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...His father joined Domecq, an important family-run sherry business (now owned by a Filipino brandy producer) in 1974....
...; a glass of brandy to steady the nerves....
...In “Boy Carrying a Sword”, Manet’s son/stepson is costumed as a Spanish court page with a full-size sword, perhaps suggesting the weight of his uncertain paternity....
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...“The warmth of brandy is very like that of mother’s love,” she opines poignantly in 1949. Not exactly surprising, then, is her heavy drinking....
...“We may think of [it] as a rise or fall of the water but the real movement is [a] long, fast, shallow, rotatory wave, swirling brandy-like around the ocean basins”....
...La Mancha’s dominant grape is the pale-skinned Airén, long dismissed as fit only for producing grape concentrate and base wine for brandy....
...I love colourful antique Chinese versions, such as the early 19th-century Canton punch bowl currently being sold by Kevin Page Oriental Art (pictured below)....
...Historically the 1922 chair is a discreet figure, dispensing candid advice to prime ministers over a brandy in Number 10....
...Producers have been forced to turn surplus grapes into juice, grape concentrate, brandy and even hand sanitiser. So, what’s the good news about South African wine? The sheer beauty of it, that’s what....
...Tasting notes on Purple Pages of JancisRobinson.com. Follow Jancis on Twitter @JancisRobinson. Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...(FT) Facebook targets QAnon Facebook announced that it would remove all QAnon pages ahead of the US election, following pressure to clamp down on the pro-Trump conspiracy theory....
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...A wasted 20 minutes and 20 page tabs later, you give up in despair, cursing the day internet shopping was invented. Serena Hood and Lucinda Chambers are here to change that....
...A glut of plums led to Duncan whipping up several giant Kilner jars worth of plum brandy....
...Vikram Seth adds meat curry and rice to a menu of cream of asparagus soup, fried fish, mushroom vol-au-vents and Christmas pudding with brandy sauce in A Suitable Boy....
...Such characters — and Board is by no means the least virtuous in these pages — barely deserve so fine a memorialist as Howse....
...The Serbian contingent drove 15 hours to be here, armed with Šljivovica brandy for post-race toasting....
...(In fact so obsessed is Lee with Gandhi’s supposed deviousness that he repeats part of a paragraph on this from page 316 on page 392.)...
...The light-skinned Airen, much of it used for brandy, was for decades recognised as the world’s most-planted variety, or at least the one planted on the biggest area of vineyard....
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...A strong apple brandy perfuses the fruit pulp, which balances sweet and tart. The custard has a faint caramel edge to it and there’s enough cream to instil modest frivolity....
...idea that “ . . . after you’ve been rubbing your bowl with garlic and anointing it with oil for some years, it will have acquired the patina of a Corinthian bronze and the personality of a 100-year-old brandy...
...Food processor plus unsalted butter plus icing sugar plus hooch of some sort magically produces brandy butter (usually on Christmas Eve). My sister-in-law often makes the Christmas pudding....
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