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...I actually scored Louis Roederer 2002 half a point higher than the same vintage of Louis Roederer’s prestige cuvée Cristal....
...We weren’t sure, so we asked Jancis Robinson, the FT’s wine correspondent, what she thought of the Cellar’s contents....
.... £55 The Champagne Company, £55.50 The Bottle Club and others Louis Roederer, Brut Nature 2015 Champagne Their single-vineyard, dry wine with the Philippe Starck label. Complex, alluring nose....
...Cabrières wine is locally supposed to have been loved by The Sun King Louis XIV. Ten days later, I visited Santadi wine co-op in southern Sardinia and couldn’t believe the contrast....
...The rest — Napoleon setting foot in Egypt, scenes from Robinson Crusoe (Le Petit Robinson), intrepid balloonists adrift or voguish chinoiserie — met the demand for topical scenes....
...Louis Roederer’s non-vintage blend changes every year and the most recent is Collection 243 (although the 242 may also be on sale)....
...A New York judge has awarded billionaire hedge fund founder Louis Bacon more than $203mn in damages at the end of a bitter defamation case against his former Bahamas neighbour, the Canadian fashion mogul...
...The FT’s own Jancis Robinson is one. She gave very high scores — 19.5 out of 20 — to the 2008 vintage, more than for those champagnes in the next best to follow in 2012....
...This episode was produced by Zach St Louis. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...“He always wanted whatever a person was due, to get it, especially money-wise and especially for young black entertainers,” said singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson....
...Schillings represented the hedge fund manager Louis Bacon in a bitter dispute with Peter Nygard, his Bahamas neighbour....
...In 2016, the disparity in how men’s and women’s ageing is viewed was the subject of the sketch in which comedians Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette and Amy Schumer celebrate Louis-Dreyfus’...
.... £19.95 Tanners Louis Latour 2019 Côte de Beaune Villages 13% No one would be disappointed to secure this true red burgundy at this price. £20 Tesco Lonely Vineyard Montepulciano 2017 Eden Valley 13.5%...
...Cartier rose-gold Tank Louis Cartier watch, £11,400 Emporio Armani cotton perforated trench coat, £1,300, and matching trousers, £550. Sunspel cotton shirt, £285....
...I have had to content myself with attending a handful of tastings of 2021s held in London by some of the bigger producers, mainly négociants such as Louis Jadot, Faiveley, Chanson and JC Boisset....
.... £45 simpsonswine.com Louis Roederer Collection 243 NV ChampagneThe third edition of this impeccable house’s new, numbered non-vintage blend....
...It’s why everyone from Giorgio Armani (who paid her a reported $10mn in 2013 to be the face of his perfume Sì) to, latterly, Nicolas Ghesquière and Francesca Amfitheatrof at Louis Vuitton has designated...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...The first general release was Collection 242 to remind us that the youngest vintage in this multi-vintage blend is Louis Roederer’s 242nd harvest....
...earliest additions to the Loeb list, resulting from these trips, were the legendary producers Ch Rayas of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Armand Rousseau of Gevrey-Chambertin, Henri Gouges of Nuits-St-Georges and Louis...
...Main picture glassware: The Jancis Robinson Collection from Richard Brendon Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Then, the FT’s wine columnist Jancis Robinson teaches us about the world of wine....
...That was also true of Michael Haneke’s 2012 Cannes winner Amour, which featured authoritative performances from veterans Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva....
...(Brown co-directs with James Robinson, artistic director of the Opera Theater of St Louis.)...
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