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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...
...Their gentle croaking (a real-life meditation-app chorus) adds to the calm at this guesthouse, which is set amid twisted cork and slender eucalyptus trees that scent the air with their woody, minty tang....
...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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...It’s fresh, woody and full of character.” £80 for 50ml...
...The survivors find themselves on a desert island, Robinson Crusoe style....
...Dr Barbara Sturm’s is one of the best vitamin C formulations on the market....
...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....
...I’ve always been fascinated by English artists either from Cornwall or who made their home there – Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Terry Frost. Wallis was self-taught and his style is very simplistic....
...One prick and suddenly they’re the Jancis Robinson of jabs. “Ah, yes, this is definitely the Oxford vaccine, you can smell the notes of common cold for chimpanzees....
...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....
...Investing in black founders and unconscious bias training can shake up an industry that has failed to act, writes Richard Robinson, chief executive of Robin AI....
...Either way, the two weepy conversations made me feel like the Barbara Walters of old, white billionaires. Your feedback We’d love to hear from you....
...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....
...The woody pentatonic melodies are pleasant, the cross-stitch rhythms well-worked and the unison stabs formidable....
...The favourites were generally high in flavours described as “fermented bean curd”, “hawthorn” or “woody”....
...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....
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