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...In such environs it’s much better to let sleeping Grand Vins lie, to be shared with one or two like-minded friends who understand that the price of admission to something more than a solid house vino is...
...Only Itata could deliver this. £21.95 Vin Cognito Joey Tensley, Fundamental Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 Central Coast (14.5%) A new name on the UK market offering great value....
...The 2011 vintage is one of 1,000 Swiss wines on the list here, which runs to 3,000 wines in total. The rustic yet crisply sophisticated white provides the second thrill of the day. I ask for a top-up....
...Matthew Hayes of Albion Vins Fins has been trying to sell top quality Italian wines from his base in Dijon since 2011 and reports, “in a word, it’s hard work....
...Wine may have coursed through Anthony Barton’s veins, but for much of the mid-20th century he was a lowly salesman, first with Barton & Guestier and subsequently for his own company Vins Fins Anthony Barton...
...In 2011, it was acquired by a little-known real estate investor and had, since then, flown so far under the radar that it was practically invisible....
...The merest hint of the sort of lactones you encounter in whisky. £74.95 The Whisky Exchange Taittinger, Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 2011 ChampagneThe year 2011 doesn’t have the greatest reputation...
...Puff Daddy), Christian Bale, Monica Bellucci and Heidi Klum, whose teenage daughters all made their catwalk debuts in Dolce couture; Helen Mirren, Kate Bosworth, Kris Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Ciara, Vin...
...Hampshire was the first to fall, in 2011. Three years later, Somerset succumbed. Then Dorset, Devon, Kent, Cornwall and, as of this week, West Sussex....
...Her own wine label, which she launched in 2011 with a barrel from her boss and a loan of €5,000, was only ever meant to be a side hustle – but it’s one that’s now seeing the 49-year-old Australian hailed...
...There are two versions of the Vin Méthode Nature logo, one for no added sulphites (sulphites are produced naturally but to a very low level during fermentation) and one for wines whose level of sulphites...
...Details are still sketchy, but with those two on board, one thing’s sure: they’re going to have one hell of a rider....
...Some wines were falling apart, while one or two of the Grands Crus were simply sublime....
...This one is a little darker, plus fuller and richer than the average tangy Fino....
...fully mature and one, like this one, much younger....
...Giovanna Morganti of the tiny Le Boncie estate, outside the village of Castelnuovo Berardenga, makes one of the finest and subtlest Chianti Classicos....
...One wine estate that went more than the extra mile to provide better conditions for its workers, Solms-Delta, part financed by a member of the Astor family, has just been threatened with liquidation and...
...Rhône £14.50 Montrachet Food and caution definitely needed with this youthful, potent wine, but there is freshness too, thanks to the elevation. 15% Ch de Pizay 2016 Morgon, Beaujolais £14.50 Le Bon Vin...
...My eye was caught recently by a friend’s answers to one of those newspaper questionnaires....
...One buyer is Chinese energy executive Alex Cus, who first visited HCMC in 2011 on business and was struck by the city’s sense of potential....
...But champagne sales in France have nonetheless been in gentle decline since 2011....
...Old Carignan bush vines have potential; it’s just a shame that the original Grenache clones were poor quality, so the Grenache story is perforce a very new one....
...Quinta do Noval, Single Vineyard LBV 2011 Port 19.5% £22.50 Oddbins, Ocado and various independents Unfiltered, bottle-aged port from a stellar vintage....
...“We will manufacture suffering one way or another — there’s no way out of it.”...
...Last year, both copper and wine rallied thanks to fundamentals, albeit different ones....
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