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Wine: Something For The Weekend?
Saturday 28 January 2006
2004 Peter Lehmann Barossa Valley Riesling; 004 The Storm Sangiovese Merlot; 2004 Crozes Hermitage, Alain Graillot
101 cocktails that shook the world #4: The Scarlett O'Hara
Saturday 12 February 2005
Being the most effective of all legal aphrodisiacs, cocktails are ideally suited for Valentine's Day, which falls on Monday. The intended effect may, however, be undermined if you essay such vulgar appellations as the Slow Comfortable Screw or Knickerdropper Glory.
Letter: Rudely interrupted
Sunday 26 December 1999
CONTRARY TO what Beryl Bainbridge says ("And the whisky was served in pint glasses", 19 December), Stephenson's Rocket had its inaugural run on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway as the most successful entrant in the Rainhill Trials in 1829. The other two contenders were Stephenson's "Locomotion No 1" and the Braithwaite and Ericsson "Novelty".
Outlook: Lloyd's of London
Wednesday 11 August 1999
IT HAS taken Lloyd's of London 300 years to get where it is today, which is to say from a collection of individuals who met in a coffee shop to one of the biggest and certainly the most unique insurance markets in the world. Judging by the noises emanating from Lime Street yesterday, it could be another 300 years before Lloyd's takes the ultimate step and demutualises.
Somehow I never did feel at home quaffing pints of foaming euphoria
Saturday 07 August 1999
Yesterday I began the first volume of my autobiography - My Life in Beer. An evening among the tankard-bearing hayseeds gathered in Olympia for the Great British Beer Festival set me off, though in truth we go back a long way, beer and I. Or at least lager and I do. But you can't call your autobiography My Life in Lager. It sounds too much like the story of a South African internment. Which would be to overstate my suffering.
Drink: Good things come to an end
Sunday 28 March 1999
IN THE United States, when you want to bring something unpleasant to an end you are "seeking closure". This week I am seeking closure in two (not at all unpleasant) areas. First, the Wine Relief raffle. I received 51 cheques for pounds 5, and the one plucked from the hat came from Peter Wood of Loscoe, Derbyshire. Many thanks to all who entered, your cheques are on their way to Wine Relief.
Design: Carve his name in lime-wood
Friday 16 October 1998
At last, thanks to the passion of an American, Grinling Gibbons is being honoured with an exhibition at the V&A.
In 25m years it'll be like Club Med
Sunday 20 September 1998
Dominica is one of the few Caribbean islands to have escaped the invasion of holiday-makers. Now its natural beauty is attracting a new kind of visitor - the eco-tourist.
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