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...China’s trade spat with Brussels escalated as it launched a new investigation into French brandy imports. It follows the EU’s move to investigate Beijing’s support for the electric car industry....
...for starting an investigation into subsidies to electric vehicle imports by threatening antidumping duties on European brandy....
...It’s quicker than taking the goods by ship (especially right now) and cheaper than by air....
...A ship-boy paddled around the fountain in a canoe, filling up guests’ cups, and the party continued until the cocktail ran dry, which took a week....
...It needs the money in part to fund the mythological autos, the first of which ships later this year....
...He writes that in his part of the south coast “we have a centuries-old tradition of smuggling (‘brandy for the parson, baccy for the clerk’), and are ready to set out in our little ships to Dunkirk or wherever...
...Such cliché-affirming sights no doubt satisfy the 50,000-plus cruise ship visitors that call here every austral summer....
...We knew Nelson’s body had been brought back in a barrel of brandy, so we bought a glass of brandy and dipped the hair in it....
...Thomas Fremantle’s ship, he writes to his beloved Betsey, is given the melancholy honour of towing the Victory home after Trafalgar, pausing only in Gibraltar to re-pickle Nelson’s body in fresh brandy....
...cloth and spools of wire they proposed to barter with local tribespeople, along with tents, bedding, guns, barometers and pedometers, rain gauges and thermometers, chisels and saws, knives and umbrellas, brandy...
...Yet China’s discovery that it loved the twice-distilled brandy from France’s Cognac region proved far more potent....
...My favourite, though, is the mischievously-named Shipwreck, a brandy aged for 15 years in oak barrels retrieved from a beached cargo ship off Devon’s coast in 2007....
...My boss’s breakfast – brandy – was kept in bottles in the bottom left-hand drawer of our shared desk....
...Despite a complimentary bottle of brandy and copious lush carpeting, there were signs that Melville House didn’t possess quite the opulence Emily had anticipated....
...When all were out, I nearly had to use force to get him to swallow an ounce of stock brandy. “It is you that should be having this, nurse, not me.”...
...Powerfully pure examples of France’s rural brandy-distilling at its best....
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