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.... £9.99 Majestic J Navascués, Cutio Garnacha/Carineña 2020 Carineña (14.5%)Mainly Grenache with Carignan from a star winemaker....
...Also pushing boundaries is Guerlain, which has collaborated with the Yves Klein Archives to create a 110th anniversary edition of its L’Heure Bleue perfume (€15,000)....
...The late Denis Durantou of Ch L’Église-Clinet was responsible for it and it’s a fine memorial to his skills....
...Last year Mr Lagardère appeared on the front page of left-leaning daily newspaper Libération with the headline “Papa, j’ai rétréci l’empire” — “Dad, I shrunk the empire.”...
...It’s pronounced “J’ai du tout”, which means “I have a little of everything” – and it certainly does! There are glazed chestnuts, chocolates, olive oils, all sorts of canned sardines and on and on....
...Hermitage • M Chapoutier, L’Ermite Ermitage • M Chapoutier, Pavillon Ermitage • Domaine J L Chave Hermitage Blanc • Ferraton Père et Fils, Le Reverdy Hermitage Blanc...
...CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed, by Frédéric Chaubin, Taschen, RRP£34.99, 288 pages The sheer modernist exuberance of postwar communist concrete expressionism is little known....
...“Je pense que, j’aimerais que …L’humeur, l’humour, le mur, l’amour”…We repeat in unison and on our own and we love it! What an improvement....
...Drink or, ideally, keep. 13 per cent £30 Majestic Fine Wine Dom J M Boillot, Vireuls 2006 Meursault Rich yet savoury....
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