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...Export volumes of cognac, a brandy produced from white wine grapes in western France, fell 18.9 per cent between August 2022 and the end of July this year, according to the cognac producer’s association...
...Its wine choices are guided by the recommendations of the Government Wine Committee, which consists of retired diplomat Sir David Wright and four masters of wine....
...His father joined Domecq, an important family-run sherry business (now owned by a Filipino brandy producer) in 1974....
...Flaming brandy and aspic as social capital. The backlash against Cradock’s blatant social ambition was expressed by the impeccably patrician Elizabeth David....
...“If you do it in one fell swoop, it is an action plan,” said Brandy Aven, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper business school....
...Thérèse Coffey [secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs] and David Kennedy [Defra director-general for food, biosecurity and trade] are beyond comedy and laughing stocks, they have not...
...We’re offered brandies but it feels like a stretch. As we begin to wrap up, Smith says, “We’re going to make a deal . . ....
...Co-founder David Berwick was formerly a winemaker in Suffolk: “Then I came to St Ives, drawn by its festival feel, and basically never went home....
...Siembra Valles is made by David Suro-Piñera, a conservationist whose mission is to get American consumers to buy responsibly made tequila, mostly by educating bartenders like Mix....
...“If you were on the Titanic it’s where you would have gone for brandy and cigars after dinner,” was Jang’s take. “It’s class....
...Then eat and drink under army-green canvas at David Carter’s brawny BBQ restaurant in east London....
...Historically the 1922 chair is a discreet figure, dispensing candid advice to prime ministers over a brandy in Number 10....
...I also love How Music Works by David Byrne – I found it fascinating to read about the evolution of music in relation to performance space. I’m not sure if I’ll make any New Year’s resolutions....
...When she dies from syphilis, Moll’s coffin becomes an impromptu tavern bar, at which the parson spills his brandy as he shoves his hand up a mourning whore’s skirt. You want to look, you want to flee....
...“As the world is changing more around us, so we shut ourselves more in,” says David Milne, curator of Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields, London....
...“The pictures remind me of David Hockney because of the swimming pools.” And therein lies the allure of all these works: you just want to dive right in....
...In his first world war memoirs David Lloyd George, later prime minister but chancellor at the start of the conflict, describes how London’s role as the financier of global trade was shattered in days....
...David Cameron found it expedient to conceal his love of shooting....
...His only ally is Brandy the dog (a noted animal lover, Gervais has a lovely rapport with the handsome hound)....
...A glut of plums led to Duncan whipping up several giant Kilner jars worth of plum brandy....
...“Look at David Cameron, George Osborne, the Miliband brothers, Danny Alexander....
...‘Brandy and cigars’ Board members are widely regarded as less independent-minded after long service....
...In other artist representation news, David Zwirner has joined forces with Victoria Miro to share the sought-after, Nigerian-born Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who now lives in Los Angeles....
...Or among the army men who spent their days in parades and drills, quaffing beer and brandy-pawnee and waiting for action, less frequent after the 1857 mutiny....
...David Amblevert, president of France’s nurserymen’s federation, contests this, saying the problem is latent in vineyards rather than in new plant material....
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