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...A mic-drop line there from the acerbic Frederic Blanc-Brude at Scientific Infra & Private Assets on what institutional investors must learn from the Thames Water nightmare....
...I recently tried a bottle of Monte Xanic Sauvignon Blanc (crisp and clean, with citrus and tropical flavours much like its peers from New Zealand), and I was also delighted to discover that the Baja California...
...Ramsay points out Mont Blanc to the south-west, through the saddle of two of the more than 200 Alpine peaks visible from this 2,970m perch....
...“Oh look, he’s thrown in a crate of Cheval Blanc 1947, a display of outrageous boldness”....
...Pretty good value.£34.95 The Whisky Exchange, £35.99 Harrogate Fine Wine Co André Robert, Rose des Vignes Extra Brut ChampagneMainly 2018 Chardonnay, tinted with 10% Pinot Meunier with the majority fermented...
...“De Chirico would walk to the Litografia once a week, stopping en route at Bar D’Angelo to buy two mont blanc pastries,” Romolo recalled, “and then he would eat them here so his wife wouldn’t see him.”...
...Prince Robert had flown in from Boston....
...From Pinot Blanc to Sangiovese, the varietals deliver quality wines – you can sample them at established producers such as Hacienda La Lomita, Monte Xanic and Santo Tomás (founded in 1888, it’s the oldest...
...Hat tip to the FT’s UK editor-at-large Robert Shrimsley for “recovering” these emails....
...Also close by is Les Allues, a popular village for British expats, where passionate skiers Robert and Charlotte Smith moved from east London in October 2020....
...Wine drinkers won’t be stuck sipping astringent Sauvignon Blanc — the list is extensive....
...This is intriguing since Robert Parker doesn’t seem to have rated any wine for the past four years. Fairchild’s wines are released in limited editions of handblown bottles....
...She remembers tasting and enjoying a 1947 Cheval Blanc, a top Saint-Emilion that includes Merlot....
...Initially photography sneaked into painting: Andy Warhol’s silkscreens, the collages of Robert Rauschenberg trying to “act in the gap” between life and art....
...Robert Redfield, then head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was overheard complaining in a hyperbolic jibe last September: “Everything [Atlas] says is false.”...
...flower-filled terraces, you look down over grassland dotted with giraffes, zebras and herds of eland and waterbuck towards the deep blue of the English Channel and even beyond — Calais and the cliffs of Cap Blanc...
...Ruinart Blanc de Blancs, from £60; champagnedirect.co.uk. The person I rely on for personal grooming and wellbeing is my Alexander technique practitioner, Helen Cartier-Knox....
...She chooses a Prague egg salad to start and a glass of Californian sauvignon blanc. “You must try the Prague egg — it’s one of the bistro’s specialities,” she says....
...“I hate Sauvignon Blanc. I hate cat’s piss....
...The 86-year-old Robert Drouhin of Beaune negociant Joseph Drouhin reports that he has never seen such a small white wine crop, both in terms of the size of grapes and their quantity....
...He has also used deals as a way to diversify the business beyond LVMH’s roots into new sectors that include the luxury hospitality group Cheval Blanc hotels....
...Les Blancs razed an African outpost in 2016. Translations imposed English lessons on Ireland last year. Now, Small Island brings the Empire Windrush into land (at the National’s Olivier)....
...Roberts is a veteran of rival bank Citigroup. More here....
...I do not demur, although I do not like zucchini, and order myself a glass of sauvignon blanc. She is very keen to talk about the abuse....
...André Robert, Les Jardins du Mesnil Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru NV Champagne £56.64 Tannico Classic, sizzling aperitif all-Chardonnay champagne, the result of part barrel-fermentation and long ageing — a...
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