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...The book includes a handful of photographs of its author with various women: Stella Sichel, his Fulbright scholar wife; Baroness Philippine de Rothschild; and, less predictably, Gloria Steinem....
...• Petrus £23,500 • Lafite £6,000 • Haut-Brion (in magnum) £4,660 • Cos d’Estournel £1,400 Best value • Gloria £375 • Gruaud Larose £540 • Nénin £360 • Potensac £215 • Poujeaux £280 Stockists...
...The top properties, so flush with the cash generated by the 2009 and 2010 primeurs sales that whole new wineries have been or are being built at Châteaux Cheval Blanc, Mouton, Palmer, Margaux, Le Pin and...
...He orders an iced tea; I go for an Arnold Palmer – iced tea and lemonade....
...We had a very strange bottle of Ch Palmer that tasted as though it had been aged in popcorn-infused oak; its stablemate, Alter Ego, smelt of butterscotch....
...to their penance – three days purgatory, one night in sleepless vigil, eating almost nothing, repeatedly processing barefoot while reciting 63 Glorias, 234 Creeds, 891 Our Fathers and 1,458 Hail Marys....
...The performance of Dirge saw chairs pushed around aggressively by Joshua Palmer and Alexander Schwartz, while Yo-Yo Ma played Bach....
...GAMBLING – CHINA GLORIA LOTTERIES Lotteries are a national pastime in China....
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