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...I certainly wouldn’t measure quality in terms of the number of oak casks, but at L’Estabel there were 20 of varying ages....
...Designed by Paola Petrobelli, this portable lamp is suitable for outdoor and indoor use. abask.com Eleonore by Laura Ashley, £100 The aged brass finish pairs well with a warm red shade. amoslighting.co.uk...
...Buy a case and save some for a while.£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....
...We are two acorns — but it also references the oak trees on the estate and the wooden whisky casks.”...
...Up above, a red steel bridge leads to a kind of 1970s urban orangery and a diminutive roof terrace....
...skilodgeengelberg.com Saint-Gervais and Les Arcs, FranceThe affable Lucas Falcoz, born and raised in Les Arc, doesn’t strike one as a “disrupter” as he chats with guests in his family’s restaurant, Les Chalets de l’...
...one of the farm’s 350-year-old, storm-felled oaks....
...From ¥53,000pp (about £310), including dinner and breakfast, hiiragiya.co.jp Mark C O’Flaherty The Point, Adirondack Mountains, New York Originally a sprawling lakeside camp for the Rockefellers, The Point...
...Taking place on May 14-21, it costs £4,800 per person full-board; see gtgardentours.co.uk Trekking in Nepal In the first days of May when the rhododendrons are dropping their blood-red petals, a long walk...
...Entering the gallery space by a side door, you find yourself in a store room, crammed with furniture, fittings and timber and bathed in red light....
...Thanks to these recyclable vitamin C sachets, skincare packaging takes up less space....
...He was joined by his C&C colleague George Kyle....
...£38.75 Hennings Wine Merchants, roebuckestates.co.uk R & L Legras Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Chouilly Brut NV ChampagneA well-balanced, rewarding, classic fine Chardonnay aperitif....
...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....
...None more so than the basic white, red and sparkling house cuvées they’ll stake their reputation on....
...“I try hard not to use new materials and always search and buy reclaimed timber — my favourite is oak for outside construction,” he says....
...Real punch.£35.60 for a 2.25l bag in box (equivalent to £11.87 a bottle) BIB Wine Co CVNE, Maruxa Mencía 2019 Valdeorras 14%A light Galician red with no obvious oak influence....
...L’état, c’est moi President Emmanuel Macron has suggested he will fully nationalise state-controlled electricity group EDF in a further effort to reform France’s energy sector and calm the turmoil in European...
...Donations can be made until 27 July; spacehive.com A star-dusted fashion sale to support the L’Wren Scott Scholarship Known for her glamorous red-carpet creations, L’Wren Scott dressed some of the most...
...Like Rioja’s reds, many of the successful wines are aged in oak barrels and some seem (unusually) proud of it. Good white rioja appears to have the guts to stand up to oak ageing....
...Editor-in-chief Martina Mondadori co-founded Cabana as a biannual interiors magazine in 2014....
...Really rather luscious. £13.50 Stone, Vine & Sun Piekenierskloof Wine Co Cinsault 2018 Piekenierskloof, South Africa 14%From 44-year-old vines, half-aged in old oak....
...Grenache long aged in oak in the far south-west of France, where this is the traditional wine style....
...Rich but subtle.£55 Oxford Wine Co Next week: red wines Tasting notes on Purple Pages of JancisRobinson.com....
...Molteni&C, molteni.it....
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