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...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....
...Good sweet white bordeaux can last even longer than red bordeaux – decades, in many cases....
...Buy a case and save some for a while.£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....
...L’Estabel already supplies Laithwaite's with white and rosé under the label Le Roi Soleil. Cabrières wine is locally supposed to have been loved by The Sun King Louis XIV....
...Dom Comte Abbatucci, Le Diplomate de l’Empire 2014, a biodynamic Corsican white blend that I tasted at Dynamic Wines in London last February....
...This was the most successful white-wine class in the whole competition, being awarded five golds (all 2022s) and six silvers....
...Definitely more delicate and refreshing than the white NV version. Pretty satisfying for the money even if it’s not bone dry....
...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...
.... £10.50 The Wine Society Sagesse Rouge 2020 Pays d’Oc 14%Mark Savage MW blends this, and an equally good white version, with great care every year....
...City corporate raiders Lord James Hanson, Sir Gordon White and Sir Gerry Robinson are long gone. Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is these days mostly active in the US....
...Jancis Robinson . . . what a difficult one! Well, if you’ve got room, just stick all wine in the refrigerator. Lilah RaptopoulosReally? Jancis RobinsonRed or white....
...Jancis Robinson is away. More columns at ft.com/jancis-robinson Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...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....
...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....
...A great choice to serve without food to those who refuse white wine. Very charming and distinctive....
...They join from DLA Piper and Gray Robinson, respectively. Smart reads The great uncoupling Xi Jinping is keen to lessen China’s economic dependence on the west....
...In the US, Crush Wine & Spirits and Chambers Street in New York, and Dee Vine Wines and K&L in San Francisco have some of the best German selections....
...The structure reminded me of a white burgundy. Much more refreshing, interesting and dry than a 15% Chardonnay from a hot region. This would be an extremely versatile food partner....
...The key finding was that so long as a small amount, as little as 30mg/l (or 30 parts per million), of sulphur dioxide was added before fermentation, the biogenic amine level in the resultant wine was inconsequential...
...It can make serious wines worth ageing, as shown by the likes of Domaine Gauby, Domaine de l’Horizon, Lafage, Olivier Pithon and Le Roc des Anges in Roussillon....
...Great value for a pure cocktail of flowers and white pepper.£13 The Real Wine Co Dom de l’Idylle, Vieille Vigne 2019 Savoie 11.5%Light, fresh and just the right side of watery because there is so much delicate...
...About a wine described as “1920 Nasty White Bordeaux” (£14.50 apiece) he wrote, “Joy, oh joy only six bottles left.”...
...That year, Rice was working for family friend Barry Phillips at his particularly wine-focused White Horse Inn and restaurant in Sussex....
...Chevalier’s other parcels of land are not far away and include the most extraordinary hillock: narrow terraces of vines wind round it to such an extent that the locals call it “l’escargot” (the snail)....
...Teibert liked Gauby’s biodynamic wines so much that, in 2005, he set up Domaine de l’Horizon in the same village, Calce....
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