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...Should be broachable by Christmas but it’s still youthful. £24.99 Majestic Weinert, Cavas de Weinert 2011 Mendoza (14.5%)Argentine Bordeaux blend that’s already more than 12 years old....
...“I talked to one nice Australian visitor who joked, ‘I thought I’d just check that the whole place hadn’t been stolen,’” Beard says. It was a painful jest....
...Quite a few of the wines I tasted came from vineyards at between 1,800m and 2,000m, which is higher than many vineyards in Mendoza, Argentina’s most important Andean wine region....
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...“I felt like I’d found a secret place nobody else knew about.”...
...Clients may find it hard to visualise the end result, says Stephanie Barba Mendoza, who spent 10 years working for designer Martin Brudnizki before setting up her own practice....
...“I’d like to think we’re out of business in a year’s time,” Drury added....
...We’d been so focused on inputs, we had lost sight of the outputs that the algorithm was optimising.”...
...Mendoza is the most leftwing of the group....
...£18.99 Waitrose Lafite/Catena, Petit Caro 2017 Mendoza 14%A blend of 67 per cent Malbec and 33 per cent Cabernet Sauvignon, exuding Bordeaux subtlety, Argentine ripeness and mountain clarity....
...But by experimenting with the various barrel samples I’d been sent – covering different vintages, grape varieties, vine ages and soil types – I eventually produced a pleasing concoction....
...He moves on to his next course: cherry tomatoes and avocado with Mont d’Or cheese. I have the same salad, with an English goat’s cheese. What can be done to break into that echo chamber?...
...Both Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon ripen well, but end up folded into the unambitious, mawkish Cabernet d’Anjou rosé....
...Trade negotiations are always tricky and you’d expect both sides to be miles apart at this stage of the negotiations....
...The Cave de Tain is among France’s finest wine co-ops and this vintage is stunning. 13% Weinert, Carrascal Corte Clásico 2015 Mendoza £10.95 The Wine Society It might not pass muster with a wine technocrat...
...In what appeared to be a thinly veiled threat, Mr Duterte in December said of the Lopez family’s stake in ABS-CBN: “If I were you, I’d sell it.”...
...One task involved serving a Sauternes when there was only the dry wine from Château d’Yquem (strictly a Bordeaux, not a Sauternes) and a South African sweet wine, Vin de Constance, available....
...Since then, Julian Philips, the British composer, and Vince Mendoza, conductor and composer. How physically fit are you? Pretty fit....
...I’d go for the magnificent Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon 2006 (£159.95 The Finest Bubble)....
...The Mendoza Review, established by the UK government to investigate public spending on museums and galleries, reported in 2017 that funds in England had declined by 13 per cent, from £829m in 2007 to £720m...
...The daughters: Ciana (left) and Chrissi Ayre By India Ross “Six feet two inches,” says Ciana Ayre, glancing skyward. “When you’re a kid, that seems gigantic.”...
...A key role in making the meeting happen was played by the Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana....
...That 2013 Flower Day wine had the intensity you’d expect of a top Grand Cru white burgundy....
...Zorzal, Eggo Tinto de Tiza Malbec 2014 Mendoza 13.5% £15.99 Slurp The Michelini brothers made this in fashionable concrete eggs from vines grown high in the Andes....
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