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Jancis Robinson’s series about how to build an affordable cellar
...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....
...Arguably a more significant development is the Spanish wine revolution....
...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....
...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....
...And there is a ready secondary market for wine with a good reputation, should you wish to sell some....
...Robinson was born in Atlanta in 1935, a scion of a prominent southern banking family....
...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....
...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....
...He started out as a van driver, by chance for a wine company....
...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....
...As a result, Italian wine producers turned from the large old Slavonian casks that had been de rigueur and embarked on a love affair with barriques. France’s coopers owe him a great deal....
...BUY: Hill & Smith (HILS) Operating margins are on the rise at the supplier of products for the construction and infrastructure industries, writes Mark Robinson....
...A success!...
...A house on the move....
...Robinson’s intervention came after Ireland’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, said at the weekend that he was “a little bit more optimistic” about the prospect of a deal before Christmas or in the new year....
...Please don’t tell me it would take only a few hours to construct a machine that could do what I do....
...“The market has started [the year] as strongly as everyone predicted,” said Shelly Beard, the consultancy’s head of pensions transactions....
...Robinson no longer thinks space travel should be a priority for humanity....
...This vintage has a bit more substance than previous ones. A streak of lime and a certain stony quality....
...I recently attended a tasting of 32 red bordeaux from vintages 2011 to 2019 from the stocks of Justerini & Brooks, a traditional wine merchant not known for favouring flashy wines....
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