Hints and tips:
...According to Majestic’s similar booklet, its Alain Grignon Carignan has 9.4g/l, Domodo Negroamaro 8g/l, Domaine Marquis Ravardel 2020 Châteauneuf-du-Pape 7g/l and many others hover around 4g/l....
...Pear syrup with just enough freshness.£13.50 a half Tesco Philippe et Jacques Guignard, L’Ouest de Lamothe Guignard 2010 Sauternes (13.5%)A snip unearthed by buyer Jane Masters MW....
....£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....
...The late Denis Durantou of L’Église-Clinet in Pomerol developed Les Cruzelles and La Chenade in the satellite appellation Lalande de Pomerol....
...Estabel a 2023 vigneron de l’année....
...Very ripe, intense fruit presumably accounts for the fact that, if served this blind, I would guess a higher dosage than 3g/l....
...For example, the company is part of the so-called Mansion House Compact which also includes L&G, Aviva and Scottish Widows....
...Earlier this summer, I issued a call to readers: What would you like to ask the Jancis Robinson?...
...The wine had slightly more residual sugar than most (3.7g/l) but that was well compensated for by the persistence and potential of this very well-made wine....
...Arte The brand’s showroom on Rue de l’Abbaye will be a portal to Hawaii through new wallpapers inlaid or embroidered with rattan and raffia....
...Jacques Thienpont of Le Pin in Pomerol had an explanation in his relatively new St-Émilion property Ch L’If: the limestone under its vines adds zest to the wines....
...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....
....£17.75 Yapp Bros Begude, Esprit Pinot Noir 2021 Haute Vallée de l’Aude 13%Really convincing special selection from the hills of Limoux. Burgundy, eat your heart out!...
...£26.99 a half Uncorked, London Legras & Haas, Chouilly Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Brut 2012 ChampagneA label founded by Nicolas Legras of R&L Legras and his wife Brigitte Haas....
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...Others that seem to have achieved overnight fame and prices to match include Domaine des Miroirs in Jura, Edmond Vatan in Sancerre, Ulysse Collin in Champagne and L’Anglore in, of all places, Tavel in the...
...The US beauty and fragrance group hopes shares trading at 29 times forward earnings would edge up to the rating of 35 times enjoyed by L’Oréal....
...Seely who, as managing director of Axa Millésimes, is responsible for wine estates as luxuriously classic as Chx Pichon Baron and Suduiraut in Bordeaux, Quinta do Noval in the Douro valley, Domaine de l’...
...Jancis RobinsonAnd what about if a picnic wine for a light red that’s nicely chilled, could be Cinsault, C-I-N-S-A-U-L-T....
...At 6.1g/l, it was high in this wine but such are the winds of Monterey that grapes have to struggle to ripen and are habitually high in counterbalancing acidity....
...Dillon, the holding company of Prince Robert’s family’s wine-related holdings, bought Ch Tertre Daugay, an underperforming estate in St-Emilion, and extended it two years later by adding its neighbour Ch l’...
...Also included in the scheme is L’Impression de Mauvesin Barton, the second wine of his family’s property in Moulis-en-Médoc, possibly the poshest wine to be packaged in a returnable bottle....
...Another factor in opening up French eyes and palates to wines from beyond l’hexagone has been the popularity of courses run by the London-based Wine & Spirit Education Trust, which certainly doesn’t limit...
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...Stay: in addition to its restaurant, L’Oliveraie, and its 700 hectares of scenic vineyards, Château Roslane has a 13-room hotel and small spa, so you can sip, dine, hammam, and sleep on the estate....
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