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...
...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...
...Equity partners at Davis Polk & Wardwell took home $5.6mn in profit shares, 21 per cent less than the previous year, while Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft partners’ profit share plunged 30 per cent....
...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....
...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....
...Additional reporting by Xinning Liu, Sherry Fei Ju and Sun Yu in Beijing...
...My chef is Alain Passard of Paris’s L’Arpège, who revolutionised vegetable-based cuisine in France....
...Annette L Nazareth and Gabriel D Rosenberg are partners in the financial institutions group of Davis Polk & Wardwell, a global law firm...
...been as low as 7g/l....
...Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Jiu in Beijing...
...“There hasn’t been any real impact from the trade war yet,” said Andrew Polk at Trivium, a Beijing-based consultancy. “There’s always another round of tariffs coming that traders want to front-run.”...
...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...
...Annette L Nazareth and Gabriel D Rosenberg are partners in the financial institutions group of Davis Polk & Wardwell, the global law firm...
...“My gut instinct is they’ve been heavily reliant on debt,” said Andrew Polk, an economist at Trivium China, a consultancy in Beijing. “I’d be astonished if they didn’t have a high debt load.”...
...Annette L. Nazareth and Gabriel D. Rosenberg are partners in the financial institutions group of Davis Polk & Wardwell, the global law firm...
...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....
...Société Générale and Clifford Chance advised FFC; and Messier Maris & Associés and Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Starwood and L Catterton....
...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)....
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