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...
...There was the highly fragrant Rosa rugosa “Roseraie de L’Haÿ” and wine-coloured species peonies, their flowers like tea bowls....
...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....
...Despite — or perhaps because of — the presence of festive sherry, the declarer found a variation of this play which simplified everything subsequently....
...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....
...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....
...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...
...Maroush, 21 Edgware Rd, W2 (maroush.com) An object I would never part with is a print from the German photographer Thomas Ruff’s Stars series....
...And what a remarkable face it is: slanted eyes, extravagantly tufted ears, a thick white ruff of white fur slung from its jowls, like a forked beard....
...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)....
...Contemporary photographers including Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Ruff and Cindy Sherman feature, as do photographs by multi-disciplinary artists including Richard Prince and Vik Muniz....
...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....
...wall spurred a muralist movement across the US (captured here in slides), the theme of heroes is echoed in a room that includes Warhol’s screen print of Muhammad Ali, and consummate paintings by Barkley L...
...the attention of Chinese regulators because of concerns about the financing strategies behind its purchase of $40bn in overseas assets in little more than two years, write Sherry Ju, Lucy Hornby and Archie...
...Off-dry (residual sugar is just 10g/l) and dark with hints of treacle toffee and bergamot....
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