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Jancis Robinson’s series about how to build an affordable cellar
...Those investments include a heavily impaired £30mn stake in a challenger bank, more than £40mn in property funds managed by M7 and a further £47mn in often-opaque investment vehicles at Robinson’s own firm...
...Robinson knows her biblical scholarship, and she is no literalist, remarking that to propose anything other than human authorship is “a notable instance of our having a lower opinion of ourselves than the...
...Even a tasting of a winery’s basic range costs $81 on average and, if visitors want a tour too, they could end up paying far more....
...His Amarones are a world away from commercial examples....
...It was surprisingly easy to confuse a fine Grüner with a fine Chardonnay....
...But a more easily graspable point is that cork forests act as a significant carbon sink....
...Arguably a more significant development is the Spanish wine revolution....
...But I have a colleague on Jancis Robinson.com, Tamlyn Currin, who specialises in detailed analysis of the interaction between her inventive dishes on the one hand and her cellar on the other....
...Robinson was born in Atlanta in 1935, a scion of a prominent southern banking family....
...Italy has many wines that deserve a place in a decent cellar because they really do improve with time in bottle. And it’s not just the reds....
...And there is a ready secondary market for wine with a good reputation, should you wish to sell some....
...My first wine encounter after a stint in hospital with double pneumonia was a lunch with fellow members of a group known as “The 1950 Babes”, although only three of us are female....
...HOLD: Saga (SAGA) The travel division of the insurer has returned to profit for the first time since the pandemic, writes Mark Robinson....
...Reckitt Benckiser’s chief financial officer Jeff Carr will step down early next year and will be succeeded at the consumer goods company by Shannon Eisenhardt....
...And in the UK, since August 1, we have had the additional imposition of a new and complex duty system tied to alcohol content which has added 44p a bottle to most still wines....
...A good buy for lovers of classic claret....
...There was admittedly one evening when I welcomed a mouthful or two of 10-year-old madeira, but I think that was more as a linctus than a taste treat. My tastes have changed completely....
...(Mind Prison) — Annoying hospital beeps are causing hundreds of deaths a year (New Atlas)...
...Instead, Michael Shannon offers a controlled, pensive interpretation that is rich in hangdog melancholia....
...He’d had to leave promptly to get a train to Liverpool. All I had to do was walk home and slump in a chair....
...I’ll have a glass maybe once a year. It’s a bit like Beaujolais Nouveau or Pimm’s in that respect, a signifier of the season. 2....
...At the end of last year, a reader asked me to share my thoughts on how to build a cellar....
...The higher education division — which still accounts for almost a quarter of sales — registered a 5 per cent decline in revenues, though profitability has been supported by cost efficiencies....
...He started out as a van driver, by chance for a wine company....
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