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...We planted more vines at the back to grow and cover it,” Hedwig answers, deadpan. The wall, of course, is the wall surrounding Auschwitz, the death factory that we never see into....
...That afternoon we checked in to our lodgings in Monforte d’Alba and were blessed by weather that even the locals said was exceptional: crisp sunlight on undulating Langhe hillsides golden with autumnal vines...
...Vines have had to compete with developers to stay in the ground. Australian winemaker Peter Barry of Jim Barry Wines in Clare Valley sipped his first Assyrtiko over a lunch on the island in 2006....
...Satirist Barry Humphries is married to Matthew’s sister. Mine and Maro’s mothers knew each other too; mine the Florentine art historian Luisa Vertova, hers a “professional beauty” (Maro’s words)....
...Barry and I are eating the best croquetas I’ve ever had at Glass and Vine, a restaurant nestled in Peacock Park in Coconut Grove, a tony, boutique-filled neighbourhood....
...That year, Rice was working for family friend Barry Phillips at his particularly wine-focused White Horse Inn and restaurant in Sussex....
...The South Australian wine producer Peter Barry of Jim Barry was so impressed by the wines he tasted on holiday on Santorini that he was prepared to drag Assyrtiko cuttings through the prolonged Australian...
...Facebook reminds me of nothing so much as kudzu, an indomitable creeping vine which can be chopped, mowed, sprayed with herbicide or even set on fire, and yet will keep growing, suffocating everything to...
...Barry Parkin, head of procurement and sustainability at Mars, says companies must change the way they buy commodities. In fact, he goes so far as to declare the age of commodities dead....
...It sounds silly, but it’s true: being called Julian Casablancas and Fab Moretti and Nick Valensi is so much better for a rock star than being Barry Jones....
...Vanilla pods grow from tropical vines, and it takes about three years for a plant to mature and produce beans....
...Her unsentimental view of human nature can also be seen in the rigorous standalones written under the nom-de-plume Barbara Vine....
...Assyrtiko is so obviously a great Greek grape variety that Peter Barry of Jim Barry Wines has dragged it through the arduous Australian quarantine system to grow it in Clare Valley....
...In 1986 the author decided to create another persona for her writing; as Barbara Vine, her books were to confront uncomfortable issues even more directly....
...writing career has taken off on surprising tangents: biography (a book on Anthony Blunt), history (The Three Emperors), then a jump into ripping yarn territory with the deliriously enjoyable The Strangler Vine...
...Tasting notes on JancisRobinson.com ——————————————- Some Impressive Dry Whites Australia ● Jim Barry, The Lodge Hill Dry Riesling 2013, Clare Valley, £9.99, Co-op, Majestic, Tesco ● Jim Barry, The Florita...
...While on holiday on the Greek island of Santorini in 2007, Peter Barry of Jim Barry Wines was struck, as well he might be, by the quality of wine produced by the indigenous Assyrtiko grape and reckoned that...
...Barry Forshaw ——————————————- YOUNG ADULT Spook’s: A New Darkness, by Joseph Delaney, Bodley Head, RRP£12.99 The spook is dead, long live the spook!...
...Harriet Vine, co-founder, Tatty Devine, the jewellery company. Stephen Webster, jewellery entrepreneur. Kresse Wesling, entrepreneur. JJ Williams, former rugby player....
...Oakley is close to “Barry” and the book sometimes shades into hagiography, but that’s part of the price for the wonderful access....
...Though they never really troubled the mainstream charts, they were held in high esteem both at the time and since by rock cognoscenti, and have been described by Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine as “the most criminally...
...Kevin and Diana, even with their hands full elsewhere, decided soon after arriving to plant a trial quarter-acre of vines the same year the health study began....
...A Provençal villa surrounded by vines – the Var produces Côtes de Provence reds, whites and rosés – can be yours for €4m....
...Richard Edds at local estate agency Leisure and Land is selling a wine estate chateau with 42 acres under vine near Carcassone for €3.5m....
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