FIVE FABULOUSLY FRUITY WINES
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Zuccardi Los Olivos Malbec 2018 (£11.60, 14%)
This deep red, full-bodied 100% malbec comes from the high-altitude Uco Valley to the west of Argentina. Zuccardi are known for their rich malbecs but Los Olivos with its blackcurrant and blueberry notes is an easy drinker and very moreish. Available from Taurus Wines.
2 Pisano Progreso Tannat Reserve 2019 (£9.95, 14%)
A fresh, characterful and full-bodied Uruguayan tannat combines ripe red fruits and a mellow finish. Tannat can be a tad robust for some palates but this example is smooth, mellow and appealing. Available from The Wine Society.
3 Errázuriz Estate Merlot 2019/2020 (£10.80, 13.5%)
Viña Errázuriz is undoubtedly one of Chile’s best-known winemaking brands. This soft, smooth merlot combines flavours of ripe red fruit and caramel for a delicious, understated finish. Available from Majestic and Tesco.
4 Veramonte Sauvignon Blanc 2019 (£11.49, 13.5%)
You can almost taste the cool Pacific Ocean breeze in this organic sauvignon blanc from Chile’s Casablanca Valley. It’s vibrant and aromatic, a beautiful light yellow in colour, with subtle floral notes combined with lime and tangerine that provides a long, satisfying finish. Available from Ocado.
5 Faldeos Nevados Torrontés 2019 (£8.95, 13%)
Torrontés is one of those grapes that seems to split opinion. But this example from Argentina’s famed Mendoza region is just right. Full bodied and tangy with floral notes including elderflower and honeysuckle. Slightly on the sweet side but a very easy wine to fall for. Available from The Wine Society.
TWO briefcases holding the final secrets of Moors Murderer Ian Brady could finally be unlocked.
Home Secretary Priti Patel is to bring in a new law which will force Brady’s lawyer to give detectives access to the private documents for the first time.
Until now police have been unable to examine any of the contents of the two combination-locked Samsonite briefcases left by Brady after his death in May 2017.
But it is hoped they may contain papers which could help in the search for the body of Keith Bennett, the 12-year-old murdered by Brady and his lover Myra Hindley in 1964.
Secure
For years Brady kept the cases in a cupboard beside his bed in Room 35 of the Ashworth Secure Mental Hospital, near Liverpool, refusing to hand over their contents. Hours before he died at the age of 79, he asked that they be put into secure storage.
They are now being held by Brady’s solicitor and executor of his will, Robin Makin.
Keith’s family solicitor John Ainley told the Daily Express in 2019 he feared they had reached “a dead end” over the briefcases.
“If it’s not disclosed voluntarily, we can’t force the issue,” he said then, adding that it was “frustrating” for Keith’s brother Alan and all the Bennett family.
The Home Office is expected to release further details about the new legislation when the proposed Bill is introduced. Sadistic serial killers Brady and Hindley tortured
and murdered five children in the early 1960s, burying four bodies on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester.
Their crimes were uncovered in 1965 when Hindley’s brother-in-law told police he saw Brady kill Edward Evans, 17, at the couple’s
home in Hattersley, Manchester.The pair were jailed for life in 1966 for the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward while Brady was also convicted of killing 12-year-old John Kilbride.
In 1987 the pair admitted killing Keith and 16-year-old Pauline
Reade. Pauline’s body was found still wearing her party dress in a shallow grave on Saddleworth Moor after Brady and Hindley returned with police to the scene of their crimes.
But Keith’s has never been found and his heartbroken mother Winnie
Johnson, died in 2012 aged 78. She said she had suffered “over 40 years of hell” and described Brady as ‘‘like Hannibal Lecter,” getting pleasure from mind games.
Hindley died in hospital aged 60 in 2002. Mr Makin and Mr Ainley were unavailable yesterday.
SIRWilliam Macpherson was a little-known High Court judge until he was chosen to lead the inquiry in 1997 into the death of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, who was stabbed to death by white thugs in south London.
Over 59 days he and three other inquiry members, including Bishop John Sentamu, analysed more than 100,000 documents.Two years later, his 335-page report changed policing in Britain for ever.
Macpherson found that the Metropolitan Police force was institutionally racist, which affected the Lawrence murder investigation.Then Home Secretary Jack Straw told the Commons the judge had opened the country’s eyes to what it was like to be black or Asian in Britain.
Critics condemned him for being unfair on the police and blamed him for an upsurge in crime and worsening race relations. But Macpherson stuck to his guns, describing criticism as “water off a duck’s back”, and encouraged Scotland Yard officials to “get over it” and focus on making improvements.
Born in Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross, after serving as a captain in the Scots Guards, he joined the 21st Regiment of the Special Air Service Territorial Army.
In 1983, he was appointed a Judge of the High Court.At the Old Bailey in 1993 he presided over the trial of Robert Black, who
notoriously murdered three children, recommending he should serve 35 years. He was made 27th chief of the Macpherson clan in 1969 and lived at Newton Castle near Blairgowrie.
His son James becomes the 28th chief of Clan Macpherson. His wife Sheila died in 2003.