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Jancis Robinson’s series about how to build an affordable cellar
...The judges reached their decision after a six-hour meeting on Saturday, just days after Dublin was gripped by rioting following a knife attack at a school....
...Those investments include a heavily impaired £30mn stake in a challenger bank, more than £40mn in property funds managed by M7 and a further £47mn in often-opaque investment vehicles at Robinson’s own firm...
...About half of this money was through a convertible loan for the national newspaper, and half in a loan of similar size to the family from IMI relating to other parts of the Barclay family business empire...
...Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson (Virago/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)A “radiant, thrilling interpretation” as a work of great literature by one of America’s leading novelists and thinkers....
...Even a tasting of a winery’s basic range costs $81 on average and, if visitors want a tour too, they could end up paying far more....
...And what a meal it is: Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, the 44th documentary from Frederick Wiseman, focuses on a renowned three-Michelin-star restaurant in Ouches, central France....
...Robinson knows her biblical scholarship, and she is no literalist, remarking that to propose anything other than human authorship is “a notable instance of our having a lower opinion of ourselves than the...
...His Amarones are a world away from commercial examples....
...It was surprisingly easy to confuse a fine Grüner with a fine Chardonnay....
...Another strange alternative reality faces him: a year as the Booker Prize winner. Frederick Studemann is the FT’s literary editor...
...But I have a colleague on Jancis Robinson.com, Tamlyn Currin, who specialises in detailed analysis of the interaction between her inventive dishes on the one hand and her cellar on the other....
...But a more easily graspable point is that cork forests act as a significant carbon sink....
...Arguably a more significant development is the Spanish wine revolution....
...Set in an Ireland of the near future where the elected National Alliance has declared a state of emergency, the novel follows Eilish Stack, a scientist, mother and wife of a trade unionist arrested by the...
...Robinson was born in Atlanta in 1935, a scion of a prominent southern banking family....
...Italy has many wines that deserve a place in a decent cellar because they really do improve with time in bottle. And it’s not just the reds....
...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 there is a ready secondary market for wine with a good reputation, should you wish to sell some....
...HOLD: Saga (SAGA) The travel division of the insurer has returned to profit for the first time since the pandemic, writes Mark Robinson....
...A high-profile politician whose career is taking off publishes a book tapping into the spirit of the age....
...It was also in the castle of Lucera that Frederick experimented with camel breeding. For half a century, Lucera was a functioning Islamic city....
...Next month A Shining will be published, a story that his British publisher Fitzcarraldo described as “strange, haunting and dreamlike”, following “a man who starts driving without knowing where he is going...
...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....
...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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