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...More recently, climate fiction — or “cli-fi” — has gone mainstream, with novels such as Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour and The Deluge by Stephen Markley exploring the causes and consequences of climate...
...I mentioned the name Barbara Banke to the well-connected head of one of her UK importers and it meant nothing....
...The wine, A Tribute to Grace 2017, was made by Angela Osborne from Santa Barbara Highlands Vineyard, whose raison d’être as a winemaker, the accompanying notes tell us, “is replicating a bottle of Château...
...As Thomas Webb, son of the respected Stellenbosch wine producers Gyles and Barbara Webb at Thelema Mountain Vineyards, put it to me: “The domestic market can’t bear much of a price increase.”...
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...Together with Artek, the ICA launched an artist’s edition of the stool by Barbara Kruger in 2019....
...I have deliberately excluded producers whose Chardonnays are more obviously influenced by Pacific fogs, such as those in cooler parts of Sonoma Coast and Santa Barbara....
...Tide, Mariah Vineyard Chardonnay 2017 Mendocino Ridge $36 Flatiron Wines & Spirits, San Francisco DeSante, Old Vines White 2014 Napa Valley£39.99 AG Wines Paul Lato, Matinee Sauvignon Blanc 2016 Santa Barbara...
...the US and trend-conscious producers have been seeking out the coolest (in both senses) California wine regions where it’s grown — from the Sonoma Coast in the north to Sta Rita Hills down south in Santa Barbara...
...Robinson, big gangster star of Warner Bros in the 1930s, plays a mid-life-crisis dupe who (I can hardly blame him) falls for shockingly gorgeous, morality-free Joan Bennett....
...Broc’s portfolio, for instance, includes a Solano County Zinfandel, Cabernet Franc from the delightfully named Happy Canyon appellation way south in Santa Barbara County, and a white Rhône blend from a vineyard...
...Etienne de Montille of Domaine de Montille has gone two better, with projects in both Santa Barbara and the cool, northern island of Hokkaido in Japan....
...Per Wehn Santa Barbara, CA, US...
...Sebastian Robinson Glasgow, UK Letter in response to this letter: A serf was tied to the land and could be sold with it / From Per Wehn, Santa Barbara, CA, US...
...Earlier this year, wildfires reached California’s most extensive vineyard, Bien Nacido in Santa Maria Valley, north of Santa Barbara....
...Whites •Clos des Papes 2009 Châteauneuf-du-Pape •Ch La Nerthe 2002 Châteauneuf-du-Pape •Dom de Beaurenard 1986 Châteauneuf-du-Pape (magnum) •Au Bon Climat Chardonnay 2014 Santa Barbara Reds •Dom Fourrier...
...“Dystopian” or “apocalyptic” doesn’t begin to capture the rich, complex concerns of writers such as Annie Proulx, Barbara Kingsolver, Margaret Atwood or Paul Kingsnorth....
...Her most well-known west coast property is the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in California, where she lived during the winter while her husband was director of the Henry E Huntington Library in San Marino...
...Other 2018 titles on the subject include Hearts and Minds by Jane Robinson (Doubleday, January) and Rachel Holmes’s life of Sylvia Pankhurst (Bloomsbury, September)....
...“We knew we had to do something spectacular to compete in the dynamic scene that is London,” says Polly Robinson Gaer, who will be running Ropac’s UK space....
...In southern California, anti-wine sentiment is not confined to Santa Barbara....
...In Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace (2012), meanwhile, a marriage begins to come undone when its leading character reveals details of her infidelity while talking aloud in a fever....
...James Lovegrove Picture books A White Butterfly, by Laurie Cohen and Barbara Ortelli, Minedition, RRP£10.99/$12.99 This board book explores colours and their associations....
...His mother Barbara designed a ballet dancer motif that until recently could still be seen in older stores. Mr Ashley himself is press-shy....
...Tasting notes on Purple Pages of JancisRobinson.com Stockists from winesearcher.com ‘American Wine: The Ultimate Companion to the Wines and Wineries of the USA’ by Jancis Robinson and Linda Murphy is published...
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