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...Robinson was born in Atlanta in 1935, a scion of a prominent southern banking family....
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...And there is a ready secondary market for wine with a good reputation, should you wish to sell some....
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...My first wine encounter after a stint in hospital with double pneumonia was a lunch with fellow members of a group known as “The 1950 Babes”, although only three of us are female....
...And in the UK, since August 1, we have had the additional imposition of a new and complex duty system tied to alcohol content which has added 44p a bottle to most still wines....
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...I am still using a cast iron omelette pan bought (with several other items still going strong) from a 1968-69 catalogue of Elizabeth David, the British cookery writer....
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...There was admittedly one evening when I welcomed a mouthful or two of 10-year-old madeira, but I think that was more as a linctus than a taste treat. My tastes have changed completely....
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...He’d had to leave promptly to get a train to Liverpool. All I had to do was walk home and slump in a chair....
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