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...After heady gains since the start of the pandemic, the falls mark the first major downturn for the fine wine market since a three-year sell-off that began in 2011....
...The coronation of King Charles III will be a cause for celebration for many (if one survey is to be believed, 75 per cent of Brits are going to mark it by going down the pub)....
...He did not specify a vintage but even the youngest one costs an average of more than £4,000 a bottle retail before Maldives mark-ups....
...The teams responsible for Krug and Dom Pérignon tend to limit the number of champagnes they taste in a single session to 10 and 15 respectively, but my English tasting was organised by an obsessive....
...The latter even has some perfectly drinkable delights available at just below the £20 a bottle mark....
...When the Ocado deal with Waitrose comes to an end, should they order direct from Waitrose.com, or stick with the app and its new star turn, Marks and Spencer?...
...Even if you’re not a grower aficionado, you may have heard of Selosse – a domaine that often figures alongside Krug, Cristal and Salon on the world’s elite wine lists....
...Boohoo’s 44 per cent revenue growth in the last four months of 2018 was therefore more cause for Krug than for Kleenex....
...And, partly thanks to the initiative of Mark and Sarah Driver of the vast Rathfinny estate, Sussex is also now a Protected Designation of Origin for both still and sparkling wines....
...Viewed with a sober eye, under unforgiving overhead lighting, the midnight magic falls as flat as last night’s half-empty bottle of Krug....
...In recent decades, the three French groups plus others such as luxury brand LVMH (owners of six houses including Krug and Ruinart), have consolidated France’s champagne production....
...It got my lowest mark but that was still a respectable 17.5 out of 20 — even though I thought I was tasting a Krug champagne....
...The next, he would find himself sitting on a little table with four children and a nanny “having a less interesting conversation”, spying the parents drinking Krug next door....
...Mark Maclaine has been dubbed a super tutor because his services are so sought after and has been paid as much as 1,000 pounds an hour....
...The same bottle retails at around £474 but the club’s mark-ups really are very much lower than restaurants’....
...Mr Belloni says that hiring Mr Rogers marks a key point in the group’s embrace of digital....
...Among the stellar line-up of Grandes Marques Champagnes is a parcel of Krug 1990 and of Dom Pérignon Rosé 2000....
...The glass of the mirror has tiny marks, betraying it as antique. “New mirrors are so cold – you look awful,” Mahdavi tells me. In fact, apart from the chairs, every item of furniture is bespoke....
...The 1996 Krug leapt 10 per cent in June alone, and Cristal 2002 and 2004 also showed impressive growth....
...Sounds great, but before they pop the cork on the vintage Krug they bagged at the sales, investors should wait until retailers announce how much of that cash hit the bottom line....
...To mark the 10th anniversary of LVMH House, its London-based corporate university, it is launching a year-long series of events in 10 countries involving business and art schools, writers, architects and...
...a long way down the table from them, but near enough to feel part of a great occasion, to gawp at the yet-to-be-anointed Camerons and the outgoing Labour cabinet, and able to take full advantage of the Krug...
...Forty-eight doesn’t seem very old to me, but many of my fellow 1962 babies prefer not to mark the occasion, fearing they are past it....
...It may come as a surprise to some then that, to borrow from the response of Mark Twain on reading his own obituary, reports of the death of first class have been ”greatly exaggerated”....
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