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...I’ll have that in spring, summer, or I could only drink rosé in the summer....
...So one of the things I love to do is when I get shrimp at home, I just put a little bit of white wine, parsley, grated garlic on a microplane and lemon juice. And I kind of let it sit....
...Links (all FT links get you past the paywall): – Hannah’s article on what young wine drinkers want: https://on.ft.com/3P2v4hU – Hannah is on X @hancrosbie. Her book Corker drops this spring....
...But are there places that you visited in the spring that you’ve really loved, or places that you want to go specifically in the spring?...
...As it is spring, we decided to host a spring feast featuring spring vegetables: white asparagus, cardoons, beans and green garlic, steamed artichoke with aioli, grated carrots and a big leafy salad....
...Drake’s suede Clifford desert boots, £295 Pourtraict de la Ville de Sainct Denis en France antique map, $275, raremaps.com Saint Laurent denim Western shirt, £620 Lobmeyr handblown crystal Patrician wine...
...French Bloom (left), a non-alcoholic sparkling wine from the Languedoc, has been taking off in the US....
...This last is a reference to the scores awarded by “experts” during the questionable en primeur tastings when, every spring, the world’s wine commentators and merchants are invited to Bordeaux to assess cask...
...It has a media room, wine cellar and hardwood flooring with an in-floor heating system....
...October 3 to 13; further information and tickets here Expovina Wine Fair Every year, this charming — and incredibly popular — wine fair is held on 12 boats on Lake Zürich....
...The 88 bottles go on sale this spring at £1,500 apiece – a price which also includes an NFT for a six-litre Methuselah of Rare Rosé 2014 to be redeemed in 2032 (£1,500, hedonism.co.uk)....
...Slow-cooked spring lamb with spices Combine two litres of water and 40g of salt and mix well to make a brine....
...Meyney of St-Estèphe springs to mind, and Siran in Margaux can last much longer than most Bordeaux drinkers realise....
...Zara’s Lip And Face Palettes (£22.99) contain trios of matte colours – Some Like It Soft will be great for spring....
...Illustrated with sleazy monochrome photography that could have come straight from the pages of Vice, it’s funny, original, irreverent – but also sneakily informative. £16.99, Ebury Press (spring 2024) @...
...This year’s exceptionally wet spring and early summer in Tuscany have exacerbated problems in the vineyard with almost jungle-like growth and inconvenient mud underfoot....
...There was the highly fragrant Rosa rugosa “Roseraie de L’Haÿ” and wine-coloured species peonies, their flowers like tea bowls....
...Its maker John Reidar explained that he often has to cover the vines in spring with a tight mesh to hasten the flowering. The scale is small....
...I am very fond of Transcarpathia, but I know little about its wine....
...Who Sally Botham House, Buxton, £750,000 Where In Buxton, a historic spa resort in the Peak District National Park, known for its mineral-rich spring water....
...That was great news for a champagne market which had lost an important part of its business, the restaurant industry, which closed in spring 2020 for more than a year. Champagne prices jumped....
...Chiming with the concurrent citrus season, Davies macerates his rhubarb with orange peel and juice, plus sugar, white wine, vanilla and star anise....
...Shops are important — the places we buy bread, meat, wine and tea....
...The next morning, Morne’s equally charming son, Douglas, leads us through the heat to a cave beside a spring where he swam as a boy....
...“But it’ll be nice,” she said, smiling, as we planned for the coming spring....
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