Hints and tips:
...The FT’s own Jancis Robinson is one. She gave very high scores — 19.5 out of 20 — to the 2008 vintage, more than for those champagnes in the next best to follow in 2012....
...“Instead of preparing to welcome our students back to class, we’re having to call parents to have very difficult conversations about the fact the school is closed next week,” said headteacher Louise Robinson...
...For Gibb at Liv-ex, this year smacks of the 2010 release. He and others sense the uncertainty among buyers....
...Even more surprising is a development outlined in Rebecca Gibb’s book The Wines of New Zealand....
...was that she did not pursue her studies in catering management but went to work for the quirky wine retailer Oddbins, then in a vineyard in New Zealand and later as personal assistant to the late Hilary Gibbs...
...The six pairs of Sauvignons for our blind tasting were chosen by wine scientist Jamie Goode of wineanorak.com, who has studied Sauvignon Blanc in considerable scientific detail, and Rebecca Gibb, one-time...
...Mr Gibbs said he wants investors with an eye on the future. “We want long-term investment coming into the business. We have a very strong strategy and want to look forward over five to seven years.”...
...Mr Gibbs declined to comment on the company’s plan for a float....
...Gibbs then passed it on to William Robert Prince of the Linnaean Botanic Garden in Flushing, Long Island, who named it Isabella (Vitis isabellae) in 1822 in honour of the colonel’s wife, Mrs Isabella Gibbs...
...the group announced its IPO plans two weeks ago there was talk of floating at more than £1bn, valuing the 80% stake held by Jupiter’s staff – including top fund managers John Chatfeild-Roberts and Philip Gibbs...
...RBS’s strategists also see the prospect of intervention, as Greg Gibbs noted earlier this week (our link): Judging by the rhetoric in Japan, FX intervention may occur at any time....
...Jupiter, which manages just under £20bn in funds aimed largely at retail investors, is majority owned by its managers including investors Tony Nutt and Philip Gibbs....
...Justin Gibbs, a director of Liv-ex, said the jump in prices showed that people do have money to invest in wine....
...Jancis Robinson: Bordeaux versus the rest of the world...
...The team – which includes Jonathan Carey, Mr Bonham Carter’s fellow joint chief executive, as well as Philip Gibbs, Anthony Nutt and John Chatfeild-Roberts, Jupiter’s leading fund managers, is taking a majority...
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