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...HOLD: Sanderson Design Group (SDG) Sales volumes are under pressure, but action on pricing and cost controls have supported margins, writes Mark Robinson....
.... £17.99 MJ Wine Cellars Cosme Palacio, Glorioso Gran Reserva 2015 Rioja 14%Masses of class and interest per penny....
...Their stock seems dominated by the need to shave pennies off the selling price, not helped by successive, stealthy increases in duty....
...So penny to a euro it will never happen....
...limit the list to those wines that find their way to the UK, which doubtless excludes many worthy American examples since the US market tends to be much more appealing to US wine producers than the more penny-pinching...
...These stoppers are worth every penny and have kept my leftover sparkling wines fizzy and interesting for longer than I care to confess in print....
...“Every penny that Michael made out of the drink, David would present as fabulous food at bargain prices,” says Gough. “An outrage against every restaurant norm.”...
...Partly in an effort to shave pennies off the selling price of a bottle of wine, and partly with a nod to sustainability, British supermarkets had turned massively to UK bottling even before the fall in sterling...
...Worth every penny. 14% Novum Chardonnay 2017 Marlborough £31.95 The Vinorium, Kent Debut vintage of a personal project of the winemaker at the admirable Fromm winery in Marlborough....
...With notable exceptions — the Germans and Dutch, for example — other wine drinkers tend to be much less penny-pinching than us Brits....
...So, it’s in for a penny, in for the à la carte. I order sashimi followed by a sirloin steak, something I have been craving during months of mainly vegetarian lockdown....
...Midway through Graham Swift’s new book, Ronnie Deane, an evacuee from Bethnal Green, performs a magic show for his hosts, a childless couple named Eric and Penny Lawrence....
...I’d say it’s worth every penny of its price tag of about £47 at UK stockists Theatre of Wine, The Wine Society, Duncan Murray, Noble Rot, Quality Wines and Wine & Greene....
...Brussels negotiators think not — and fear time is running out for the penny to drop....
...Robinson and Clegg, journalists at the Wall Street Journal, specialise in access....
...Britain’s imports of Australian wine in bulk, destined for the bottlers who shave crucial pennies off supermarket prices, overtook those of bottled Australian wine as long ago as 2010....
...But the country that supplied the Wine Society’s greatest bargains is Portugal, source of many wines with a massive character-per-penny ratio....
...Rather it pursues the low-risk stratagem of relying on its incumbent position and customer inertia to milk every last penny from of its historic network, using Heath Robinson technology to supply broadband...
...And the penny drops. She tells me how she and her husband first met, in 1991....
...Twitter: @MerrynSW Letter in response to this column: Life will be uncomfortable for a broke pensioner / From Ian Robinson, Newark, Notts, UK...
...Manufacturers and supermarket chains know from bitter experience that they will be punished by penny-pinching shoppers if prices rise too far or too fast....
...Private equity firms make fortunes by watching every penny and showing no sentimentality....
...Penny James, who became chief financial officer this year, has a salary of £657,000, which is 38 per cent more than her predecessor John Reizenstein....
...Ottavio Piersanti, Terre di Sampaolo 2016 Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi 13%£14 Majestic What a lot of flavour per penny is here. A testament to Italian white-wine quality....
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