Posts Tagged ‘ Italy ’

Wine Review: Dessert wines

December 5, 2011
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It seems most peculiar that, for a nation of sugar cravers, we don’t make more of dessert wines. We whip out the liqueurs and chocs at the end of a big dinner, but rarely a pudding wine. Or, worse, we stick with whatever we were sipping with our main course, despite the fact that...

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Top 20 bottles of fizz for Christmas

December 1, 2011
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Top 20 bottles of fizz for Christmas

At its offer price, this is the very best cheap prosecco I could find, although I’d avoid it at full price because you can do better for the money. Italy, 11%, Waitrose, £6.66 down from £9.99, from Dec 7 to Jan 3. Picture: martin pope/clara molden Advertisement http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8928498/Top-20-bottles-of-fizz-for-Christmas.html

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Berlusconi says he’ll back his successor – for now. Not a very cheery scenario | Alexander Chancellor

November 18, 2011
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Berlusconi says he’ll back his successor – for now. Not a very cheery scenario | Alexander Chancellor

Alexander Chancellor Silvio Berlusconi faces 40 court appearances. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex So now, after towering over his nation’s political scene for  longer even than Margaret Thatcher, the grotesque figure of Silvio Berlusconi has finally thrown in the towel. Having first come to power in 1994, after successfully peddling the notion that a person of...

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