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...Walter Speller, Italy editor on JancisRobinson.com, recommends Sergio Arcuri’s Aris Classico Riserva Cirò....
...Travertine. 1838 Wallcoverings x Victoria and Albert Museum Nine wallpaper patterns in more than 30 colourways segue “from the grandeur of Pineapple to the intricacy of Calico Shell and the opulence of Walter...
...The Riserva is made from a couple of barrels from their older, lower plot of vines....
...But such are the natural challenges, such as the salinity of the soil, that Sauls admits it may take another 10 years to establish the vines....
...Dickinson never made waves outside his immediate circle — in the local council archive are letters from George Bernard Shaw and Walter Crane declining to read the manuscript of his memoirs....
...Former investment banker Walter Kraushaar, originally from Germany, planted vines beside the farmhouse he shares with his American partner William Stanley in Inca, a town in the centre of the island....
...The Italian specialist Walter Speller on JancisRobinson.com suggests that 2001 and 2004 are ideal vintages of Barolo to drink now, plus perhaps the 2015s....
...We almost lost our Italian specialist, Walter Speller, when he finally made it there, so vertiginous are the slopes on the 50km stretch along the right bank of the Adda valley to which 2,500km of vine terraces...
...Today, however, as Padua-based wine writer Walter Speller observes: “Wine consultants like Ferrini are still finding plenty of work, but the difference is that producers who avail themselves of consultants...
...Early-ripening Merlot, even the cosseted vines of Masseto, suffers particularly — despite the useful cooling sea breezes that can be depended upon in Bolgheri’s best sites....
...Blair Walter, Greening’s winemaker, whose father was an agricultural spray pilot — “so I grew up smelling all these chemicals” — describes how their changing roster of interns love grinding the quartz to...
...Here We Go Again , offers a familiar feel-good formula, with Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Julie Walters and Amanda Seyfried reprising their former roles....
...Tastings are meant to be blind but they are not always stringently policed and, according to Italian specialist wine writer Walter Speller, “There is potential for bias, because wines that do not conform...
...Even so, the dry summer of 2012 stressed the vines considerably and many growers were careful to leave enough leaves on the vine to shade bunches and prevent sunburn, an increasing problem in warmer regions...
...I did do a little preparation, asking Walter Speller, the Italian specialist on my website, to recommend a few producers....
...international Grenache Symposium organised there in 2010, which arguably lit the current flame, was the brainchild of Nicole Sierra-Rolet, wife of Xavier Rolet, head of the London Stock Exchange, and Scot Walter...
...First, musician and composer Walter Murphy disco-fied Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with “A Fifth of Beethoven”....
...Other nods to the Paduan include the cherubs and vines carved on the marble throne — a beguiling instance of pagan styles infiltrating the Christian story....
...Pergolas and terraces, which drip with trumpet vine in summer, look down on standing stones and a massive “stone henge” framing the lake....
...The occasion was the opening of a new clubhouse, and an America vs England pro-celebrity doubles match in which Chaplin and Fred Perry were to play Marx and Ellsworth Vines....
...It has lower latitudes than France, which means that vines are planted at significantly higher altitudes, and its vine-growing coastline is considerably longer, and so more varied....
...The technology was developed by two Americans, Jeff Geoffrey and Walter Josten, who have worked in the film industry for decades....
...Married to Sarah Vine, a Daily Mail columnist, and the father of a young daughter, Bea, and a son, Will, Gove has always been a fascinating figure at Westminster....
...Victor Horta’s 1898 Brussels house (now a museum) revels in the sinuous art nouveau organicism of the metalwork that appears to be growing through the core of the house like a vine....
...Dry, appetising finish. 13.5% £10.95 Corney & Barrow, 020 7265 2400, www.corneyandbarrow.com Walter Clappis, The Hedonist Shiraz 2010 McLaren Vale Polished, fun, pure....
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