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...This instalment of my guide to starting a cellar on a budget is devoted to European wine-producing countries east of either France or Italy....
...international management consultancy; Swiss chocolate group Lindt & Sprüngli’s chair Ernst Tanner; Austrian industrialist Hans Peter Haselsteiner; and pet food tycoon Torsten Toeller....
...Prominent entrepreneurs and captains of industry have also invested, including Ernst Tanner, chief executive of chocolatier Lindt & Sprüngli; Torsten Toeller, the pet food magnate; Hans Peter Haselsteiner...
...This follows 49 per cent of 25- to 34-year-olds who voted for Marine Le Pen in France’s second-round presidential vote in April — five times more than voted for her father in 2002....
...In 2015, South Korea overtook the US and Japan in China’s cosmetics market to become the second-biggest player, after France....
...Inside the lines Italy has a centuries-long tradition of being a hub for tanners, textile makers and artisans....
....£19.99 for 37.5cl Waitrose Cellar Dom de Rancy, Macabeu Rancio Sec NV Côtes Catalanes 17%A sensational find from Roussillon in the south-west of France....
....£6.99 Lidl, part of their Christmas Wine Tour while stocks last Alexandre Cady, Résilience Chenin Blanc 2021 Vin de France 12%No hurry to drink this Loire product of fire and frost, a wine with great purity...
...Soane works with about 40 workshops, including a glass blower, a leather tanner and fabric printers. They are dotted around Britain and some might disappear without Lytle’s support....
...Ditto Jurançon from south-west France based on Petit Manseng grapes. This may be because, like Riesling, Chenin Blanc and Petit Manseng are relatively high in acidity....
...The natural tanginess of the Manseng grapes keeps this medium-sweet wine from south-west France refreshing and much more interesting than the price suggests. 12% Sanchez Romate, Fino Perdido NV Sherry...
...Lives Between homes in Malta, south of France and Chelsea At 23 I had bought a 30-room hotel in Bournemouth....
...But many governments worry about the impact of falling fertility on their own nation’s gross domestic product: Germany, Singapore, France and Poland pay baby bonuses to encourage couples to have children...
...Great purity and a certain stoniness. 13% Ch Barréjat, Tradition 2016 Madiran, SW France £10.50, £21.50 a magnum, £87.50 a five-litre jeroboam; Stone, Vine & Sun Pure fruit trumps the notorious tannins...
...Godfrey Spence, a wine educator specialising in fortified wines, told me at the BFT how frustrating it was trying to prise sherries, virtually unobtainable in France, out of the Consejo for a weekend class...
...Convincing chewiness on the finish. 13.9% Domaine Borgeot, La Chaponnière 2016 Rully, Burgundy, France £22 Tanners Proof that the Côte Chalonnaise to the south of the famous Côte d’Or is catching up fast...
..., Les Entrecoeurs Domaine Mucyn 2016£15.95 Tanners Ugni BlancDelamain Pale & Dry Cognac, France£100 Berry Bros & Rudd Regions and appellations particularly threatened by the spread of GTD Loire Valley...
...On his return to England, he worked as a journalist before fleeing to France in 1835 to avoid his creditors. Profligacy and financial irresponsibility were features of his life....
...From the family company Yalumba. 12% Ch Rives-Blanques 2016 Blanquette de Limoux £13.90 Tanners Limoux makes some of France’s best-value sparkling wine and this one is the classic local style rather than...
...Bacalhôa 2015 Moscatel de Setúbal, Portugal £11.95 Tanners Strong amber Muscat infused with grapey flavour thanks to several months’ maceration of the grape skins that leaves a refreshing grip on the finish...
...Sancerre and Chablis are barely more than 100km from each other, so what you are tasting is white wine made from slowly ripened white grapes on low hills in France’s cool heart....
...Researchers based in the UK take 66 of the 269 ERC awards, followed by Germany (42 grants) and France (34). The figures demonstrate the strength of UK science....
...He was famously absent-minded, once being so engrossed in conversation that he fell into a tanner’s pit. He never married, and he had no children....
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