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...Bordeaux, in an interview....
...Exceptional wines from small estates not found on many lists Not so good for: A clandestine meeting FYI: Head sommelier Jules Bensacq has worked alongside some of the greats of French viticulture in Bordeaux...
...That isn’t Bordeaux. No western city of comparable heft is weirder or more random than LA. Not Paris: too much Cartesian order....
...What This six-bedroom, seven-bathroom country house has a library, outbuildings, bicycle garage, carport and swimming pool....
...US forces later discovered architectural renderings in his private library, and a model was in his bunker complex when he killed himself....
...Walk into the library, with its shelves of hardcover novels and histories and jumble of antiques, nothing too artfully arranged, and you feel just that....
...I’d cite San Sebastián, Bordeaux, Lyon and Toulouse, Maastricht and Reggio Emilia. But Europe’s most liveable city is Barcelona....
...One thing is clear: it has a strong and distinctive personality that seems to blend pretty well with the principal Bordeaux red wine varieties Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot....
...The colours that run through all the rooms are matched to the terroir outside: a vivid green velvet in the drawing room, almost as bright as the vines, and a claret red in the library bar upstairs....
...Other examples include: Grand Parc, Bordeaux (Lacaton & Vassal and Frédéric Druot) A colossal 1960s housing block, recently transformed....
...Philippe Lespy, a former vineyard manager of Bordeaux first growth Ch Mouton-Rothschild and now chief winemaker for the Georgian Wines and Spirits Company (GWS), says: “People have a sympathy for Georgia...
...Healthcare Vaccines Luxury & Brands Business of Luxury The Business of African Luxury The Business of Rum The Business of Tequila The Business of Whisky Buying & Investing in Wine FT Wine FT Wine: Bordeaux...
...Euro-gardening used to conjure up images of red salvias on roundabouts and floral bedding spelling Bienvenue à Bordeaux....
...The Bordeaux wine festival (bordeaux-wine-festival.com) takes place June 23-26. See also: bordeaux-tourisme.com Photograph: Casson Mann-ANAKA...
...and Bordeaux, both of which have international airports....
...Some of his leather-bound books remain on the shelves of the former library-bureau, now the dining room....
...The main house has 850 sq metres of living space, with seven bedrooms, a library, a study, a gym and a pool....
...Many wine lovers may be surprised to discover that it was only in this century that the two red Bordeaux grapes overtook Airén, the white wine and brandy grape that was until very recently Spain’s most-planted...
...A collection of privately held artefacts by the National Library unleashed a flood of letters, uniforms and other mementos. “People have emptied the loft,” says Prof Prost....
...Horace: Poems, edited by Paul Quarrie, Everyman’s Library, RRP£9.99 Everyman’s elegant “Pocket Poet” series includes some surprising delights....
...“You have to have a track record and back library. You don’t know whether any wine is brilliant or not for 20 or 30 years. It is a risky policy.”...
...“I was sent to France, on my own,” to a family in Paris and Arcachon, that lovely Atlantic seaside town south of Bordeaux....
...He had kept, maybe for decades, some special heavy-duty cardboard cases in which venerable Bordeaux and port could be transported lying on its side....
...The garden’s library links in with a fine exhibition, curated by the Monet expert Paul Tucker....
...Now fully restored, the house has a magnificent entrance hall, a library and a large living and dining room with views over the terrace and formal parterre garden....
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