Hints and tips:
...I would have easily sold my spare champagne today. Since the Covid lockdown, the market for fine vintage champagne has much more fizz....
...Controlling the past and future narrative Before cracking open crates of champagne for the victory party of the loss and damage fund, let’s first hydrate ourselves by drinking deep from the well of perspective...
...Keogh and Mitchell brought in their Thrill Room concept in 2011, greeting customers with a glass of champagne in a mirror-covered room furnished with velvet armchairs....
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...Among Champagnes, Perrier Jouët’s Belle Époque 2012 rose 68 per cent to £1,821 for a case, while Salon’s Le Mesnil, one of the most sought after Champagnes, posted strong gains across several vintages....
...Roden and I drink champagne. Holiday and Young ask for their favourite drink: a mixture of port and gin which they call a top and bottom....
...Miceli gave a champagne toast to the sales staff that night, saying “no matter what you end up doing in your career, how many years removed, you will always remember this night being together and celebrating...
...“On the bigger crypto weekends, the groups coming in for private buyouts were these young tech guys,” said Alan Roth, owner of Rosa Sky rooftop lounge....
...An object I would never part with is an Alan Shields art piece....
...Champagne makers, too, face a climate challenge....
...Consider the recent popularity of champagne with collectors....
...In The Late Train to Gypsy Hill (Wildfire £16.99), Alan Johnson may have invented a new genre — the cosy thriller....
...To no one’s amazement, the US found that the DST did indeed discriminate against American companies, and the USTR prepared a list of handbags, cheese, champagne and other notoriously French products to hit...
...On the next table a quartet of ladies, their Prada and Chanel bags perched on footstools, are merrily dispatching a bottle of vintage champagne....
...I stress this point now because most of the west is on the verge of popping the champagne....
...Others said to be members — Alan Howard and British financier Jamie Reuben — declined to comment....
...Don’t miss Michel Barnier has criticised the UK for trying to reopen an agreement to protect EU regional food specialities such as champagne and feta, saying the move is “not compatible” with a sustainable...
...Later on Monday, he threatened the EU with tariffs on champagne and cheese because of France’s proposed tax on digital services....
...If the taxes do go ahead and the US unilaterally imposes tariffs — as it was threatening to on French cheeses, champagne and handbags — what does the EU do?...
...Alan Livsey is FT Lex research editor and wine lover; email alan.livsey@ft.com; Twitter: @confordpark...
...A combined terrestrial and climatic model identifies over 33,000 hectares of prime viticulture land — an area larger than France’s Champagne region....
...None of them is cheap, but then neither is Champagne....
...Policy watch To steal a tweet from Trade Secrets writer Alan Beattie (@alanbeattie if for some odd reason you are not yet following him): “Donald Trump’s mellowing, they said....
...The most interesting development in US trade policy this week in my view has been the truce between the US and France over digital taxation, avoiding new tariffs on champagne, but leaving the UK and Italy...
...I once gave someone a bottle of champagne and a jar of Honey & Spice jam. The champagne went unmentioned but the recipient was still enthusing about the jam days later....
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