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...Appropriately enough, given its appearance, “the idea for Y-40 started from a dream,” according to Giovanni Boaretto, the 38-year-old scion of the family which owns the pool, and its executive manager....
...Prices start at £32.95 for a Boutique-y World Whisky Blend and run into the thousands for a malt from the silent Japanese distillery Karuizawa....
...The Reposado ($170, wallywine.com) is rested in barrels made from mizunara, or Japanese oak, an incense-y type wood that’s more often used in the maturation of upmarket Japanese malts....
...A Martini twist, Sea the Sea, is infused with ozone-y seaweed; the Cosmo is reinvented as a pale-pink highball, scented with cardamom and timur berry....
...The Malibu Pier – once home to the storied hippie-Hollywood hangout Alice’s Restaurant – is now dominated by a fancy retail outpost of One Gun Ranch, co-owned by a different Alice, the English one called...
...There’s a purple basil sour garnished with apple-y sunset oxalis, and a lemonade scented with cucumber, saffron and rose petals....
...“It pairs well with Japanese food, salads and dessert-y things and is nice to have cold in summer.” Comforting and refreshing all at once. Who needs caffeine? @alicelascelles...
...“It’s spicy but incense-y, like a temple washed by rain.”...
...The ginger-y, golden Nightcap (£24.99 for 500ml) flooded my veins with feelgood fire. The damson-coloured Livener (£24.99 for 500ml, pictured top) had a fruity spiciness a little like vermouth....
...A favourite is Sotoleros Mario y Cesar ($99, fiascobk.com). “It has that classic eucalyptus and menthol flavour but also fresh-cut wood, birch beer and barnyard.”...
...“[Experienced forecasters] will ask themselves, ‘will inflation be below a level X by date Y?’ They’ll immediately think about different date Y’s. And they’ll also think about different level X’s....
...“Alice is moving the furniture around again” is an old family joke that goes back to Alice Temperley’s childhood. One of the fashion designer’s favourite pastimes was to change the bedrooms all about....
...Alice Neel, labouring for decades in obscurity and isolation, shared Hendricks’ passion for spotting the extraordinary in the uncelebrated. But, by and large, it was lonely work....
...Diana Evans is the author of ‘A House for Alice’ and ‘Ordinary People’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café — and subscribe to our podcast Life & Art wherever you listen...
...Courvoisier recently launched its first cognac matured in mizunara, or Japanese oak (£2,250, harveynichols.com)– an incense-y variety strain more commonly used to mature luxury Japanese whiskies....
...March 2 to 16; further information and tickets here ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, National Ballet of Canada The company brings Lewis Carroll’s timeless tale to the stage with an exuberant ballet...
...Expect great beer and a modern, chef-y, Sunday lunch....
...Sitting on a vintage leather stool at a bar cluttered with memorabilia, I try an anise-y French Polish with calvados, chartreuse, carrot and parsley, and a highball of strawberry, rhubarb and dill oil....
...All being well, the wines — “a slightly skins-y white and a fun red” — will be launched in the middle of next year....
...She tempered their influence with the furious grace of Alice Neel, who built unique faces out of variegated splotches of pigment....
...I taste distillates of sage-y wormwood and cucumber-y salad-burnett; lovage, with its notes of celery and black pepper; and Granadian orange mint....
...There won’t be an absinthe fountain at this bar in the Marais, says Savage, but there will be plenty of anise-y pastis....
...fund could also compensate Spain if it permitted Algerian gas to be rerouted through Italy, to make it easier to fuel central European markets, according to the paper, which is written by Ben McWilliams, Giovanni...
...You could subsist all night on the “staff picks” at just £5 a glass – we had a silky Chianti from Tenuta di Carleone, a golden Sin Nombre verdejo from Castilla y León and a pithy orange from Les Tètes in...
...Mexican flamenco-rockers Rodrigo y Gabriela, French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf and French synth-pop act Christine and the Queens lend a global sound....
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