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...Why The agricultural area the property is set within has vineyards, olive trees and lavender fields. Residents can join the annual grape harvest party and get wine for only the cost of bottling....
...The château and its accompanying 30 hectares of vineyard turned out to be a savvy investment....
...Another scheme compensates farmers who agree to rip out vineyards and convert the land to woods or leave it fallow....
...There’s no formal classification of vineyards and the wines tend to be distributed by specialist importers rather than via an international network....
...Dusty farms and homesteads, vineyards perched on steep hills, forests and rivers glide past my window like a slideshow of scruffy beauty. “This is proper Georgia,” the driver tells us, and he’s right....
...There is such an amazing mix of landscape there, from small creeks and bays to vineyards and forest....
...It’s 9am on a February morning in the vineyards of Château Galoupet, and the Provence sun is already beating down....
...Toiling “day-in and day-out in the vineyards of memory”, he discovers that reconciling with the past — national and personal — is more easily said than done....
...She has chosen an amber bottle that weighs less than 500g and is made of 70 per cent recycled glass to launch the estate’s rosé from its own vineyards....
...He migrated to Italy in the 1990s, then returned in 2001 to preside over a vineyard his family had owned for generations but that had lain dormant during communism....
...Dutch/Tanzanian photography curator and angel investor Elaine Groenestein grows two hectares of raspberry plants and 17 types of chilli at her finca near Sant Joan de Labritja, marketing her products under...
...It’s set in the Tuscan hills close to Siena, in a landscape of olive trees and vineyards, with room for a spacious studio inside a former stable....
...His 16cm by 21cm “Abraham and the Angels” (1646) is estimated between $20m and $30m and has a guaranteed price offered by the auction house (generally set just below the low estimate)....
...I have to take my hat off to Sacha Lichine and his team for establishing the Whispering Angel brand, now blended from multiple sources all over Provence, from scratch to world — or at least US — domination...
...“Provence,” he notes, “has had 30 or 40 years to focus both technical developments and vineyard investments on rosé.”...
...these new-wave California wines are not so familiar, some of the producer names are just as unusual: Dirty & Rowdy is now quite well-established but there are Ashes & Diamonds, The Federalist, Jolie-Laide, Angels...
...For the Kalash, said the Qazi, this valley was alive with invisible protector gods and goddesses, demons and angels, spirits and sprites, fairies and djinns, good and bad....
...Chapel Down, a vineyard, was already quoted on the Nex exchange (formerly ISDX) when it raised money at 28p a share in October 2014. It has been trading around three times that level....
...In May this year another pilot met his end, this time in a Californian vineyard....
...Loire, £14.95 Le Mouton Rouge, Canterbury • Hofstätter Alto Adige, £19.50 Eagle’s Wines, Battersea • Casa Valduga, Identidade Encruzilhada do Sul 2015 Serra do Sudeste, Brazil, £15.99 Selfridges • Lost Angel...
...Owning a French vineyard estate signals social prestige....
...From the terrace of a stylish hotel in a converted farmhouse I could see olive groves, vineyards, patches of pine forest, the distant Mediterranean....
...After working for a while in a vineyard, and having no luck with a private tutor, they succeed in enrolling David in a dance academy, run by a señor Arroyo and his coldly beautiful wife, that specialises...
...looks as deliciously uncertain as the wavering affections of Dorabella and Fiordiligi that unfold, in a live outdoor screening of Così fan tutte from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, against a backdrop of vineyards...
..., that now also carries the words “Rock Angel” on the label and sells for about £29; the more oak-dominated Les Clans 2013 at £60 and Garrus 2013 from one particularly old vineyard, at a bold £100 a bottle...
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