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Jancis Robinson’s series about how to build an affordable cellar
...His Amarones are a world away from commercial examples....
...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...
...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....
...It was surprisingly easy to confuse a fine Grüner with a fine Chardonnay....
...But a more easily graspable point is that cork forests act as a significant carbon sink....
...Arguably a more significant development is the Spanish wine revolution....
...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....
...HOLD: Saga (SAGA) The travel division of the insurer has returned to profit for the first time since the pandemic, writes Mark Robinson....
...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....
...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....
...At the end of last year, a reader asked me to share my thoughts on how to build a cellar....
...I’ll have a glass maybe once a year. It’s a bit like Beaujolais Nouveau or Pimm’s in that respect, a signifier of the season. 2....
...He started out as a van driver, by chance for a wine company....
...As a result, Italian wine producers turned from the large old Slavonian casks that had been de rigueur and embarked on a love affair with barriques. France’s coopers owe him a great deal....
...The higher education division — which still accounts for almost a quarter of sales — registered a 5 per cent decline in revenues, though profitability has been supported by cost efficiencies....
...BUY: Hill & Smith (HILS) Operating margins are on the rise at the supplier of products for the construction and infrastructure industries, writes Mark Robinson....
...A success!...
...A house on the move....
...Please don’t tell me it would take only a few hours to construct a machine that could do what I do....
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