Hints and tips:
...“I’d like to buy more land in Beaune....
...Among those who prefer it to the larger Alpe d’Huez is Britain-born instructor Alex Armand of Tip Top Ski Coaching, who lives there with her French husband Sébastien....
...“I’d like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin,” Cézanne said of these late landscapes....
...“Chef Armand Arnal invites you to choose, discover and taste according to your preferences.”...
...“Otherwise I’d be a monk,” he laughs. Designer Pierre Coddens agrees: “If you want to create objects and projects with soul, you need to have fun. Without fun… the objects will be meaningless.”...
...Following the oil shock of 1973, then-president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing ordered an unprecedented expansion of nuclear generation....
...Van der Wee’s recent projects include a restoration of the facade of Hôtel Solvay: Horta’s grand town house on the stately Avenue Louise for Armand Solvay — son of the chemist, industrialist and founder...
...GauZ’ is the pen name of Ivorian-born Patrick Armand-Gbaka Brede....
...France’s stake will be held through the Banque Publique d’Investissement, a state-backed business development bank which currently has a 19.9 per cent stake in Eutelsat....
...“Before I met her, I’d been thinking about people that I’d like to do a rosé with, and Kylie was at the top of that list,” says Schaafsma. “She’s about fun, music and partying.”...
...bordeaux, Ch Latour 1970 (long since drunk, unfortunately), a case of Ch de Fargues 1983 (a particularly fine Sauternes – one bottle remains) and a 12-bottle case of red burgundy, the 1989 vintage of Domaine Armand...
...Four of the earliest additions to the Loeb list, resulting from these trips, were the legendary producers Ch Rayas of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Armand Rousseau of Gevrey-Chambertin, Henri Gouges of Nuits-St-Georges...
...And you’d struggle, really, to hang a coat on most of the characters or to spy any nuance in the story. But then veracity is never this show’s thing....
...“If this was a celebrity brand, I’d have been on billboards,” he said. “We don’t cut corners or lean on fame to sell the product. We’ve built it through passion and integrity.”...
...Years ago, if you’d suggested drinking English sparkling wine most people would tell you that you’d lost control of your senses. Too acidic, they’d say....
...Even aficionados of French painting will find new things here, such as the stunning 1900s landscapes dabbed pink, purple, turquoise: “Valley of the Sedelle, Crozant”, “Dam at Genetin” by Armand Guillaumin...
...Jay-Z began this week (figuratively) shaking hands with LVMH boss Bernard Arnault in a deal to expand his Armand de Brignac champagne (coined in his raps as “that Ace of Spades”) globally; the very next...
...But I’d say carpe diem. @alicelascelles...
...“When I was arrested previously, in Munich, I discovered I’d been the victim of a mafia,” she says. “This felt the same, only worse — because this is actually legal.”...
...Let us pass lightly over the Armand de Brignac Ace of Spades champagne decorated with Swarovski crystals and cross the Atlantic to California, where the market still seems to be able to bear prices most...
...Jay Z, who also part-owns the D’Usse VSOP Cognac brand, “is a very shrewd businessman, an aspirational figure for African-Americans. He isn’t a wild party animal.”...
...Frost in April 2003 had reduced the crop, so yields were relatively low, but last year’s crop in the Côte d’Or was notably generous and the total volume of Côte d’Or reds in 2018 was 16 per cent higher than...
...Armand D’Angour begs to differ....
...A bottle of Domaine Armand Rousseau’s Chambertin, for example, would cost a four-figure sum — except that it would rarely be offered by the single bottle....
...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....
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