Hints and tips:
...Well, I’d probably start out as a pilot, but a pilot from the 1950s – drinking whisky and smoking in the cockpit. So I’d probably get fired, and then I’d be an antiques dealer....
...Names such as Beaumont, Belle-Vue, Le Boscq, Cambon La Pelouse, Charmail, Clement Pichon, Deyrem Valentin, Lilian Ladouys, Malescasse, Moulin Rouge, Noaillac, Patache d’Aux, Paveil de Luze, Petit Bocq, Peyrabon...
...Perhaps it was the family feel: Le Potager was founded by two brothers, restaurateur David Valentin and trained naturopath Adrien Valentin....
...July 21-25, jazzaldia.eus Bayreuth Festival, Germany This year’s Wagner-athon brings back Valentin Schwarz’s modern, decadent Ring cycle, which premiered to mixed reviews last year, alongside stagings...
...Valentin agrees: “You can’t just take the notes and do nothing with them.”...
...The brand’s true creative heyday — and one that it plunders for inspiration often — was in the 1960s and 1970s when Valentin Piaget pushed boundaries to tempt hedonistic tastemakers du jour, including Andy...
...Painted by Valentin Serov, a full-length portrait of Mikhail hints at his excessive tendencies, buttons straining over his tailcoat....
...“What’s putting young people off are all of the political deals,” said Valentin Manent, a 32-year-old who had travelled from Paris for the convention....
...Valentin was priming the cooking stoves for breakfast while his colleagues secured the cargo into the roughly hewn canoes that were to take us through these troubled waters....
...As Paloma San Valentin, managing director for the Americas at Moody’s, put it this week, there is now a “growing risk to corporate credit quality around the world”....
...She was doing this trip with five clumsy stitches across a knee she’d recently slashed in a fall. It didn’t matter that she couldn’t scramble up to the puffin nests....
...There is a strongly sung Valentin from Stéphane Degout and Marta Fontanals-Simmons makes a lively Siébel. Carole Wilson is a hoot in the small role of Marthe....
...I’d love to own Mika Morozov, which is in the Tretyakov in Moscow – my favourite gallery in the world – or The Coronation of Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia....
...“It makes the journey much longer,” said Valentin Gaudillat, a 24-year-old student at business school in Lyon....
...The photos by Valentin Jeck command attention. Unsentimental in their honesty, they document the ambition and neglect of the best of these buildings....
...Follow Jancis on Twitter @JancisRobinson Some alternatives to red burgundy and German Pinot Noir Alsace Albert Mann Muré André Ostertag Valentin Zusslin Austria Ebner Ebenauer Johanneshof Reinisch Loimer...
...I’d say, hit the bid, sell out and take my $4 million… They don’t want to go back to the banks and back to fiat....
...Dominique Arangoits, technical director at Château Cos d’Estournel, looked rather shell-shocked when showing his (particularly fresh) 2016s earlier this month....
...“If Putin’s name was Oleg, there’d be a cult of the all-powerful Oleg by now,” quipped the writer Oleg Kashin....
...All were the sort of people you’d expect to be customers of a cool, new Berlin-based startup that claimed to be better than the banks....
...His friendship with Ms Dyachenko and Valentin Yumashev, Ms Dyachenko’s husband and then Yeltsin’s chief of staff, has been confirmed by the FT....
...Valentin Marinov, strategist at Citi, notes that “in the past, whenever those reserves picked up, it added to the incentive to diversify”....
...In recent vintages Château Pichon Longueville has been one obviously reliable candidate, as has Château Cos d’Estournel (with the exception of its rather odd 2009 vintage)....
...Under the scheme – named Lyon, Place d’échanges, a nod to the former stock exchange – the local authorities will introduce regional investors to companies seeking finance....
...Valentin Marinov, currency strategist at Citigroup, said: “Investors will be mindful of the fact that further excessive currency strength could trigger an ECB response sooner than expected.”...
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