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.... £6.50 a half Tesco Lustau, Torre del Oro Palo Cortado NV Sherry (19%), Dry Oloroso NV Sherry (20%) and Don Gaspar Amontillado NV Sherry (18.5%)Ridiculous value for these dry, long oak-aged treasures....
...At the Barbaresco restaurant Antica Torre, sunlight streaming in, I could feel Browett’s mood becoming more accommodating, helped by the scent of truffles wafting over from nearby tables and the promise...
...Torres told of how, when he started to sow cover crops in his vineyards in 2020, his neighbours were convinced that these “weeds” were a sign that Familia Torres was going down the tubes....
...Wine producers such as the eco-conscious Familia Torres of Catalonia and the Plaimont group of co-operatives in Gascony have been active in this respect, but all over Italy especially there are individuals...
...The farsighted Torres winemaking family in Catalonia is pressing for a standard wine bottle that could be recycled and reused anywhere in the world — or at least anywhere in Europe to begin with....
...In the same series, Don Gaspar Dry Amontillado and Torre del Oro Palo Cortado are also great value at the same price.£11.99 for 75cl Waitrose Harveys Signature 12-Year-Old Cream 19% Very different from...
...But with the exception of Mount Yengo Wines in the Hunter Valley, Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been under-represented in the wine industry....
...Torres of Catalonia is usually ahead of the game and its Natureo range of no-alcohol wines (£5.99 Waitrose) is better than most....
...This presumably provided the inspiration for the Catalan company currently rebranding itself as Familia Torres when it put classified ads in local papers asking people to look out for unidentified vine varieties...
...Graciano and Palomino); about £45, Old Chapel Cellars, The Sampler Dominio de Atauta, Llanos del Almendro 2012 Ribera del Duero (Tempranillo) Demencia de Autor 2012 Bierzo (Mencía), £31.99, The Winery Torres...
...Miguel Torres of Catalonia established a base in Chile back in 1979, well to the south of what was then the focus of the Chilean wine industry....
...The Torres family are keen to encourage as many of their neighbours to plant the varieties they have recently discovered — “especially Forcada”, says Miguel Torres Maczassek....
...Ditto for young Miguel Torres when he had some new wines to show off....
...half-bottle Morrisons) • Clos des Fous, Locura 1 Chardonnay 2012 Cachapoal, Chile (£13.50 Eclectic Tastes) • Braunewell, Essenheimer Kalkstein Riesling 2013 Rheinhessen (£15.95 Lea & Sandeman) Reds • Miguel Torres...
...Also likely to drive interest is the opening of Explora Valle Sagrado, a sister property to Explora Patagonia, the hotel that opened in 1993 and did much to popularise the Torres del Paine national park....
...Casa Lapostolle, Miguel Torres, Santa Emiliana, Undurraga, Valdivieso, De Martino, the Jackson Family Estates of California and now the biggest of them all, Concha y Toro, have asked to join the Vigno club...
...2012 Chablis (13%), £180 a dozen in bond, Lay & Wheeler Pink ● Circumstance, Cape Coral Mourvèdre Rosé 2014 Stellenbosch (12.5%), £8.95 ND John, £9.75 Camber Wines, £10.99 Slurp.co.uk Red ● Miguel Torres...
...I completely failed to spot Miguel Torres of Spain and his compatriot Pablo Alvarez of Vega Sicilia; Piero and Alessia Antinori of Italy; Paul and Dominic Symington of Portugal and the Primum Familiae Vini...
...Others who try harder include Torres of Spain and Ridge Vineyards in California, which have long shared every detail of their wines with us. And they are literate to boot....
...• Mas Martinet, Martinet Bru 2010, £12.50 in bond Justerini & Brooks • Álvaro Palacios, Camins del Priorat 2012, £13.95 The Wine Society • Torres, Salmos 2011, £18.99 Waitrose • Clos i Terrasses, Laurel...
...Very good balance and interest. 12% £8.99 Marks and Spencer Miguel Torres, Cordillera Chardonnay 2011 Limarí Valley Half the fruit grown in this new, cool region was fermented in new French oak barrels...
...All at the long tables in Torre di Pisa in Milan, always very late at night, not knowing how soon it would end. He died in 1983, making beauty and making history....
...In Perth, the Western Australian Award judges went across the continent to the Torres Strait to find their winner....
...One notable early example was Torres’ Catalan Viña Sol and it’s still going strong....
...His was the most stimulating presentation at a recent conference in Barcelona on wine and food organised by canny Catalan wine producer Torres....
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