Hints and tips:
...Sue Harris of wine consultancy Westbury Communications has been organising generic wine events in the UK for 30 years....
...This must be one of the least expensive wines anywhere from centenarian vines. Quite long....
...The exception is the company’s “vine” review programme, an invite-only scheme where top reviewers are sent free products that are not contingent on a positive review....
...Crops included fruiting vines and melons, and these were either sent up to the “big house” if the family was in residence or carefully packaged and sent via train to London....
...Tumbling vines have a similar effect; try the Heartleaf Philodendron. Perrone — in defiance of the trend for greens only — advocates flowering plants....
...Multi-genre £2.2m - £2.25m Chris Evans, presenter£850,000 - £900,000 Graham Norton, presenter£700,000 - £750,000 Jeremy Vine, presenter£600,000 - £650,000 John Humphrys, presenter£550,000 - £600,000 Huw...
...We sniff, sip and spit, first a white Châteauneuf-du-Pape, then a Roussanne-rich blend from old, low-yielding vines....
...vine supplier in the early years of this century....
...Within minutes we spot the Inniskillin winery, set among silent, serried ranks of snow-dusted vines. We circle, hover and put down gently....
...It was at Cambridge that he first met Sue, whom he later married, but after graduating she worked in overseas aid, while he went to Wales where he lived reclusively making inexpensive domestic pots in earthy...
...cook, who has “a thin but stubborn slovenly streak” appears, looking “tidy, but for a shred of leek in her hair and a wild expression”; Charlotte, thinks Emerald, is a “drooping, weak-stemmed, climbing vine...
...Tony Vine-Lott, the TISA director-general said: “Allowing the voluntary transfer from a CTF to a JISA is a pragmatic, practical solution....
...(Please don’t sue me over this.)...
...Look out for wines from Oliver Conti in Cantallops, Martí Fabra in Sant Climent Sescebes or Martin Faixó whose vines grow on the wild slopes on the road up to Cadaqués....
...“That’s the No. 1 issue on the doorsteps,” insisted Sue Doughty, the Lib Dem candidate....
...Sulzburg is a small village in the heart of the Markgräflerland, a land of vines, cherries and apples at the foot of the southern Black Forest....
...Then they are roasted to golden, crisp-skinned perfection – an hour and a half is needed for a five to six-kilo beast in fiercely hot ovens fired by a mixture of vine clippings and eucalyptus bark....
...Sal Vine (Sue Johnston), the central character, is a practice nurse whose uptight doctor-son has tried to banish her from his surgery: she sees clients privately, leading to a rumour that she is a prostitute...
...The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 By Sue Townsend Michael Joseph £10.99 320 pages FT Bookshop price: £8.79 When Adrian Mole, The Wilderness Years was published four years ago, author Sue Townsend...
...Sommelier Jurgen Fendt, twice a finalist in the Meilleur Sommelier du Monde competition, is a walking encyclopaedia and genial guide to vines, grapes and wines....
...Just as grapes destined for ice wine are left on the vine, so perfectly ripe apples with high sugar content are left to freeze on the tree (or picked and stored in wooden crates), awaiting the requisite...
...Occasionally, they ate the breast as a steak, cooked rare over the embers of vine cuttings....
...The high point is dinner, robust and delicious, prepared and hosted by owners Roberto Melosi and Marie-Sylvie Haniez and served daily on the terrace under a vine-clad pergola in summer, or around the refectory...
...Tribesmen from Vanuatu have been doing it with vines for centuries. But this thrill was only invented two years ago and is now being franchised worldwide....
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