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...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...It’s based on a four-hectare plot of 75-year-old vines just outside the famous Priorat wine zone unearthed by Dominik Huber, co-founder of lauded Priorat producer Terroir al Limit, in which star South African...
...Setting aside the threat of ChatGPT et al to those of us who write for a living, I feel moved to defend wine professionals in general and the need to retain the personal touch in much of what we do....
....£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 summit’s president, Sultan al-Jaber, has acknowledged the inevitability of a global transition from fossil fuels to clean energy....
...The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue. For Kasparov, it is argued that he was world champion for 15 years, and stayed No1 for a further five....
...Peynaud’s successors at the University of Bordeaux, currently Marchal et al, produce a detailed report on the growing season every year....
...Israel-Hamas war: Israel’s second raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital is stretching into its ninth day and shaping into the biggest battle of the nearly six-month war....
...In a testy exchange with former Irish president Mary Robinson, Jaber argued: “There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve...
...“If Bordeaux had a few big brands doing the job Moët & Chandon and Veuve Clicquot et al have done for their region, Bordeaux as a whole would be in a far better state financially than it is today.”...
.... £34.70 Great Grog Dom Françoise et Denis Clair En Remilly 2020 St-Aubin 13%Really very exciting wine but with overall delicacy. Excellent acidity with a bit of chewiness on the end....
...Yet the prices per bottle, estimated by Berkmann, were: Sassicaia £275 to £325, San Leonardo £50 to £65 and Guado al Tasso £75 to £98....
...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...It’s that documentary that US vice-president Al Gore came out with in 2006. And it was part of the first rush to solve the climate crisis through innovation....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...There was a time towards the end of the last century, when the wine departments of Sainsbury’s, Tesco, et al strained every sinew to have the best range and to use wine as a lure to get customers into the...
...Gain: headlong action brio and a cast of overnight Hollywood stars-to-be (McQueen, Bronson et al). Loss: length, character complexity and the loving build-up of an epic momentum....
...The Côte d’Or was intended to focus on wine production, while to its immediate south, Saône-et-Loire, named after its two most famous rivers, was to focus on farming, especially Charolais beef, and industry...
...Jancis Robinson returns next week. More columns at ft.com/jancis-robinson Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
....£10.99 (reduced from £13.99 in December) Waitrose Joséphine et Frédéric Arnaud 2019 Côtes du Rhône 14.5%100 per cent full-on Syrah. So much character! Still youthful with quite a bit of tannin....
...Then, the FT’s wine columnist Jancis Robinson teaches us about the world of wine....
...He recently reported that the Paris-based umbrella wine organisation the OIV, or Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin, is actively against regulations limiting biogenic amine levels in wine,...
...Democracy and capitalism are complementary, in that both assume human agency, rely on the rule of law, reject ascribed status, and depend on what the economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson call a “...
...One could view it as part of a “mosaic” of approaches in this space, to borrow a term from former Irish president Mary Robinson....
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