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Why you should try Montenegro's rare white wine

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By Teja Lele Verified
| Mint
The glass of wine sits on the table, silhouetted against sky and sea. Droplets bead on its surface in the afternoon heat. I lift it, catch the floral aromas and take a sip. It's crisp, light, and refreshing. But this isn't just another Mediterranean white. It's Krstač. Montenegro may be best known for Vranac, its bold indigenous red, but this white grape tells a more unusual story: it grows almost nowhere else on Earth.
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How to decode the word 'alright' as a tourist in the UK

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By Teja Lele Verified
| HT Syndication
New Delhi, July 12 -- "Alright?" An ordinary question, asked in perfectly ordinary circumstances. But I hesitated. Years of travelling through Britain have taught me to hear those two words differently. In a London pub, a Welsh bookshop, on a Cornish coastal path or in a tiny Scottish cafe, "alright?" rarely means what it seems to. Most of the time, it isn't really a question at all. My education began in a London pub.
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How to decode the word ‘alright’ as a tourist in the UK

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By Teja Lele Verified
| Mint
Somewhere along the way, “all right” stopped being two words in Britain. Spoken quickly enough, it became “alright”, less a question and more a greeting, an acknowledgement, sometimes an entire conversation in a single word. Rob Temple, author of Very British Problems, explains that it’s misleading to describe “alright?” as a greeting because it’s “more of a noise based around the word ‘alright’.” He writes: “It’s more of an ’ite?’ and often even less than that.
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