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...I instinctively swerved the 2010 Domaine Leflaive — Chevalier-Montrachet at £5,335, and the extensive list of champagnes, and ordered instead a brusque and highly professional sounding martini....
...Since 2011, it has been owned by cousins Martin Shaw and Michael Hill Smith, who ship the freshly picked grapes via Launceston and Melbourne to their winery in the hills above Adelaide in South Australia...
...I shared a table with Le Monde’s wine writer Laure Gasparotto, Neal Martin of Vinous.com and my fellow Master of Wine, Tom Parker of fine wine trader Farr Vintners....
...Hundred Suns, Lavinea, Morgen Long, Martin Woods, Mills Wine Company, Sequitur, Shea Wine Cellars, Suzor, Thomas, Trathen Hall, Trisaetum and Vincent Wine....
...In Burgundy, where domaines measure output in bottles rather than cases of wine, O’Connell has doubts about whether all producers can keep up with the top marques such as Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue or...
...The rustic 13th-century Domaine des Etangs château in the rolling Cognac countryside is a notable example....
...There was the odd whisper that wine writers Neal Martin and Allen Meadows were expected too, but there was no sign of any wine merchants....
...businessman, Martin Bouygues....
...Martin Wolf is the FT’s chief economics commentator Letter in response to this article: Your usual table Mr Keynes?...
...Take a left and you find yourself in an oenophile’s Elysium, with bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti stacked floor to ceiling....
...Great value. 13.5% Ch St-Martin 2012 Listrac-Médoc £10 Waitrose, 4-17 December (usually £14.99) A classic Merlot-dominant claret with a bit of age but also a few more years’ life in it....
...Helan Qingxue, Ningxia Helanshan Manor, Ningxia Huailai Amethyst Manor, Hebei Kanaan, Ningxia Martin, Hebei Silver Heights, Ningxia Tasting notes on JancisRobinson.com....
...For burgundy fans, Platts-Martin’s lists offer copious vintages of Domaine François Raveneau’s coveted Chablis (The Ledbury currently has 2007 Grand Cru “Valmur” at £275, more than £60 below the cheapest...
...New York sommeliers have been in full cry in their pursuit of mature bottles of Clos Rougeard, from the long-standing Foucault family operation that seems on the brink of being sold to French billionaire Martin...
...The invitees for this special event were a mixture of Lalou’s old tasting mates, such as Pierre Troisgros and Georges Duboeuf, and newer media such as Neal Martin of The Wine Advocate, Antonio Galloni (ex...
...In all there are about 4,000 producers of France’s famous spirit but more than 90 per cent of what they make is tankered away for blending at the “big four” cognac houses – Rémy Martin, Hennessy, Courvoisier...
...Premier Cru names worth looking out for include La Bondue, Champs Martin, Clos l’Evêque, Clos du Roi and En Sazenay....
...In its eight-year history, the Liv-ex Power 100, a list of the most influential fine wine brands, has been led by either a first growth from Bordeaux’s left bank or Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Burgundy’...
...Martin Bremond, head economist at Artprice, thinks the drop is the result of less inventory being released to the market at this time of year....
...Imagine my delight when inspection of the shelves of the local charcutier in St-Martin-de-Belleville revealed a bottle of Mondeuse Blanche, mother (or father) of our very own Syrah/Shiraz, of which a mere...
...Martin Bouygues, the billionaire who runs Free’s rival and France’s third largest mobile network Bouygues Telecom, sniffed, “I have no intention of letting the gypsies on to my chateau’s lawns”, whereupon...
...To some extent the same applies to Aston Martin DB5s, which routinely crop up at auction in numbers that belie their relative rarity....
...This year our 16 tasters included six Masters of Wine, my fellow wine writers Neal Martin and Steven Spurrier, and experienced buyers of Bordeaux from many of Britain’s top wine merchants and wine traders...
...Winkworth and Knight Frank are jointly selling Domaine de la Colombe d’Or, a country estate with 30 acres of olive groves and one of the biggest properties in the region, for €5.9m....
...Made entirely from Albillo vines, its complexity is explained by the fact that it is grown in four organically farmed parcels in the valley of San Martin de Valdeiglesias....
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