Hints and tips:
...Tangy, dry, pungent and great value. £6.50 a half Tesco Lustau, Torre del Oro Palo Cortado NV Sherry (19%), Dry Oloroso NV Sherry (20%) and Don Gaspar Amontillado NV Sherry (18.5%)Ridiculous value for these...
...Marion Willingham Frizzi Krella: Paris – 9 Rue de l’Université is published by Kerber at €30 SEE Betty Parsons at Alison Jacques in London American gallerist and artist Betty Parsons (1900-82) nurtured...
...For others, it is simply a time for weighing: stepping on the bathroom scales while reflecting mournfully on the quantity of turkey dinners, mince pies and sherries consumed....
...I was out in nature, by the riverside and exploring the new distillery,” says Mary of The Macallan, which was founded in 1824 and is known for using distinctly small copper-pot stills and sherry-seasoned...
...With his early career spent in the kitchens of L’Arpège in Paris and San Domenico in Emilia-Romagna, Café Carmellini is the theatrical culmination of exquisite French and Italian cuisine — think Dover sole...
...And why is sherry still almost given away? Wine lists are full of apparent pricing anomalies, especially those that specialise in famous names....
...Sherry is the most obvious one by a mile. The supermarkets sell inexpensive, really good sherries. That is the one wine I would buy in a supermarket. 81. What wine is so overrated as to be bad value?...
...Made from oak-aged Len de l’El, a local grape variety in Gaillac. Deep gold. Very sweet but fresh. Quite enough acidity for the marked sweetness. Gorgeously round and lively without too much alcohol....
...“Henri Roché was part of this revival,” says Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, curator of graphic arts at the Musée d’Orsay....
...Another useful half-bottle.£14.95 for 37.5cl Berry Bros & Rudd Ch Pierre-Bise, L’Anclaie 2014 Coteaux du Layon Beaulieu 11%An old favourite from Anjou....
...Last time I was in the archive the owner offered me a glass of sherry – the business!”...
...I’m not sure I want a tiger trompe-l’oeil in my cupboard or a knitted cake stand in my room....
...Strain into a chilled sherry glass or a small wine glass....
...My chef is Alain Passard of Paris’s L’Arpège, who revolutionised vegetable-based cuisine in France....
...It’s a similar story with Betty Parsons, the late New York gallerist celebrated for championing new American painting by the likes of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, but whose success often overshadowed...
...been as low as 7g/l....
...His father was a village parson and would drive young Diarmaid around to look at churches. Now 67, MacCulloch reckons he has visited “6,000 or 7,000 so far — and several more than once”....
...It’s important to remember that you and your partner are not just a couple, but also two different people (I got this idea from Tony Parsons)....
...If Ant were to list today, a $150bn valuation would make it the world’s 86th-biggest company by market capitalisation, leapfrogging the likes of IBM, L’Oreal and McDonald’s and putting it just below Walt...
...R L Parsons Telford, Shrops, UK...
...Letter in response to this article: Lottery players have lost interest in paltry prizes / From R L Parsons, Telford, Shrops, UK...
...Lottery players have lost interest in paltry prizes — letter by R L Parsons in Shrops “From my own experience and talking to other players, the feeling now is that even if you “win” you’ll get very little...
...Vintage-dated sherry is a recent innovation, as is madeira labelled with the date of harvest, so they are generally too young to serve our purpose....
...From an exceptionally well-conceived, well-priced wine list I drank a glass of Equipo Navazos Fino sherry (€11), a glass of 2016 Austrian Riesling from Loimer (€7) and a glass of peach wine (€5)....
...The current owner of the Domecq bodega in Jerez’s beautiful and increasingly valuable old town is Andrew L Tan, Chinese owner of Emperador, the world’s biggest-selling brandy....
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