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...Gaynor Hickmore, a retired nurse, has also returned full-time from Brittany to the UK — to Lymm in Cheshire — after her husband Mark died aged 60 from Covid-19....
...With encouragement from David Landes, his doctoral thesis adviser at Harvard University who wrote a book on the history of measuring time, Botstein bought his first piece in 1970....
...His reshuffle of non-executives in March gave a seat in the boardroom to Jerome Lande, head of special situations at US asset manager Scopia Capital Management, Indivior’s biggest shareholder....
...Indivior named Jerome Lande, Scopia’s head of special situation investment among four new non-executive directors, as well as pledging to make a further board appointment based on Scopia’s recommendation...
...That would not only reopen the Chinese market to US farmers, but could mark improved terms compared with previous arrangements....
...Reviewers so far have given some good marks to the 2017 vintage. And merchants, while hoping for lower prices from top makers, believe there are some very good wines....
...At Vieux Château Certan, Alexandre Thienpont’s son Guillaume has harnessed infrared technology to mark, with coloured ribbons, not just individual plots but individual vines, so that, to produce their stunning...
...For consumers and investors, en primeur has proved a popular way to buy the best wines at a discount to final retail prices, especially when reviewers gave high marks for any given vintage....
...The property’s architect, Alejandro Landes, sought to “blur” the line between inside and outside; the main living space has floor-to-ceiling windows, each bedroom has a balcony and there is a rooftop deck...
...In fact, the best reviews since 2010 gave the top châteaux the confidence to mark up prices by about 50 per cent. This dismayed wine investors, who considered the rise too aggressive....
...This highly publicised step was taken not because Artadi found the Consejo Regulador, the wine’s governing body, too restrictive (the usual criticism of a European wine appellation), but as a mark of protest...
...In the first six months of the year, US sales of its babycare products slumped to $197m, the first time they have fallen below the $200m mark since 2007....
...Others mark the 2005 vintage as a must for every cellar. Parker rescored the 2005 at the end of June and many expect prices could rise dramatically for some châteaux....
...Mark Turner, OC Sport chief executive, told the FT that he hoped the new set of at least eight, possibly 40ft replacement catamarans should be on the water by the end of next year....
...Consumers have also turned away from French staples such as Bordeaux, where quality did not reflect price in 2011, 2012 and 2013, according to Mark Pardoe, wine-buying director at Berry Bros & Rudd, a wine...
...Once a relatively obscure producer under the eye of the Cazes family, which has managed it since 1934, the 100-hectare Pauillac estate has become a wine whose appreciation is the mark of a Bordeaux insider...
...As Marks and Spencer’s wine buyer Belinda Kleinig admits, they have to look at far more lots when buying or blending suitable whites than of reds....
...But José Vouillamoz’s Pinot family tree is littered with tantalising question marks representing as-yet-unidentified parents, and it may well be that the mystery of their identities will be solved only by...
...We pass through another vacant gallery, where Favaretto spent a week riding her motorbike around indoors, bruising the walls with skid marks....
...His arrest clearly raises question marks over how much of his wine was inauthentic, and who owns those bottles now, believing them to be the real stuff....
...The South African measure, if confirmed, would mark an important victory for the growing international campaign against settlement products....
...Perhaps spurred on by exploring the three great song cycles with tenor Mark Padmore on disc, he has devised a series of solo recitals based on the late piano music....
...Today, that proportion is only 30 per cent, according to Mark Dixon, the chief executive....
...There are many attractive wines made in Virginia, but what marks de Vink’s wines out is their density, without heaviness or marked alcohol....
...Set in 10 hectares, the surrounding vineyards have been sold, although the owner still has the right to the mark “appellation AOC Buzet” if vines are replanted....
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