Hints and tips:
...Filippo and Francesco Mazzei, along with Filippo’s son Giovanni, gave me a tour of the vineyards closest to the smart winery designed by their architect sister, we bumped into Howard, the gamekeeper from Devon...
...Tom Coward, head gardener at Gravetye Manor in West Sussex, the former home of Victorian visionary gardener William Robinson, has overseen the renovation of a breathtaking wisteria-clad pergola....
...I think down in Devon there’s a campaign to have some primaries down there....
...We had Liz Truss in America sitting on a platform with Steve Bannon as he praises Tommy Robinson as a hero and her saying absolutely nothing....
...Gavin Robinson, Democratic Unionist party MP for Belfast East, called the decision “fantastic news for Belfast and Northern Ireland as a whole”....
...Nigel Greening owns the much-admired New Zealand winery Felton Road and has been taking the long view from his base in Devon, south-west England....
...He has made agreements, initially for three years, with the owners of the three vineyards — in Hampshire, Devon and Powys in Wales — whereby he and his associate, vineyard consultant Darcy Gander, helped...
...His first job straight out of Oxford Polytechnic (now Brookes) in the early 1980s was at Gidleigh Park country house hotel in Devon, where the owner Paul Henderson had a passion for wine and a massive cellar...
...Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People by Rick Gekoski, Constable & Robinson, £18.99, 256 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Recommended reds CVNE Crianza 2016 Rioja 13.5% £9.29 Dennhofer of Northumberland, £9.45 Cheers of Wales, £9.99 Majestic, £10 Edencroft of Cheshire, £10.95 Winedirect.co.uk, £12.29 Christopher Piper of Devon...
...‘Laziness does not exist’ by Devon Price Ushering in a new year often includes the uncomfortably familiar task of coming up with a resolution....
...Cowperthwait, Florida; Neal Moister, London; Nicola Lancaster, Cornwall Polymath 1,054: Jim Nicolson, Edinburgh Christmas crossword: Mark Thornber, Durham, England; Andrew House, San Francisco; Jane Robinson...
...That morning, David Robinson, managing director at Suttons Seeds in Paignton, Devon, settled down for his usual Monday ritual of checking the weekend’s sales figures. He got a shock....
...Emma Rice is head winemaker at Hattingley Valley in Hampshire, an extensive wine property owned by Simon Robinson, chair of the generic organisation WineGB....
...Christopher Piper, the Devon wine merchant who also makes Beaujolais, at Château du Pavé in Brouilly, attended the tasting....
...Society Rayas-inspired Garnachas (1998 £500)ALTERNATIVESFrontonio, Supersónico Garnacha 2016 IGP Valdejalón £14.71 winebuyers.com Dani Landi, Uvas de la Ira 2015 Sierra de Gredos £23 Wine & Greene of Devon...
...de Provence, Ste-Victoire, £13.29, Great Western Wine Le Grand Cros 2017 Côtes de Provence, £13.95, Berry Bros & Rudd Ch Puech Haut, Prestige or Tête de Bélier 2017 St-Drézéry, £14.25, Le Vignoble of Devon...
...MUSAR • 1961 £410 a half, Wine Raks, Scotland • 1969 (low fill) £280, The Wine Cru, Scotland • 1970 £449, Hedonism, London • 1980 (low fill) £138, Barber Wines, Devon • 1994 £92.60, Lay & Wheeler (collect...
...Nor was it Rosemoor, the beguilingly beautiful site in Devon. The garden was Hyde Hall, way out in the prairie wheat fields of Essex. Hardly anyone, it seemed, had heard of it....
...Entering a 1968 Sunday Times-sponsored round-the-world race, the Devon family man was underprepared and over-committed....
...extensively throughout Europe, often in the company of her aunt, the novelist Edith Wharton, taking notes in her journal and meeting influential luminaries along the way like Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson...
...For UK climbers looking for a starter kit, Devon-based Climb A Wall offers 1.2m x 1.2m plywood panels for £75, which customers can fit themselves....
...The kudhvas, meanwhile, were fabricated in Devon and Tintagel — whose ruined medieval castle can be reached on foot via a stretch of dramatic coastline in about 45 minutes....
...An unnamed variety of Ranunculus acris, it was a gift from the head gardener at Gravetye Manor, the home of gardening pioneer William Robinson....
...Along with Southwold, Padstow in Cornwall and Salcombe in Devon have registered sharp increases in retail rents....
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