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...ArtFi 2024-1’s prospectus has further detail on the collateral backing the deal, which it notes can include “fine art, collectibles, design furniture, coins, books, jewelry, watches, wine or other spirits...
...At LVMH, the luxury industry’s bellwether, the wine and spirits division was the only one where sales fell in the first nine months of the year compared to the same period in 2022....
...chicken and mango salad and cold white wine has been set up on a veranda....
...Its wine and spirit business — about a fifth of group sales and 16 per cent of total operating profits last year — suffers from softer demand....
...Over the years, we savoured local customs, foods and conversations, doing our part to keep the spirit of an ancient community alive....
...Praise, then, for the Malibu Beach Inn (opened 1989), which notwithstanding a 2007 “luxury” upgrade still quietly evinces the spirit of the place....
...Scarcity contributes to the mystique of fine wines. But only when the wine rather than the bottles is in short supply. French and Portuguese wineries say they cannot find enough of the latter....
...Plus: a happy hour hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, the annual “best of the best” wine tasting and cooking demos aplenty....
...similar in spirit to Italy’s agriturismo farmstays....
...The trattoria serves Italian wines and seasonal dishes such as sea bass with saffron, red peppers and basil, with much of the produce grown in the grounds of Villa Bologna....
...“And so the days on the line are hard, bodies are sore, but spirits are high.”...
...The group made a chunky £191mn loss when it disposed of much of its wine business in 2015. But the focus on premium brands such as Johnnie Walker and Guinness paid off....
...Such community spirit is not necessarily a given these days, but it has always seemed especially strong in the nexus of Embajadores, Lavapiés and La Latina....
...The magic of the kitchen and the season transformed imported ingredients into the most British of festive foods: mulled wine, Christmas cake, nut roast, marzipan, gingerbread, chocolates, orange jelly, rum...
...business called Shroomlandia What to drink: There’s a limited selection of BC wines and local craft beers....
...These include doubts about his physical and mental fitness for office at the age of 81; a backlash from the left over America’s support for Israel; fears about immigration at the southern border; and stubbornly...
...in honour of Hung Shing, a fishermen and maritime traders’ deity known as the “god of the Southern Sea”....
...March 27 to April 21; further information and tickets here Melbourne Food and Wine Festival An all-star programme of global chefs and cuisine, with a vast array of tasting events of everything from wine...
...Seven small tables, the wall lined with glass cases of wines and the exotic spirits usually found under the sink at the end of parties, stashed there by the kids you left in charge while you were away....
...food and wine, and academia....
...It takes optimism and community spirit to address the crises of the day, activists argue in the piece....
...I get to look into Abramović’s mirror one cold November morning while visiting her and her mentor Dr Nonna Brenner in the southern Austrian Alps....
...I mentally prepare to embrace the Creole spirit. But Isaacson orders a modest glass of white wine — “it’s a house blend, very good” — and I follow suit....
...“As for what concerns the drink itself,” he wrote, “it is preferable to pass on to a discussion of wine.”...
...“Wine is in a different place in the journey compared to spirits and so we’re at a very nascent phase,” Samant said, arguing that after years of boom and bust, the industry had come to “a more stable place...
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