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...The revival of old-world glamourNew York was home to the world’s first branded residence: the five-star Sherry Netherland hotel kick-started the concept by offering butlers and cocktails to its long-term...
...I recited a line from the book to the saucepan: “The mushroom soup simmered, waiting for its dash of cream and splash of sherry.” If only....
...Behind it is a bar with several old barrels, lines of glasses and wine bottles and a blackboard showcasing ports, Madeiras and sherries....
...The sherry glasses should be polished and ready to quench the thirst of the turtle-soup eaters....
...If you stay in one of the hotel’s suites, this level of attention extends to pillowcases embroidered with your initials in gold, and a butler who will run you a bath filled with rose petals....
...According to Roseanne De Vere Hunt, an agent at Sherry Fitzgerald Country Homes, interest from overseas buyers is up....
...Staff are dressed as butlers and housekeepers, which puts at ease those who were raised by servants but may have a very different effect on everyone else....
...“I must have a tumbler of sherry in my room before breakfast,” Churchill had told the butler on his arrival. “A couple of glasses of scotch and soda before lunch and French champagne....
...About £10 per 37.5cl, Roberson Wine, Woodwinters, Butler’s Wine Cellar, Hanging Ditch • Equipo Navazos, La Bota de No 69 Amontillado. £80 per 150cl, The Solent Cellar • Williams & Humbert, Dos Cortados...
...They might not be especially well-paid, but life among the sherry and corduroy jackets was congenial, and worthy of respect. Fewer seem to feel like that any more....
...Instead of a minibar, there are decanters of sherry and whisky....
...The Major brought the boy, Biawa, back to Rothes to be his butler....
...I’ve had fun developing the wine list for The Pearson Room [a brasserie in Canada Square], and am getting into sherries....
...£9.99 Majestic Emilio Lustau, Puerto Fino NV Sherry Very smoky distinctive nose....
...Recommended dynastic wines The Butlers Wine Cellar, Brighton www.butlers-winecellar.co.uk CARM Classico 2004 Douro 14% £8.99 Lay & Wheeler, Colchester www.laywheeler.co.uk Fromm, Clayvin Vineyard Pinot...
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