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...Monte Amiata in southern Tuscany....
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...The store was founded in 1946 and with about 5,000 wines and spirits, has the one of the largest selections in town....
...Carneros, at the cooler southern end, saw a rash of French investment at the end of the last century, with Taittinger and GH Mumm from Champagne and HdV, which is a joint project between Carneros grower...
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...However, the plans have sparked a furious backlash from the UK wine industry which supports more than 400,000 jobs and contributes £72bn in economic activity, according to the Wine and Spirit Trade Association...
...Many wine students in the UK will know him best in his subsequent role as an educator at the Wine & Spirit Education Trust....
...The Languedoc to the west of the southern Rhône is home to hundreds of ambitious wine producers, but it also churns out oceans of very ordinary wine....
...Preferabli’s raw material is a proprietary database of more than two million (and counting) wines, spirits and beers, which have been evaluated by a team of real-life Masters of Wine and Master Sommeliers...
...But you can look out for the words Cabernet Sauvignon if it’s, you know, a wine from the southern hemisphere somewhere like Australia or Chile....
...Grauniad: The government consumed more than 1,400 bottles of wine and spirits at the taxpayer’s expense and topped up its cellar with £27,000 of fresh stock during the two years of the Covid pandemic from...
...It’s an audacious concept and, in some respects, out of step with the times, which have seen the influence of Burgundy lead to the fetishisation of ever-more localised wines (a trend satirised by the movie...
...We fund 50 places on their Wine & Marketing programme – because, of course, there are a lot of employment opportunities in wine in that part of the world....
...A growing number of health-conscious consumers rejecting beer, wine and spirits represents “a big opportunity”, said the chief executive of Japan’s biggest brewer Asahi, who forecast zero- and low-alcohol...
...“For a Cotswolds wedding,” says Chenai Bukutu of ByChenai Events, “we gifted bottles of Blackfords limoncello.” A surefire way to send everyone home in good spirits. @alicelascelles...
...But the bipartisan spirit did not last long enough to pass another measure, on strengthening US border security, which Republicans had long linked to help for Ukraine....
...“What’s shocking is that we’re not shocked,” said Ian Harris, the recently retired head of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust, at the presentation of the results in October, where he was one of only three...
...There’s competition from abstinence and cannabis but also alternative alcoholic drinks, which are so much more interesting now than they were when a handful of mass-produced brands of beer and spirits ruled...
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...Before that she was a spirits buyer for whisky specialist Milroy’s, and also set up the spirits department for fine wine trading platform Bordeaux Index....
...wines and spirits during a trade dispute between plane makers Airbus and Boeing....
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