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.... £36.15 Corney & Barrow Benjamin Leroux 2017 Savigny-lès-Beaune (13%)Proper Savigny with no faults nor rough edges on the palate. You couldn’t say it’s great value but it’s very well made....
...But all is not well with this slice of Americana, as Benjamin Herold reports in a deeply researched new book, Disillusioned....
...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Speakers include Jake Sullivan, Gucci Westman, Jancis Robinson and many more. As a newsletter subscriber, claim 10 per cent off your pass using promo code NewslettersxFestival....
...I’d been getting into wine while working in music – I was head of A&R at Parlophone and MD of Island Records – and seeing these famous vineyards and villages up close was so exciting....
...The 1953 Coronation opera season is famous for bringing Maria Callas to Covent Garden in three roles (one of them the title role in Verdi’s Aida) and for the world premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana...
...Look out for Fallen Tree, a wooden bench that appears to sprout from the limbs of a tree, developed with Benjamin Graindorge; the Blister bench in folded leather by Normal Studio and the metal-pierced Belle...
...Paul Guinnessy Silver Spring, MD, US...
...In the 1967 film, The Graduate, Anne Bancroft played Mrs Robinson, the older married woman having an affair with 21-year-old Benjamin, portrayed by Dustin Hoffman. Bancroft was just 35, Hoffman, 29....
...My colleague Benjamin Parkin in New Delhi has the story here....
...The island had originally been settled by a formerly enslaved man, Benjamin Honey, in 1793....
...MD Paul, secretary of the National Construction Association, said his members would raise their rates by at least 60 per cent owing to the rising costs of supplies....
...This next phase in industry consolidation worries transport economist Antonella Teodoro of consultancy MDS Transmodal....
.... £22.50 Vin Neuf and other independents Benjamin Leroux 2018 Bourgogne Blanc 13%A blend of wines from the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune and outlying vineyards around Meursault put together with great skill by...
...She and her husband Benjamin, fourth-generation vignerons, were upset to have lost five hectares of production in the notorious French frosts of 2017, but this year she fears that 50ha of their vines may...
...When I discussed 2019 with the talented micro-négociant Benjamin Leroux, he asked rhetorically, “Why did they keep their freshness, especially the whites, which seemed to cope with the heat super-well?...
...And the two leaders it serves most are Mr Trump and Israel’s premier Benjamin Netanyahu, a like-minded hawk on Iran....
...But the great visual moment in the film is the Dustin Hoffman character, Benjamin Braddock, rushing over San Francisco’s Bay Bridge on the way to frustrate the young Ms Robinson’s wedding....
...The work made the 12 Fed Banks’ boards “moderately less white and meaningfully less male” but there was still much work to be done, said Benjamin Dulchin, who directs a campaign that lobbies the Fed on behalf...
...John Banville (having shed his crime writing alias “Benjamin Black”) sets up a classic murder mystery with his latest novel, then expertly turns it on its head....
...Letter in response to this editorial: Israel-UAE deal is a step to peaceful coexistence / From Stephen Horwitz, Bethesda, MD, US...
...Wage and productivity trends are intimately related, with global evidence (gathered by our Global Macro MD, Dario Perkins) that periods of overheating can generate higher productivity growth....
...Clay Ramsay Silver Spring, MD, US...
...Alongside a Benjamin West portrait of a demure Queen Charlotte (1776-77), one of the few outside the royal collection ($850,000), hangs a rather more transgressive portrait recently identified as Mary Robinson...
...Mr Benjamin tried to defend his remark on Thursday by saying it was a “joke” and suggesting that the MP was being “a massive bitch”....
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