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Highland Scotch whisky distillery The Glenturret has unveiled The Glenturret Eight Decades. The £80,000 ($100,000) single malt has been created to mark the 80th birthday of celebrated American artist James Turrell. The decanter for Eight Decades was designed by Turrell in collaboration with crystal maker Lalique. This is the third time the artist has worked with the French company, and his first whisky bottle design. The Glenturret whisky maker Bob Dalgarno drew on conversations with Turrell in ...

Do growers make wine – or do markets? Growers, of course. Yet markets define the scope of the grower’s creative efforts by what they reward or sanction. When markets are neglectful and unresponsive, there’s little the grower can do but conform. It’s a problem the world over. Here’s an example. The river Moselle/Mosel rises to the wet west of the Vosges mountains, then curves in a long green arc heading north through Epinal, Metz and (along the left bank) Luxembourg’s Grand Duchy, turning east at ...

St Hilaire is the patron saint of Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, the pretty Champagne village which is famous for scoring 99 on the Echelle des Crus. (This classification of Champagne vineyards was developed in the mid-20th century as a means of setting the price of grapes grown through the villages of the Champagne wine region.) Prime territory That the village missed out on grand cru status by one point is generally agreed to be an injustice – all the more so as it is home not only to the superlative Clos de ...