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...Spain’s more recently fashionable fine-wine regions Ribera del Duero and Priorat also produce many a wine worth ageing, witness respectively Vega Sicilia and Álvaro Palacios’ L’Ermita, but these are not...
...According to Majestic’s similar booklet, its Alain Grignon Carignan has 9.4g/l, Domodo Negroamaro 8g/l, Domaine Marquis Ravardel 2020 Châteauneuf-du-Pape 7g/l and many others hover around 4g/l....
...Pear syrup with just enough freshness.£13.50 a half Tesco Philippe et Jacques Guignard, L’Ouest de Lamothe Guignard 2010 Sauternes (13.5%)A snip unearthed by buyer Jane Masters MW....
...The late Denis Durantou of L’Église-Clinet in Pomerol developed Les Cruzelles and La Chenade in the satellite appellation Lalande de Pomerol....
....£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....
...Estabel a 2023 vigneron de l’année....
...Very ripe, intense fruit presumably accounts for the fact that, if served this blind, I would guess a higher dosage than 3g/l....
...My friend Patricia’s birthday parties were the best....
...For example, the company is part of the so-called Mansion House Compact which also includes L&G, Aviva and Scottish Widows....
...Earlier this summer, I issued a call to readers: What would you like to ask the Jancis Robinson?...
...The wine had slightly more residual sugar than most (3.7g/l) but that was well compensated for by the persistence and potential of this very well-made wine....
...Arte The brand’s showroom on Rue de l’Abbaye will be a portal to Hawaii through new wallpapers inlaid or embroidered with rattan and raffia....
...Jacques Thienpont of Le Pin in Pomerol had an explanation in his relatively new St-Émilion property Ch L’If: the limestone under its vines adds zest to the wines....
...The rest comes from visitors; fees, events and the support of many Friends worldwide (l.saintleger@vaux-le-vicomte.fr, for details)....
...One attendee, artist Patricia Mitchell, ended up using a malachite-effect backdrop for the paper sculpture she created for Chris Beardshaw’s award-winning Chelsea garden in May....
...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....
...In the 1967 film, The Graduate, Anne Bancroft played Mrs Robinson, the older married woman having an affair with 21-year-old Benjamin, portrayed by Dustin Hoffman. Bancroft was just 35, Hoffman, 29....
....£17.75 Yapp Bros Begude, Esprit Pinot Noir 2021 Haute Vallée de l’Aude 13%Really convincing special selection from the hills of Limoux. Burgundy, eat your heart out!...
...£26.99 a half Uncorked, London Legras & Haas, Chouilly Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Brut 2012 ChampagneA label founded by Nicolas Legras of R&L Legras and his wife Brigitte Haas....
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...Others that seem to have achieved overnight fame and prices to match include Domaine des Miroirs in Jura, Edmond Vatan in Sancerre, Ulysse Collin in Champagne and L’Anglore in, of all places, Tavel in the...
...The US beauty and fragrance group hopes shares trading at 29 times forward earnings would edge up to the rating of 35 times enjoyed by L’Oréal....
...Seely who, as managing director of Axa Millésimes, is responsible for wine estates as luxuriously classic as Chx Pichon Baron and Suduiraut in Bordeaux, Quinta do Noval in the Douro valley, Domaine de l’...
...Jancis RobinsonAnd what about if a picnic wine for a light red that’s nicely chilled, could be Cinsault, C-I-N-S-A-U-L-T....
...This week, the US electric-car maker roped in South Korean company L&F to contribute battery materials....
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