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Whiter than White
Much as we admire the op art of Bridget Riley, the films of Francois Truffaut and the frocks of Mary Quant, sometimes we grow tired of black and white. Two decidedly colorful champagne styles have overstated their case for decades. Champagne labelled blanc de blancs literally means ‘’white from whites” which is to indicate the [...]
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Fizzy Logic
The financial sector may be wincing from a wee touch of stress, but show some sympathy for sparkling wines which are also under undue pressure. Bottled with an atmospheric heft equivalent to a double-decker KMB tire (about 5-6 bars) or about three times as much as an ordinary car tire, sparkling wines grapple with substantial [...]
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A River Runs Through It
Just as the Yangtze River is China’s longest river, so the Loire River is the longest in France. These rivers have little in common, of course. The Yangtze is over 6000 kilometres long and the Loire clocks in at a mere 1,000 clicks. It in its way, the slow moving silt-laden Loire River more closely [...]
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