Hints and tips:
...Ferran Centelles, Spanish specialist for JancisRobinson.com, particularly recommends the Montsants of “super-top producers such as Vinyes Domènech or Joan D’Anguera”....
...I’d love to plant Chenin Blanc, for instance.”...
...Every evening at the beginning of this horrible sick period I’d try another sort of wine, and every evening it would seem less and less alluring. Not that I lost my sense of smell. Far from it....
...I recommend the deft hand of Dr Suha Kersh at 23MD clinic (from £750). When it comes to thermal devices, I’m very cautious. Why “melt” facial fat to tighten the face?...
...The main red-wine grape here is the transparent Nerello Mascalese but I’m not convinced that the wines need that long in bottle....
...I’m also an admirer of the wines of négociant Tardieu-Laurent....
...Is there a tradition that you’d like to challenge? I’m not sure red bordeaux is ideal for turkey....
...There are so many wines to choose from that in this article I’m focusing solely on Bordeaux....
...I’m going to try and go more often. The things I couldn’t do without are Dr Hauschka hand cream and Sharpie fluorescent pens....
...Approaching a half-century, I’m already preoccupied by thoughts of decrepitude and death....
...The Browetts’ last visit, on Sunday morning, was to Massolino in Serralunga d’Alba....
...I’m happy with that. Neuraé will launch on 2 April at neuraeparis.com...
...I may have qualified as a Master of Wine and have been immersed in wine professionally since 1975 but I’d never style myself an “expert”....
...“I’m a woman over 40, I’m not white, I’m gay, I’m a mother,” she says. “None of these things should prevent me from making music.”...
...But I’m not sure we’re seeing that many distressed parcels of Australian wine in the UK....
...Dr Bronner’s Pure-Castile Bar Soap, £6.49....
...If they got too radical, they’d be replaced.” Scientists and politicians, not businesspeople, are the heroes of Robinson’s books....
...Earlier this summer, I issued a call to readers: What would you like to ask the Jancis Robinson?...
...I’m thinking they’d go nicely in the bedroom. The beauty staple I’m never without is a hot shower....
...At 41, I’d like to wear shorts and a swimsuit without feeling self-conscious....
...It reminded me of one or two Bulgarian wineries I’d visited in the 1980s before EU money was poured in to spruce them up....
...And I’m quite happy to pour white or rosé and then red wine in the same glass....
...“I’m a man, I’m straight, but I’m very sensitive. I used to wear Dr Martens and listen to Yann Tiersen…” He chuckles. “I know it seems crazy to say that now....
...I’m keen to hear your view —isabel.berwick@ft.com....
...We’d probably be allowed to plant only about a third of the vines we’ve got today....
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