Hints and tips:
...what goes into their grand vin....
...I almost went to culinary school, and, in a way, cooking is similar to what I’m doing now: using really great ingredients, making stuff by hand....
...Jancis was impressed, and picked out the following as particularly notable (if you’re a foreign dignitary and fancy trying one of these, we recommend emailing in advance)… — 1961 Château Latour Grand Vin...
...The answer, in the words of Alice Evans, a visiting fellow at Stanford University and one of the leading researchers on the topic, is that today’s under-thirties are undergoing a great gender divergence,...
...Supermarket sherries (with The Wine Society one below) are still one of the UK’s best wine buys, despite recent duty hikes....
...In came strip lighting and clear signage; gone were more playful aspects — such as the pet food display in the shape of a giant sculpted Great Dane, its belly filled with rows of Biba pet food — as well...
...They slow-cooked beef bourguignon, coq au vin and chilli con carne....
...Jura and Savoie in the subalpine east of France are also great hunting grounds but have become too fashionable to be bargains....
...I know I keep going on about it, but it was great....
...Having characterised Virginia Woolf’s pet marmoset in Mitz (1998), a grieving Great Dane in the 2018 National Book Award–winning The Friend and a rescue cat in What Are You Going Through (2020), Nunez also...
...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....
...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...
...A witty, perceptive script brought out the best in the well-cast Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes and Lizzy Caplan....
...Vivant, in particular, was bar à vins bliss....
...The recommended accompaniment is a house vin d’orange (like a negroni, but less aggressive)....
...Other highlights of the menu include guinea fowl slow-cooked with morels and injected with vin jaune and white blood sausage....
...The wine list is absolutely killer, a bit more natural than some, with lots of great vin jaune from the Jura and hard-to-get-hold-of Burgundy....
...Stone, Vine & Sun is a hardworking independent wine merchant based in Hampshire with a particular interest in the Languedoc, the source of so many great-value wines....
...Lanoba leverages that instinct, ticking — and tickling — every neurotic New Yorker’s need for one-upmanship: it’s hard to find but worth the trek, not cheap but still great value, secretive but clubby once...
...The decision, approved in March, was deeply unpopular: in one poll, 70 per cent of Danes opposed it....
...He’s a serious wine aficionado and says it’s one of the best he’s tried. One of my favourites involves a drive quite high up in the mountains....
...All but one of Rasmus’s crew were Danish and with an average age of just 20....
...As I noted when comparing this beautifully made wine to a young vintage port, “Like a second wine in Bordeaux, this would only be put in the shade by serving the grand vin alongside.”...
...Denmark’s first government since the 1970s to combine left- and rightwing parties came to power last month pledging to cut one of its 11 public holidays — Store bededag, or Great prayer day — to help boost...
...Great divide: Washington and Brussels can beat China’s offer to the developing world by emphasising open and fair dealing, writes Alan Beattie....
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