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...Additional reporting by Peter Campbell, Joshua Franklin, Dave Lee, Hannah Murphy and Michael O’Dwyer...
...There’s more cocktail making at home going on . . . people are trading up from brandy to cognac, from cheap drinks to expensive drinks,” said Mr Mundy....
...It was the Christmas when the puddings were laced with cognac, not brandy, and when we swapped sausage rolls for salmon and scallop tarts....
...Later, sharp-witted Amabel Hume-Campbell witnesses the great man’s stately funeral procession up the Thames with, she admits, “a little Superstitious Awe”....
...Kurt M Campbell is chairman and chief executive of the Asia Group and former assistant secretary of state for east Asia and the Pacific...
...Just as “brandy comes in a snifter”, “cigars come in wood-panelled rooms”, he says, even if those panels now hide plasma television screens and mini-bars....
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