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...Gautherot says he always recognises Fidèle by its taste of “Burgundian grapes, fresh almond, and quince but, above all, its saline, limestone finish.”...
...I occasionally enjoy a bit of herring with an oyster or two, a good saline reminder of the North Sea, or simply with soured cream and dark rye bread....
...One other small coincidence is that both wines are made from a single grape variety – Melon de Bourgogne and Gamay Noir respectively – which have exactly the same parents, Pinot and Gouais Blanc....
...“For my parents,” remembered Didier Defaix of Domaine Bernard Defaix, when I visited him last December, “one year in every two was a frost year. Now it almost never frosts....
...We’ve all heard of the cuckoo in the nest, but how does the interloper come to monopolise its surrogate parent?...
...For example Australia’s CSIRO announced last month a salt-tolerant wheat that yields 25 per cent more on saline soils than its parent variety....
...Its parent company, Iberdrola, has also promised to fund a chair in CCS at the University of Edinburgh....
...I first went to Gaza in 1967 with my parents from Tel Aviv in our 1963 Austin Cambridge. I was 15. We would go on the Sabbath, when all the shops in Israel were closed....
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