stores Vincent Girardin, Folatières Premier Cru 2005 Puligny-Montrachet Almondy nose. Round, satisfying and fills all corners of the palate....
...Honest stuff. 12.5 per cent, £9.99 Oddbins RED Dom des Terres Falmet Cinsault 2008 Vin de Pays d’Oc St-Chinian producer makes this lovely light, fruity red based on one of the Languedoc’s prettier grapes...
...the grand vin....
...Lighter than some vin santos, this may provide tangy, fond reminders of Tuscan holidays for some. 17% £14.99 per 37.5cl big M&S stores Berrys’ Tokaji Aszu, 5 Puttonyos 2005 Tokaji Drink 2009-2015From Royal...
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