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...Then, the FT’s wine columnist Jancis Robinson teaches us about the world of wine....
...“Filthy Lucre” travelled to the Smithsonian in 2015 to be shown alongside the original where James Robinson, a V&A curator, spotted it....
...Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,048: Craig Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword...
...Chipping Norton, Oxon, UK Not so new: MMT has distinguished precursors / From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...Its generally monotone nature — pungently perfumed, unashamedly tart, immediately recognisable and often a little bit sweet — has made it beloved by regular wine drinkers and rather despised by us hard-to-please...
...Brendan Robinson, who first found fame as an actor in the US teen drama Pretty Little Liars, discovered several years ago that posting photos of himself on Instagram with former co-stars would prompt countless...
...Burgundy v the rest — some favourites These are the wines I scored 17 out of 20 in the Berkmann tasting, complete with suggested drinking windows....
...Rotork has the single largest exposure in our coverage (~50% v 60% in 2014 though)....
...at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey....
...Which leaves us with the rather delicate issue of taste. As the FT’s wine critic Jancis Robinson noted in her recent sparkling wines review, “there are those for whom it has to be champagne”....
...Trust us, you’ll want to watch it. Email duncan.robinson@ft.com Twitter @duncanrobinson Email paul.mcclean@ft.com Twitter @psmcclean...
...Mr Schrems founded the organisation Europe v Facebook, which he is funding from small donations from “many concerned citizens” across Europe....
...This duo of Taittinger, Comtes de Champagne 2002s, of which one had clearly the more developed bouquet, led most of us to guess it was the bottle when, in fact, it was the magnum....
...Mr Schrems, who had already won some prominence with a one-man pressure group called Europe v Facebook that he started in 2011, took up the Safe Harbour cause after deciding that official responses to Snowden...
...If you stand in Ridge Vineyards’ historic Monte Bello vineyard — famous for its sterling performance in both the 1976 and, especially, the 2006 iterations of the Judgment of Paris France v California taste-off...
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...The American wine critic Robert M Parker Jr, granddaddy of US wine commentary, has presumably been watching this phenomenon from his base in the woods of Maryland for some time....
...The grower v merchant playing field is more level than ever and the majority of négociant businesses are every bit as motivated by quality as the small growers....
...The FT’s Jancis Robinson – who judges the competition and who, fortunately for us Cambridge types, avoided the Oxford university Wine Circle when she was a student – says that current competitors often taste...
...V is for victory and vociferousness. But also volatility....
...Busy owner-managers are short of time, but William Robinson, the sixth generation of his family to be involved in the brewery, says the commitment is worth it....
...The clothes were the symbol of the country that bewitched us all....
...The Cambridge coach, a past competitor who has served in the US army in Iraq and signs himself “Major Dave”, put them through five blind tastings a week in the month leading up to the match....
...Auctions are on trust – you have to trust bidders to honour their commitment, whether you’re Sotheby’s or us.”...
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