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...The small wine region east of Burgundy is best known for floral Chardonnays and vin jaune, a sherry-like wine (though not fortified) made from the local Savagnin grape, which a 2019 study showed has been...
...Kabinett is the German wine insider’s current favourite Riesling....
...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?...
...It is around the same strength as port or sherry....
...The German region of Pfalz is also cooking up a reputation for its smoky Sauvignons, with Oliver Zeter’s examples not too tricky to find in the UK for less than £20, about the same price as the Styrians....
...“Sherry and gins. I work on my snail story,” reads her entry, in its entirety, for June 15 1951....
...Last time I was in the archive the owner offered me a glass of sherry – the business!”...
...According to Roseanne De Vere Hunt, an agent at Sherry Fitzgerald Country Homes, interest from overseas buyers is up....
...In Europe, HNA has been slowly releasing shares in Deutsche Bank, the German lender in which it is the largest investor....
...Nc’nean has more than 1,500 casks — a mix of red wine, sherry and bourbon barrels — ageing in its warehouses....
...Since then we’ve devoted tastings to Brunello, Chianti Classico, sherry, Languedoc wines, great dry German Rieslings, Riesling Kabinetts and Cru Bourgeois red Bordeaux....
...Hong Kong-listed Geely Automobile is a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Group, which took a 10 per cent stake in German carmaker Daimler in February....
...VW has more mid-range offerings than its German rivals Daimler, which owns the Mercedes brand, and BMW....
...While he was there, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission awarded a German insurer, Allianz, its first-ever approval to open a wholly foreign-owned insurance company....
...; and a 30-year-old sweet German Pinot Noir Trockenbeerenaudlese....
...It is unprecedented for German ministers to intervene in such a way....
...A person familiar with HNA’s investment in Deutsche Bank said the German lender saw the call to support the bond issue as positive....
...Wandering around my old college, I marvelled at the Chinese and German names at the bottom of staircases....
...All this is without considering the most famously long-lived white wines: German Riesling and Sauternes....
...Shares in German carmakers BMW and Volkswagen were 1.5 per cent and 0.8 per cent higher, respectively, in early trading following the announcement....
...Speaking on the eve of China’s largest car show, which opened in Beijing on Wednesday, the head of VW’s China operations said that this month’s liberalisation would have “no impact” on the German automaker...
...Research by McKinsey last year showed that connected smart cars are something that Chinese consumers are uniquely ready for — Chinese car buyers value connectivity approximately three times as much as Germans...
...Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing...
...Sixty-four per cent of Chinese polled by McKinsey in a study published last month said they would switch brands for better in-car connectivity, compared with 37 per cent of Americans and 19 per cent of Germans...
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