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.... £14.99 a half Majestic Plaimont, St-Albert 2018 Pacherenc du Vic Bilh Pacherenc du Vic Bilh (12.5%)Useful wine that has character and backbone and is really refreshing but definitely sweet too....
...“I think it’s going to absolutely fly,” says Joe Robinson, head of house sales and private collections at Dreweatts....
...increasingly sourcing special bottlings to be labelled either The Society’s X or, if they are of an even higher quality, The Society’s Exhibition X, a reference to the 1874 International Exhibition in the Royal Albert...
...familiar archetypes are re-envisaged as the Rambling Chair, the Park Nightstand and the Drapery Table – a one-off piece crafted in Italy from a single block of Travertine. 1838 Wallcoverings x Victoria and Albert...
...Tenor Paul Groves has the important role of Griffith’s trainer Howie Albert, but his music is cramped, often suffocated by the orchestra, and the character comes off as an enigma....
...In fact, Albert Camus remarked: “If I hadn’t read The Widow Couderc, I wouldn’t have written The Outsider as I did.”...
...It led to an apprenticeship in 1944 with the Belfast architect Henry Lynch-Robinson....
...Likewise, one of the lesser vineyards at top St-Émilion property Château Cheval Blanc, which was co-owned by Bernard Arnault of LVMH and the late Belgian businessman Albert Frère, has been converted from...
...The book An Agricultural Testament by the botanist Albert Howard brought him “a last throw of the dice”....
...Up the road in dowdy Islington, meanwhile, is the squatted commune of graffiti artist Jo Robinson (Jessie Buckley), whose brusque acquaintance with Alexander sparks plans of their own....
...Aldo Sohm, my sommelier (if I can’t have my wife Jancis Robinson) will serve sherry to go with the small dishes and the soup: a Palo Cortado 52 Sanlucar from Equipos Navajos....
...Vineyards like the Howards’ Giffords Hall estate are sprouting up all over the UK and their wine is acclaimed by critics such as the FT’s Jancis Robinson....
...Opening this weekend at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is a new installation: a reinterpreted, restaged 19th-century room....
...He is also a patron to the Victoria and Albert Museum, where Mr Elliot is a trustee....
...In Italy and France, sales of Albert Camus’s The Plague, which describes an outbreak of “pestilence” in the Algerian town of Oran, and José Saramago’s Blindness, about a mysterious epidemic of sight loss...
...hrp.org.uk/hillsborough-castle Elizabeth Robinson travelled to Hillsborough Castle as a guest of Historic Royal Palaces Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about...
...Polish mandolin from Boleslaw Usarzewski can be heard on “Family Man” and shuddering Tuvan throat singing from Albert Kuvezin demonstrating that “A Voice Has Power”....
...As Albert Boghossian says, “Argyle created its own magic”....
...All very Robinson Crusoe. Until the Portuguese discovered Príncipe in about 1470, the island was uninhabited by humans....
...Follow Jancis on Twitter @JancisRobinson Some alternatives to red burgundy and German Pinot Noir Alsace Albert Mann Muré André Ostertag Valentin Zusslin Austria Ebner Ebenauer Johanneshof Reinisch Loimer...
...Some great dry Riesling producers ALSACE Boxler Albert Mann Josmeyer Kientzler Kuentz-Bas Meyer-Fonné Muré André Ostertag Schoffit Trimbach Domaine Weinbach (Faller) Zind-Humbrecht AUSTRALIA Crawford...
...On plans for Red House, now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Webb writes: “clothe it with green”....
...Frazier’s Wine Merchants Daniel Dampt, Côte de Léchet £19.99 House of Townend Bernard Defaix, Côte de Léchet £12 a half, Nicholls & Perks William Fèvre, Vaulorent £39.95 Noel Young Wines Long Depaquit (Albert...
...It’s thought even William Blake used to partake in the rituals — a plaque on the hill recounts the poet’s comments to his friend, Crabb Robinson: “I have conversed with the spiritual Sun....
...Mann, Cuvée Albert Riesling 2014 Alsace that seems to be quite widely exported....
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