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...A good mouthful for the money but not for keeping. £41 Corney & Barrow Bonnaire, Terroirs Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Brut NV Champagne All fine Chardonnay made by Paul Clouet of the eponymous brand....
...Also, vineyards: across the peninsula, varieties of Malvasia and the red Teran grape flourish alongside newer Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc and Merlot vines....
...Amanda Blanc, chief executive of insurer Aviva, becomes a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to business, gender equality and net zero....
...It is cultivated with Chardonnay grapes from two grand cru regions: Aÿ and the Côtes des Blancs....
...At the heart of Domaine des Lambrays, Bernard Arnault’s Grand Cru domaine in the Burgundy village of Morey-St Denis, stands a Lebanese cedar that was planted in 1637....
...It’s between a chef’s knife and a paring knife, and I do everything with it. korin.com Champagne Lallier Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru, £72.75This is my favourite champagne at the moment....
...It was cooked precisely and served with sorrel, a beurre blanc emulsion of vermouth for fragrance and smoked butter for a cheeky little whiff of a riverbank campfire. Finally, there came a soufflé....
...Rousseau Chambertin Clos de Bèze Grand Cru)....
...To the north, beyond a valley filled with a sea of clouds, rose the sparkling bulk of Mont Blanc. To the south, we looked across to the slopes of Courchevel, with Méribel and Val Thorens behind....
...Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru NV Champagne is a gutsy, slightly rustic, all-Chardonnay blend from the co-op in the Grand Cru village of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger that has benefited from all of five years...
...This first-house gig at Ronnie Scott’s captured the recording’s common cause and grand design with a series of musical vignettes that drew on a 14-strong cast including three drummers, two drum kits, brass...
...Not cheap but a bullseye expression of a Blanc de Blancs with some age on it. £55, £111 per magnum Private Cellar Lancelot-Pienne, Marie Lancelot Blanc de Blancs Cramant Grand Cru Extra Brut 2015 ChampagneLots...
...At the Grand Conseil of the Echansonnerie in the Palais des Papes in Avignon last month, listening to three hours of speeches by his fellow wine producers, he was wearing his long, red velvet robe with pride...
...Talking on a grand scale, these decisions get very complicated....
...A three-grand decanter of Louis XIII cognac might be a bit of a stretch, but if they love cognac you’ve now got The Drop, a 10ml miniature that costs a fraction of the price and can also be worn as a pendant...
...I made mental notes as I ran to remember the highs: the taste of cool spring water in a tiny hamlet on the descent from the 2,537-metre Grand Col Ferret; the sight of a majestic wooden cross in a hillside...
...on the scale of this grand makeover....
...And when Widmer moved to Julius Baer, it was Collardi he thought of as the young dynamo he could bring with him to look after the details of his grand new plans....
...The place that means a lot to me is the Western Highlands of Scotland. Most of the time I live in Switzerland and my home there overlooks Mont Blanc and Lake Geneva, and it’s beautiful....
...My bubbles of choice for a Crunchwrap Supreme would be Dhondt-Grellet Cramant Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut – it’s got the acid to stand up to the fat....
...Inside you will find selections such as Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage 2013; and the delectable Cuvée des Hussards Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru Brut 2012 from Frerejean Frères....
...Lazily watching a team of eight workers hand-pruning those vines brought a special bit of context to my glass of 2020 estate Sauvignon Blanc....
...“Oh look, he’s thrown in a crate of Cheval Blanc 1947, a display of outrageous boldness”....
...But the Ornellaia team decided to come to London to show off every vintage from the start of the white in 2013, made mainly from Sauvignon Blanc in tiny quantities....
...merit more attention, as we lunch on home-cooked artichoke lasagna and salads, and drink Moratti’s own excellent Pas Dosé blanc de noirs....
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