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...Diageo has fuelled strong growth in recent years partly through high-end spirits acquisitions such as George Clooney’s Casamigos tequila, bought in 2017 in a deal worth up to $1bn, and its purchase of Don...
...The magic of the kitchen and the season transformed imported ingredients into the most British of festive foods: mulled wine, Christmas cake, nut roast, marzipan, gingerbread, chocolates, orange jelly, rum...
...“We were going to do something focused on rum or champagne,” he says, “but then our members’ love of tequila just took over and our plans had to change.”...
...Drinks group Diageo’s $1bn deal for George Clooney’s Casamigos tequila brand brought plenty of Hollywood glamour but was also met with scepticism....
...Yet, in polite society, each of those names still carries far less stigma than George W Bush or Tony Blair do for the active debacle of the Iraq war....
...Rum with George Washington or Diet Coke with Donald Trump? I know which one gets my vote. @alicelascelles...
...Rees-Mogg told my colleague George Parker in a recent edition of The Week in Westminster podcast that UK Reach would work to expose UK companies to global competition....
...The Dunmore hotel near the island’s famous Pink Sands Beach is incredible; order a Rum Dum at sunset....
...We crossed to Uist in a CalMac ferry from Mallaig, sailing into the setting sun, past the islands of Muck, Eigg and Rum. It took us three hours....
...Still my beloved Ligne St Barth bath and beauty products, founded by locals Birgit and Hervé Brin in 1983, who sold them directly to sunbathers on the beach in repurposed rum bottles....
...If the combination of these three sounds rum, wait till you see the film. Dujardin plays Georges, dapper but unravelling. His marriage over, he leaves the suburbs for a mountain resort....
...Then, it’s Mendes’s favourite, octopus with white bean stew, brought to the table in a black cauldron pot, with chilli and rum oil to drizzle over....
...His syrup-brown bottle sculptures, swirled in royal blue to evoke the sea crossings, provide a reminder of the importance of rum in the slave trade....
...The restaurant’s rum bar, closed because of coronavirus, was repurposed as a warehouse for the donations....
...Recent sales through whisky.auction include a commemorative mini of 50yo Appleton Rum for £600, a Baccarat miniature of Rémy Martin Louis XIII for £340, a pair of George Dickel Tennessee whiskies for £115...
...A rum kind of isolation, an observing China might have thought. If the Atlantic is widening, it is not because of the caprice of one president....
...There’s also a bottle of rum that, given what happened the last time I drank rum, I hope never to have resort to, no matter how long the crisis endures....
...I dearly wished to pay homage, but two rum punches weren’t enough to quell my teenage nerves. In this parallel holiday universe, I’ll drink three more, and help George push Sting into the pool....
...The Pimento Jamaican Kitchen became a food hub and the chain’s rum bar was repurposed as a warehouse to receive donations....
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...You’ll find a great butcher called Boucherie Ché Yo’ in St Jean, just behind the airport, and Le Ti-Marché in L’Orient is the place for passion fruit, avocados and rum from Guadeloupe....
...It is a great shout for rum — the Dark and Stormy cocktail is normally where things start to go blurry. Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP and co-author of the amendment, called the delay “outrageous” while Commons speaker Mr Bercow said it was “a rum business” and blamed the “inexperience” of government whips....
...Which brand of rum has the white ensign flag on the label? Who was the mother of James I? Which Nineties TV sitcom was set in the offices of GlobeLink News?...
...There’s nothing regal about Kingston’s Coronation Market, which honours King George VI in name only and has been a cornerstone of the Jamaican capital for almost 80 years....
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