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...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...It’s a beautiful little stone building tucked away on a cobbled side street in the New Town, and the small space doesn’t take much to get packed out....
...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...
...Behind it is a bar with several old barrels, lines of glasses and wine bottles and a blackboard showcasing ports, Madeiras and sherries....
...From a handpainted gouache design, the layout of stones is then digitised by an ultra-high-res scanner....
...Open the door and smoke spills out, revealing a heady mix of coconut fat-washed mezcal and sherry, amaro, smoke and moss....
...“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...
...A 300-metre-long garden, lined with stone walls, has potential for further design....
...On this Saturday, the market, held in a stone building in the heart of the town, heaved with keen shoppers and sublime produce....
...As she introduced the heir to the throne to Hollywood’s version of royalty ( “Your Royal Highness, this is Mr Oliver Stone”) she suddenly understood that “nobody is remotely real around royals”....
...Last time I was in the archive the owner offered me a glass of sherry – the business!”...
...Here and there, the Lighthouse makes reference to the old distillery: there are details fashioned from reclaimed stone and slate, and wall panels embedded with wood from Glenmorangie casks....
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is a holed stone with a root going into its cavity that looks like a penis, with a bit of a The Sword in the Stone vibe....
...The Flamingo was a popular live-music venue, where famous musicians such as members of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix hung out and listened to jazz and R&B....
...The Tokaji cask layers up the distillery’s signature golden pineapple and stone-fruit characters with notes of almond and jasmine tea. The finish is fine and dry....
...Think of the villa in Jacques Deray’s 1968 film La Piscine — a large stone and terracotta house with high ceilings and big windows, and a vast patio with a view of the Mediterranean — that’s where we’ll...
...Mark had bought some lemons, soy and Manzanilla sherry that they used to make a dressing for the sashimi. Then we ate right there on the rocks as the sun was still rising....
...15.5% Quinta de la Rosa 2004 Vintage Port £56 Berry Bros & Rudd Classically made from fruit grown on ancient stone terraces on the Bergqvist family estate outside Pinhão, now replete with restaurant and...
...“If the reputation of the town is not well-regulated it will eventually hurt all of us,” said Yang Tiannan, the chief executive of fund manager China Golden Stone and a member of Beijing Fund Town....
...And are the stone exteriors of its grand old palaces the best-cleaned on the continent?)...
...It had thick stone walls to resist the ferocious Arctic storms, a turntable at its centre, and inspection pits for engineers to work beneath the locomotives....
...The best wine made there by quite a margin. 10.5% Corte Mainente, Luna Nova 2016 Recioto di Soave, Italy £13.95 for 37.5cl Stone, Vine & Sun Italy is such a treasure trove of wines made sweet by drying...
...This is about the same ideal temperature range for light, fresh reds, including Beaujolais, simple Pinot Noirs and many ports and sherries....
...Sherry Coutu, who serves as a non-executive member of Cambridge university, has also been added to the board....
...So too the liquor in a bowl of mussels, which was in fact no more than a reduction of fino sherry and the cooking juices with a touch of butter....
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