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...Spain’s more recently fashionable fine-wine regions Ribera del Duero and Priorat also produce many a wine worth ageing, witness respectively Vega Sicilia and Álvaro Palacios’ L’Ermita, but these are not...
...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....
...Pear syrup with just enough freshness.£13.50 a half Tesco Philippe et Jacques Guignard, L’Ouest de Lamothe Guignard 2010 Sauternes (13.5%)A snip unearthed by buyer Jane Masters MW....
....£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....
...The late Denis Durantou of L’Église-Clinet in Pomerol developed Les Cruzelles and La Chenade in the satellite appellation Lalande de Pomerol....
...Estabel a 2023 vigneron de l’année....
...Very ripe, intense fruit presumably accounts for the fact that, if served this blind, I would guess a higher dosage than 3g/l....
...Until March 3; further information and tickets here ‘Loading: L’art urbain à l’ère numérique’ (Loading: Urban Art in the Digital Age), Grand Palais Immersif An exhibition exploring the evolution of urban...
...For example, the company is part of the so-called Mansion House Compact which also includes L&G, Aviva and Scottish Widows....
...Earlier this summer, I issued a call to readers: What would you like to ask the Jancis Robinson?...
...The wine had slightly more residual sugar than most (3.7g/l) but that was well compensated for by the persistence and potential of this very well-made wine....
...Arte The brand’s showroom on Rue de l’Abbaye will be a portal to Hawaii through new wallpapers inlaid or embroidered with rattan and raffia....
...It’s that story that Ashley Robinson’s new play adapts, creating an intimate work for stage....
...Jacques Thienpont of Le Pin in Pomerol had an explanation in his relatively new St-Émilion property Ch L’If: the limestone under its vines adds zest to the wines....
...Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L Strayer, Fitzcarraldo Editions £12.99, 224 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....
....£17.75 Yapp Bros Begude, Esprit Pinot Noir 2021 Haute Vallée de l’Aude 13%Really convincing special selection from the hills of Limoux. Burgundy, eat your heart out!...
...£26.99 a half Uncorked, London Legras & Haas, Chouilly Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Brut 2012 ChampagneA label founded by Nicolas Legras of R&L Legras and his wife Brigitte Haas....
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...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...
...The US beauty and fragrance group hopes shares trading at 29 times forward earnings would edge up to the rating of 35 times enjoyed by L’Oréal....
...Seely who, as managing director of Axa Millésimes, is responsible for wine estates as luxuriously classic as Chx Pichon Baron and Suduiraut in Bordeaux, Quinta do Noval in the Douro valley, Domaine de l’...
...Jancis RobinsonAnd what about if a picnic wine for a light red that’s nicely chilled, could be Cinsault, C-I-N-S-A-U-L-T....
...At 6.1g/l, it was high in this wine but such are the winds of Monterey that grapes have to struggle to ripen and are habitually high in counterbalancing acidity....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
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