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...The wine cellars on the estate consist of a network of tunnels and caverns (some 300 years old), filled with steel tanks and oak barrels, and the occasional huddle of Tuscan vintners appreciatively sniffing...
...In a profile, James Politi and Colby Smith chart how the 74-year-old’s legacy at the Fed strengthens her reputation as a uniquely qualified candidate for the task at hand....
...Chardonnay 2017 Mendocino Ridge $36 Flatiron Wines & Spirits, San Francisco DeSante, Old Vines White 2014 Napa Valley£39.99 AG Wines Paul Lato, Matinee Sauvignon Blanc 2016 Santa Barbara County£44.40 james...
...Stephen Browett, chairman of London-based Farr Vintners, has seen something similar....
...“When you are working with grower champagne producers you are dealing directly with the person who’s responsible for the grapes, the land and the resulting wine,” says Flor’s chef founder James Lowe....
...“[Chinese] money supply and fine wine are pretty closely correlated,” says James Miles, co-founder and managing director of the London International Vintners Exchange, known as the fine wine exchange Liv-ex...
...Domaine Begude’s two red Pinots have become more interesting and refined as their vines grow older and owner James Kinglake gets to grips with the delicate interplay between Pinot and oak....
...And now Sideways has become a play, adapted by Pickett and recently transferred from the US to St James Theatre, London....
...Australian wine writer James Halliday was more appreciative....
...Mr Gibbs and James Miles — both former bankers — started Liv-ex in London in 2000....
...The remaining 46 per cent would be split between the club’s three other shareholders — Churchill Insurance founder Martin Long, Marathon Asset Management’s Jeremy Hosking and Farr Vintners’ Stephen Browett...
...The Brit Awards follow the week after in London with an “official wine partner”, a mid-market plonk called Frontera owned by Chilean vintner Concha y Toro....
...To ease this burden, UK vintner Naked Wine is offering a text message ordering service for drink-parched diallers....
...: New Silk Route (NSR) is likely to acquire 74% stake in Nandos Indage Restaurants, a group company of the pioneering wine maker Shamrao Chougule family, which controls the financially troubled Indage Vintners...
...The sales of Sula, owned by Nashik Vintners, rose 40 per cent last year....
...Cambridge, but the 26-year-old Oxford captain James Flewellen was the single most impressive taster of the lot – as he had been the year before....
...From £27.25 Bibendum, Harrods, Highbury Vintners, Whole Foods Louis Latour, Les Chaillots Premier Cru 2006 Aloxe-Corton Very pale ruby. Light and sweet and fun. Nice balance ad some structure....
...This year, however, Farr Vintners, Britain’s biggest traders in fine wine, has delivered the ultimate snub....
...Tom Hudson, a director at Farr Vintners, the biggest Bordeaux specialist in the UK, says: “The trade within the UK has slowed down dramatically . . . we’re relying heavily on exports now.”...
...Compare and contrast with how the BBC made their most recent TV series on drink, for which the wine writer Oz Clarke and his co-presenter James May of Top Gear were expected to tour Britain in a leaky, rusty...
...In France, one of the few voices to speak out against what he calls the “hygienists” and their calamitous effect on the wine business is journalist Jacques Dupont of Le Point, but the vintners themselves...
...Great value.13.7% From £7.25 Noel Young, James Nicholson, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Vine King Gracia de Chile, Reserva Superior Pinot Noir 2008 Bío Bío 16.5 Drink 2010-13 Frenchman Louis Ballet made this...
...Last month, fine wine traders Farr Vintners put on a truly inspiring comparative tasting of top bordeaux 2005s in Vintners’ Hall, in the beleaguered City of London....
...From the coast I would choose a starter of James Baxter’s Morecambe Bay potted shrimps, and somewhere towards the end of the meal I would like a plate of Mrs Kirkham’s Lancashire cheese with an Eccles cake...
...But the London International Vintners Exchange says the self-governing Chinese territory would have to abolish a 40 per cent wine duty to make its plan happen....
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