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Jancis Robinson’s series about how to build an affordable cellar
...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...
...UK food-to-go retailer Greggs said it would open up to 160 new shops this year after adding 145 in 2023, as its market share rose to an all-time high....
...She added that Greggs would look to relocate another 50 stores this year, and “that will be a similar number as we go forward”....
...Unadjusted pre-tax profits came in at £188.3mn, thanks to a one-off insurance claim of £20.6mn....
...Greggs opened a record 220 new shops last year, with 33 closures and 42 relocations. The group now has 2,473 shops trading....
...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....
...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....
...It was surprisingly easy to confuse a fine Grüner with a fine Chardonnay....
...Arguably a more significant development is the Spanish wine revolution....
...But a more easily graspable point is that cork forests act as a significant carbon sink....
...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....
...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....
...A third-quarter trading update reported a 14.2 per cent increase in like-for-like sales in the outlets Greggs manages in the 13 weeks to September 30....
...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....
...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....
...UK companies reporting full-year results include real estate agent Foxtons, bakery chain Greggs, insurer Hiscox, office space provider IWG and news publisher Reach....
...Also, we go long UK pasty purveyor Greggs and short Tesla....
...A good buy for lovers of classic claret....
...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....
...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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