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Jancis Robinson’s series about how to build an affordable cellar
...UK food-to-go retailer Greggs said it would open up to 160 new shops this year after adding 145 in 2023, as its market share rose to an all-time high....
...She added that Greggs would look to relocate another 50 stores this year, and “that will be a similar number as we go forward”....
...Unadjusted pre-tax profits came in at £188.3mn, thanks to a one-off insurance claim of £20.6mn....
...Greggs opened a record 220 new shops last year, with 33 closures and 42 relocations. The group now has 2,473 shops trading....
...But I have a colleague on Jancis Robinson.com, Tamlyn Currin, who specialises in detailed analysis of the interaction between her inventive dishes on the one hand and her cellar on the other....
...Arguably a more significant development is the Spanish wine revolution....
...A third-quarter trading update reported a 14.2 per cent increase in like-for-like sales in the outlets Greggs manages in the 13 weeks to September 30....
...My first wine encounter after a stint in hospital with double pneumonia was a lunch with fellow members of a group known as “The 1950 Babes”, although only three of us are female....
...Italy has many wines that deserve a place in a decent cellar because they really do improve with time in bottle. And it’s not just the reds....
...And there is a ready secondary market for wine with a good reputation, should you wish to sell some....
...Robinson was born in Atlanta in 1935, a scion of a prominent southern banking family....
...And in the UK, since August 1, we have had the additional imposition of a new and complex duty system tied to alcohol content which has added 44p a bottle to most still wines....
...UK companies reporting full-year results include real estate agent Foxtons, bakery chain Greggs, insurer Hiscox, office space provider IWG and news publisher Reach....
...Also, we go long UK pasty purveyor Greggs and short Tesla....
...A good buy for lovers of classic claret....
...There was admittedly one evening when I welcomed a mouthful or two of 10-year-old madeira, but I think that was more as a linctus than a taste treat. My tastes have changed completely....
...He’d had to leave promptly to get a train to Liverpool. All I had to do was walk home and slump in a chair....
...At the end of last year, a reader asked me to share my thoughts on how to build a cellar....
...I’ll have a glass maybe once a year. It’s a bit like Beaujolais Nouveau or Pimm’s in that respect, a signifier of the season. 2....
...NN Group: Shares in the Netherlands-based firm rose 4.1 per cent after it announced a €300mn settlement with a number of consumer groups over sales of unit-linked insurance products and said it planned a...
...He started out as a van driver, by chance for a wine company....
...Greggs pushed through a small 5p-10p price increase on some items in June. Last year, the bakery chain lifted prices on three occasions....
...As a result, Italian wine producers turned from the large old Slavonian casks that had been de rigueur and embarked on a love affair with barriques. France’s coopers owe him a great deal....
...The higher education division — which still accounts for almost a quarter of sales — registered a 5 per cent decline in revenues, though profitability has been supported by cost efficiencies....
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