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...In 2022, the family winery Joseph Phelps was swallowed up by the luxury group LVMH, which had already acquired a substantial stake in Colgin on prized Pritchard Hill from Ann Colgin and Joe Wender....
...The book also provides the story’s basic shape: a Greek tragedy, structured around the trial-by-any-other-name Oppenheimer faced during the postwar inquisitions of Joseph McCarthy....
...The commune of Vosne-Romanée is the epicentre for red wines of Burgundy – it’s home to big names like Romanée-Conti and Leroy....
...Because, until the corks are pulled from all those bottles of Meursault, St Joseph and Brunello di Montalcino slumbering in the faraway gloom, there’s absolutely no way of knowing if what’s inside them is...
...With that in mind, she might have been somewhat bemused by the roll call of grand producers represented around her long table: Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (run until very recently by her great friend Aubert...
...It was a bluebird day in 2016 when Anna Maria Enselmi first laid eyes on the Palazzo dei Conti di Lecce, a sprawling 18th-century jewel with 13th-century foundations, set just behind the Duomo in Puglia’...
...She used to feed Aubert de Villaine, co-owner of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, when he was a young bachelor....
...And it was visited by luminaries from Emperor Joseph II to Fauré, Joseph Addison and a very young Mozart....
...Pin, Vieux Château Certan • Burgundy — Jean-Claude Bachelet, Ghislaine Barthod, Jean-Marc Boillot, Louis Boillot, Alain Coche, Marc Colin, Philippe Colin, Follin-Arbelet, Grivot, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti...
...Nathanael West and Joseph Heller are hooting from heaven for this one. If you haven’t already read Paul Beatty’s The Sellout (Oneworld/FSG), your life is the more meagre for the omission....
...Most producers of Hermitage would agree that, after a long period of stasis, the most exciting appellation in their part of the northern Rhône is St-Joseph....
...For some time wine lovers have tended to shrug helplessly at the over-extended boundaries of St-Joseph and expect to find a liquid that’s a bit too extended itself behind a St-Joseph label....
...In 1818, it was taken over by the Ouvrard family, who also bought the hallowed Romanée-Conti vineyard, the wine from which was aged at Clos Vougeot....
...His 87-year-old cheesemaker brother, Joseph, barred from using the Gallo name to sell his products, died the month before....
...Another master of wine, Nick Clarke, who represents Joseph Drouhin in the UK, said: “We’re all trying to buy more wine....
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