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...Akhmetshina’s “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” was smooth and full of polished detail, pleasant when it should be enticing, and Carmen must be enticing....
...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...
...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....
...The invitation to the house’s spring/summer 2024 show last September featured a reproduction of Alison Watt’s Warrender, a trompe l’oeil painting of a twice-folded, then unfolded, piece of A4 printer paper...
...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 I remember Spain,” wrote the Irish poet Louis MacNeice, the “tripper” in the rain in 1938 recalling “sherry, shellfish, omelettes . . . fretted stone the Moor/Had chiselled for effects of sun and shadow...
...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....
...And there’s Chez l’Ami Louis, where I’ll order roast chicken – sounds simple, but it’s really good....
...In 2011 the widow of Swiss billionaire Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza chose a Baroque palace in Málaga to open the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga of Spanish 19th-century art....
...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!”...
...The last time the bar world went all-out escapist, the result was Tiki, a mid-20th-century movement that saw men the world over get comfortable drinking cocktails tricked out like Carmen Miranda....
...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....
...‘An integrity that no amount of adulation has corrupted’ L’Après-midi d’un Faune/The Prodigal Son, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London (October 31 1973) “We may associate Rudolf Nureyev with all the...
...Juan Diego Flórez showed he can still sing Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore as well as anybody and Camilla Nylund impressed as a well-schooled Sieglinde....
...My chef is Alain Passard of Paris’s L’Arpège, who revolutionised vegetable-based cuisine in France....
...The generous programme lasts nearly 90 minutes and includes operas that are unfamiliar in Kaufmann’s repertoire, such as Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine, Massenet’s Le Cid and Cilea’s L’arlesiana....
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...They were followed by the Carmen Thyssen Collection (2011), the Pompidou Centre and Russian Museum (both 2015), and the archaeological treasure-house of the Museo de Málaga (2016)....
...been as low as 7g/l....
...In the Dream House is short-story writer Carmen Maria Machado’s fragmented and elliptical account of domestic abuse in a lesbian relationship (Serpent’s Tail RRP£14.99, January; already available in the...
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