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...There was some consternation a decade ago when Jackson Family Wines (JFW), which owns 28 California wineries, rapidly acquired Gran Moraine, Penner-Ash, WillaKenzie and Zena Crown in the Willamette Valley...
...The raw materials are just silica sand, soda ash and limestone. But as energy costs have been escalating, so have bottle prices....
...The next morning, en route to Guardiola, a prized parcel of vineyards (contrada) to the north of Etna, it’s clear why FT wine writer Jancis Robinson has called this “some of the strangest wine country in...
...Warmer summers and mastery of oak have transformed German reds from pale greyish pinks tasting of ash to serious rivals to red burgundy....
...She talks about Joan Robinson, who was an advocate for the minimum wage. She talks a lot about Labour’s part in that....
...It is more fundamental than a struggle over political representation; it is also a struggle over the definition of normality, writes Timothy Garton Ash....
...Fifty-year-old Foster became the first woman to lead the DUP when she succeeded Peter Robinson in December 2015....
...Robinson would be advised to clear her shelves for more awards....
...This, I know well, is the ultimate slight for someone mad about wine — especially if you’re the person who bought the bottle as Tonya Pitts, wine director of One Market in San Francisco, observed to me ruefully...
...Mrs Foster was minister in charge of the scheme that became known as cash-for-ash after cost controls included in a similar scheme in the rest of the UK were left out....
...Sprinkling cigarette ash on the ice and heckling her own daughter, she outclasses everyone on screen with a perfect 6.0 performance. ★★★☆☆...
...“I think there should be,” replies Garton Ash....
...Participants this year ran a fictitious airport and faced problems such as a volcanic ash cloud and a bomb scare. They were deprived of sleep and fed misleading information....
...At the Iran nuclear deal smouldering on the ash heap of diplomacy. At the two insane hairdos in Pyongyang and Washington DC....
...Waste-to-energy incinerators have the virtue of congregating bulky waste and reducing it to ash using self-generated power; surplus power generated by steam turbines can then be sold to the national grid...
...Email duncan.robinson@ft.com Twitter @duncanrobinson Macron and on and on Bien joué/Bien Fait A characteristically striking front page from Liberation....
...The third-generation papermaker mixes the bark of a mulberry tree (kozo) with ash and water; he beats it to a pulp with a stick for an hour to break the fibres before making slurry....
...Brexitometer Tim Garton Ash explains his Brexitometer in the Guardian. “These days, I never travel without my Brexitometer....
...At a presentation of the findings at Chatham House last week, Jancis Robinson, the FT’s wine critic, and Tamara Roberts, head of the Ridgeview Wine Estate, an English producer (who is bullish on the future...
...Defence secretary Ash Carter, and General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, were also attending the event....
...Stories of individuals pitted against the cruel forces of nature have a broad and enduring appeal, from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road....
...Deborah Arnott, chief executive of antismoking charity ASH, said: “Of course the ITIC is arguing against the WHO tobacco tax guidelines – it’s funded by the big tobacco multinationals....
...But the report by ASH also revealed that only 0.1 per cent of non-smokers regularly used an e-cigarette....
...Deborah Arnott, chief executive of ASH, said: “In principle we are supportive of e-cigarettes, because they are less harmful.”...
...A spokesman for ASH, the anti-smoking group, said: “We want to see smokers switching to these much less harmful products but we don’t want to see non-smokers starting on them.”...
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