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Jancis Robinson’s series about how to build an affordable cellar
...He was offered a job in Champagne but decided that would be a bit boring (that word again) so applied for the Sicavac job instead. “I’m very happy here,” he told me, “because it’s a family....
...Constrained by a small cast and a tight budget, Bruce has distilled the story to a flavoursome 55 minutes — “I stripped it down and rebuilt it,” he explains....
...The jocular self-description comes in “Modern Girl”, a song that wears its Garden State influences like a Bruce Springsteen T-shirt, all squealing sax and yowls while the titular modern girls party like...
...Robinson knows her biblical scholarship, and she is no literalist, remarking that to propose anything other than human authorship is “a notable instance of our having a lower opinion of ourselves than the...
...His Amarones are a world away from commercial examples....
...His writing is fully, bitingly human and always strives to tell the truth in a world full of political lies. Bruce Robert London N14, UK...
...Professor Bruce Lloyd London South Bank UniversityLondon SE1O, UK...
...Bruce Couchman Ottawa, ON, Canada...
...It was surprisingly easy to confuse a fine Grüner with a fine Chardonnay....
...Arguably a more significant development is the Spanish wine revolution....
...But I have a colleague on Jancis Robinson.com, Tamlyn Currin, who specialises in detailed analysis of the interaction between her inventive dishes on the one hand and her cellar on the other....
...But a more easily graspable point is that cork forests act as a significant carbon sink....
...Even a tasting of a winery’s basic range costs $81 on average and, if visitors want a tour too, they could end up paying far more....
...Robinson was born in Atlanta in 1935, a scion of a prominent southern banking family....
...Italy has many wines that deserve a place in a decent cellar because they really do improve with time in bottle. And it’s not just the reds....
...And there is a ready secondary market for wine with a good reputation, should you wish to sell some....
...My first wine encounter after a stint in hospital with double pneumonia was a lunch with fellow members of a group known as “The 1950 Babes”, although only three of us are female....
...Bruce CouchmanOttawa, ON, Canada...
...And in the UK, since August 1, we have had the additional imposition of a new and complex duty system tied to alcohol content which has added 44p a bottle to most still wines....
...A good buy for lovers of classic claret....
...Those investments include a heavily impaired £30mn stake in a challenger bank, more than £40mn in property funds managed by M7 and a further £47mn in often-opaque investment vehicles at Robinson’s own firm...
...There was admittedly one evening when I welcomed a mouthful or two of 10-year-old madeira, but I think that was more as a linctus than a taste treat. My tastes have changed completely....
...In a statement on Friday, Bruce said he was “extremely proud of what Ithaca Energy has accomplished over the past several years” and was leaving it in a “strong financial and strategic position”....
...He’d had to leave promptly to get a train to Liverpool. All I had to do was walk home and slump in a chair....
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