Hints and tips:
...Wine writer John Livingstone-Learmonth of drinkrhone.com has decades of experience of Rhône wines and their makers....
...2015 Crozes-Hermitage £25.95 Lea & Sandeman A ripe but muscular northern Rhône Syrah that should satisfy many over the next few years. 13% Frog’s Leap Zinfandel 2017 Napa Valley £26 Berry Bros & Rudd John...
...Steve Pannell, one of the most accomplished practitioners of the new art of injecting life into Shiraz, describes the ideal ripeness thus: “If you pick when you think it’s ripe, you’ve missed it.”...
...Ray Boulger of John Charcol, the mortgage broker, believes banks’ lending costs will continue to rise until the eurozone debt crisis is resolved....
...John Connolly, chief executive of Deloitte UK, is off on holiday later this week after presenting the accountancy firm’s results on Tuesday but he is heading straight into the lion’s den....
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