Hints and tips:
...XTX, one of the world’s biggest proprietary trading and market-making groups, had sought to use Aviva Investors’ and L&G Investment Management’s money-market funds to invest some of its own cash....
...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...
...Sir Nigel Wilson, chief executive of L&G, said that meeting the UK’s housing needs required “national and local collaboration coupled with modernisation of planning and construction, improvements to funding...
...L&G did not respond. The chancellor will reassure the City that he wants to work with pensions companies rather than telling them what to do....
...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 subsequent FBI raid on Sherry Lehman would attest to that....
...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...
...He recommended that I listen to Miles Davis’s soundtrack for Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Spotify link here)....
...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....
...S4 had been “eerily and worryingly silent” after it declined to explain the delay on Thursday, an analyst who preferred not to be named told the FT’s Patricia Nilsson and Michael O’Dwyer....
...Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz is as slight a confection as Italian verismo has to offer, a simple tale of gentle, young love among the cherry trees....
...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....
...been as low as 7g/l....
...A trick of the eye, a trompe-l'oeil. Just because you have said the problem is imaginary does not disappear the thread of reality....
...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...
...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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