John L Robinson

April 8, 2024

Why don’t wine drinkers want what’s fashionable?

...According to Majestic’s similar booklet, its Alain Grignon Carignan has 9.4g/l, Domodo Negroamaro 8g/l, Domaine Marquis Ravardel 2020 Châteauneuf-du-Pape 7g/l and many others hover around 4g/l....

November 11, 2023

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Commodities Global Summit 2025

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FT MagazineJancis Robinson

The best strong and sweet wines for Christmas

...Pear syrup with just enough freshness.£13.50 a half Tesco Philippe et Jacques Guignard, L’Ouest de Lamothe Guignard 2010 Sauternes (13.5%)A snip unearthed by buyer Jane Masters MW....

December 16, 2023

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

Jancis Robinson picks the best red wines for Christmas

....£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....

December 9, 2023

Letter

Letter: Plaudits for piece tackling the civilisation myth

...Dr John Warren Ipswich, Suffolk, UK Letter in response to this letter: Correcting your maths / From Paul L Colby, Alexandria, VA, US...

February 23, 2024

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

How to build a cellar: a guide to affordable bordeaux

...The late Denis Durantou of L’Église-Clinet in Pomerol developed Les Cruzelles and La Chenade in the satellite appellation Lalande de Pomerol....

January 13, 2024

FT Live

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Unlocking opportunities for a greener and fairer world

ReviewTelevision

Manhunt — Tobias Menzies leads the search for Lincoln’s killer in Apple TV+ series

...There was never any doubt about who dunnit — John Wilkes Booth made sure of that....

March 11, 2024

Photography

John Waters on Peter Hujar’s ‘original, sexy’ photography

...Fran Lebowitz and Lisa Robinson introduced me to him. I think we shot it in his loft in the East Village. He was a very sexual person; I would see him out in the crazy sex clubs in New York....

April 13, 2024

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

What makes a wine co-op work?

...Estabel a 2023 vigneron de l’année....

September 30, 2023

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

The best champagnes and sparkling wines for Christmas

...Very ripe, intense fruit presumably accounts for the fact that, if served this blind, I would guess a higher dosage than 3g/l....

December 16, 2023

Investments

Directors’ Deals: Rio Tinto insiders cash in

...Nonetheless, Pearson’s fortunes have certainly improved since Andy Bird replaced John Fallon as chief executive in 2020, as evidenced by an 80 per cent increase in the share price....

January 5, 2024

ReviewBarkley L Hendricks

Barkley L Hendricks, Frick Collection review — a superstar of portraiture finally gets his due

...Before I experienced Barkley L Hendricks’ revelatory retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008, I had never seen more than a couple of his works at a time....

October 24, 2023

European prime property

Homebuyers find a quieter Côte d’Azur in its hill towns

...Since 2010, Levett has also owned local restaurant L’Amandier de Mougins, where the Salon Picasso commemorates the Spanish artist who spent the final years of his life in Notre-Dame-de-Vie, his villa outside...

April 25, 2024

ReviewMusic

Das Rheingold at Walt Disney Concert Hall — singers and set are the stars of Wagner’s opera

...Other notable singers included Morris Robinson as a stentorian Fasolt, Raehann Bryce-Davis and Tamara Mumford as the rich-voiced Fricka and Erda, and Barry Banks as Mime....

January 22, 2024

Climate change

Exxon leads industry fight against UN plans to limit plastic

...That’s really problematic for the rest of us,” said John Duncan, co-lead for the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty, a group of more than 200 companies including Walmart, PepsiCo, and L’Oréal...

April 22, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

Letter

Letter: England’s private utilities struggle to pass l’eau bar

...Steve H Hanke Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, US...

July 6, 2023

HTSI

Olivia Laing’s garden of love

...There was the highly fragrant Rosa rugosa “Roseraie de L’Haÿ” and wine-coloured species peonies, their flowers like tea bowls....

April 23, 2024

ReviewAlbums

Vijay Iyer: Compassion — from the left-field of contemporary jazz

...And the softer shades of “Where I am”, “Ghostrumental” and “It Goes” are from a 2022 group project inspired by the poet Eve L Ewing....

February 14, 2024

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

Welcome to Norway, the world’s most unlikely wine hotspot

...Its maker John Reidar explained that he often has to cover the vines in spring with a tight mesh to hasten the flowering. The scale is small....

October 14, 2023

Special ReportThe Business of Formula One

F1 team valuations continue to rise

...The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), which governs motorsport, has agreed to let Michael Andretti add a team to the grid....

November 24, 2023

Remortgaging

Mortgage lending to older UK borrowers slumps

...Due to high interest rates, some older borrowers are “cut out of the market completely” as they are unable to qualify for better-value loan to value offerings, according to Ray Boulger, manager at broker John...

February 19, 2024

Jancis Robinson’s Wine Guide

Jancis Robinson knows you find wine confusing. This guide is going to help

...Earlier this summer, I issued a call to readers: What would you like to ask the Jancis Robinson?...

August 24, 2023

Investments

Investors’ Chronicle: Next 15, Phoenix Group, Card Factory

...For example, the company is part of the so-called Mansion House Compact which also includes L&G, Aviva and Scottish Widows....

September 29, 2023

ReviewAlbums

Les Arts Florissants sparkle in Handel: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato — review

...Neither an opera nor an oratorio, L’Allegro is an adaptation of two poems by John Milton, with a short third part added by Handel’s librettist, Charles Jennens....

July 7, 2023

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

My return to South Africa

...The wine had slightly more residual sugar than most (3.7g/l) but that was well compensated for by the persistence and potential of this very well-made wine....

June 24, 2023

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