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...Even at Baltic Foods, the eastern European speciality store, there were few Poles to be found....
...• Visits online hydroponics store six times in two days• Mobile phone location data shows regular visits to GrowHigh, a store selling drugs paraphernalia • Volume of text messages triples and calls quadruples...
...“It’s my first store and I love it,” she says....
...The obvious goal is to export bottled wines at higher margins, but with some 20,000 brands in Spain alone, standing out and getting into stores abroad requires a big effort....
...Goods from brands such as Ocean Spray juices, Quaker cereals and Vina Concha y Tora wines are already available on both sites....
...Pretty fine for a Bourgogne. 13% £18.85 Corney & Barrow, 0207 265 2400, www.corneyandbarrow.com López Heredia, Viña Gravonia 2003 Rioja 100% Viura. Unashamedly oaky nose....
...Not that intense but complex, distinctive and interesting. 13% £9.25 Oddbins, 0800 328 2323, www.oddbins.com Baron de Ley, Tesco Finest Viña Mara Gran Reserva 2004 Rioja Charm incarnate in this unusually...
...Tourists snubbed the city en masse, preferring beach resorts to the north like Viña del Mar or Reñaca....
...Co-op stores in the UK have been selling it and the 2011 at £7.50 but although it has been hanging around on my tasting table all this time, Fairview, La Capra Pinotage 2010 Paarl is far from dead....
...Real earthiness: proper Sylvaner character. 12% £7.95 The Wine Society Viña Costeira 2009 Ribeiro Made from Treixadura grown in the north-west of Spain....
...£45 The Sampler CVNE, Viña Real Reserva 1985 Rioja Complex, satisfying. Beautifully balanced, fully mature wine – long and reverberant....
...Almost irresistible. £12.99 Noel Young, AG Wines Viña do Campo Mencía 2008 Ribeiro 17 Drink 2009-12 Aromatic and lingering raspberry fruit from this fashionable grape native to north west Spain....
...As Vino Volo expands (the goal is 50 stores in five years), Tomlinson believes he can offer local wines anywhere....
...Good spicy cocktail. 14.5% Altair, Sideral 2003 Cachapoal, Chile £13.95 SVSRich and very lively blend of Cabernet, Merlot and Syrah from this joint venture between the Dassaults of St-Emilion and Viña San...
...Pinot Noir, Las Brisas, Viña Leyda 2004 Chile Adnams £11.99 Leyda is right on the Pacific, which cools this new wine region. Lots of fruit, sufficient zip. You might take it for Central Otago blind....
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