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...People are very snooty about it, but it was a favourite of Michael Broadbent, the late modern pioneer of wine auctions in London....
...“Some of the successful entrepreneurial people that are now buying small vineyards innovate with techniques and grape varieties to produce some great-quality wines,” says Michael Baynes of Vineyards-Bordeaux...
...Around New Year’s Eve 1996 in Savoie, he insisted on driving 40km through a blizzard to get to chef Marc Veyrat’s restaurant near Annecy in the Alps....
...Photographs: Alamy; Jochen Schmidt; Michael Howard/Four Corners; Bob Jones; Dreamstime...
...Doubles from €200; maisons-hotels-sibuet.com Photographs: Fred Hayes/Getty Images; Michael Müller/KME Studios...
...They tend to be recruited from the Alpine department of Savoie and are also called les Savoyards. Rémy Le Fur, the French auctioneer, says: “Sadly, this problem has existed for a long time....
...Benn is also responsible for co-producing Glastonbury (with Michael Eavis), and directing the venerable Leeds and Reading festivals....
...The story begins with Jacques Badollet who moved from his birthplace in the Haute-Savoie in France in 1535 to Geneva, where watchmaking was a thriving industry....
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