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.... £21.95 Lea & Sandeman Dom Elodie Balme 2020 Rasteau 15%Very fresh and rich with lovely energy and a hint of pepper and tannin. £21.95 Lea & Sandeman Domaine Sylvain Pataille 2018 Marsannay Rouge 13%The...
...In the morning I toured the González Byass compound in a buggy driven by guide Sylvain Vieille-Grosjean, buzzing between Belle Époque pavilions, gardens where fountains trickled and alleys made into cool...
...Ch d’Emeringes, Vieilles Vignes 2018 Beaujolais-Villages £8.50 The Wine Society Lovely fresh nose and floral, grainy-textured fruit on the palate. Proper, handcrafted wine for a relative song....
...George Enescu’s “Prelude 1 for Orchestral Suite” evoked optimism and doubt with a lovely tune, rippling piano arpeggios and ebb-and-flow improv....
...The strange thing is, it’s rather lovely....
...A lovely story told with ease and grace. Simon Kuper …………………………………………………………….....
...Art & Place: Site-Specific Art of the Americas, Various authors, Phaidon, RRP£49.95/$79.95 Another Phaidon coffee table-straining blockbuster, this curious, lovely book spans everything from pre-Columbian...
...North Rhône classic before prices went up. 13% £42.50 Adnams … Dom Sylvain Cathiard 2006 Vosne-Romanée A sought-after name. Super fleshy and flattering. Very bright cherry fruit....
...A lovely film. Six years ago a quirky and haunting Icelandic film, Nói the Albino, made a stir on the art-house circuit....
...£43.08 OW Loeb Dom Sylvain Cathiard 2007 Vosne-Romanée Very flattering at the moment. Lovely sweetness plus Vosne’s energy....
...It’s not given away though. 14% £44.95 Jeroboams Dom Sylvain Cathiard, Clos de l’Orme 2004 Chambolle-Musigny 17.5 Drink 2009-15 50+ year-old vines. Real delicacy and lovely now. Great precision....
...The most frequently cited similar vintage is 2000 although, as Sylvain Cathiard of Vosne-Romanée (whose 2007s are particularly sumptuous) maintains, the fruit is a little fresher in general than in 2000....
...it’s not an obviously great vintage for top quality Chablis, for example, that needs a decade or more in bottle to show its mettle – although there is no shortage of charming basic Chablis that will be lovely...
...Near Geneva’s central business district, it has lovely walks and great views....
...Christine Schäfer sings Violetta with her lovely, pitch-perfect soprano, a plucky performance that is impressive rather than moving....
...Stefano Secco (Adorno) can do the crowd- pleasing tenor squillo but throws in too much vulgarity and Ana Maria Martinez’s lovely voice never quite seems on top of Maria’s music....
...Cairanne, Côtes-du-Rhône 2003 Dom de l’Ameillaud Jeroboams £7.60 Sweet, round, lovely balance. Ready....
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