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...Of almost 100 producers this year, there were just four from Ribera del Duero — Dominio del Águila, Bendito Destino, Goyo Garcia and Valdaya — and only nine from Rioja: Akutain, Alonso & Pedrajo Viticultores...
...; and Petit Verdot from the top Spanish vineyard Dehesa del Carrizal (“intense… the salt and pepper”)....
...And he eschewed fame: I remember in the ’70s and ’80s, when he worked for various important clients at the Salone del Mobile, his rule was this: prepare all the projects, be ready for the opening and then...
...After 1898, when Spain lost its colonies of Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico in a war with the US still remembered as “the Disaster”, the author Ramón del Valle-Inclán declared bitterly, “Spain is a...
...Mostoitaliano Via Valle di Perna 315, 00128 Rome USP: As local a beer as you’ll find, made exclusively from Italian ingredients One to try: The three-grain, Belgian-inspired Triplo Mosto (9 per cent)...
....£11 Tesco Salvaje del Moncayo, La Garnacha 2019 Ribera del Queiles 14%Old Grenache vines at 810m deliver sweet, transparent pleasure. £11.49 Majestic Château Laulan 2018 Francs Côtes de Bordeaux 14% Rich...
...The star product around these parts is the raw-milk goat’s cheese made by Luís Martell and Lucía Torres at Era del Cardón, one of no less than 130 artisan queserías on the island....
...Isola del Giglio is next on our itinerary....
...The idea was to set up a tablao with a more modern feel, says co-founder Ernesto Díaz, a Mexican who has lived in Spain for 30 years....
...It revisits the Del Valle family: the Chilean dynasty from The House of the Spirits, whose kinsfolk starred again in Daughter of Fortune (1999) and Portrait in Sepia (2000)....
...Orbia’s billionaire patriarch, 82-year-old Antonio del Valle, made his name in banking before president José López Portillo nationalised the sector in 1982....
...“Clearly Amlo will keep on being Amlo, and this is something businesses and society have to learn to live with — we’re not going to change him,” said Antonio del Valle, head of the Mexican Business Council...
...The state ombudsman’s office has confirmed 24 deaths in the week’s protests, 17 of them in Valle del Cauca, the southwesterly province of the country of which Cali is the capital....
...While there have been deaths across the country, it is striking how many have occurred in Cali, a city of 2.3m people in the restive south-west of the country, and the surrounding region of Valle del Cauca...
...She addressed her male under-secretary, Ernesto Acevedo, by the honorific “Doctor”, even though both officials have PhDs....
...Diego del Valle Ríos, editor-in-chief of the Mexico City-based contemporary art magazine Terremoto, shines a light on how artists operate within the city’s ecosystem....
...This MOU was later unilaterally terminated by Mr del Valle.”...
...Keep walking to the Piazza del Popolo, where you must visit the church of Santa Maria del Popolo....
...Valle, Oaxaca and San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas....
...But Mr Martínez-Valle, who joined Grupo Kaluz, Orbia’s holding company, in 2010 after cold-calling owner Antonio del Valle (no relation) to discuss his quest for “the most relevant social change platform...
...Another was Antonio del Valle, the Mexican billionaire who, along with other Mexican investors, launched legal proceedings in the months after the failure....
...Ernesto Cortés, head of museums in Puebla, said the change was spurred by the arrival of a new administration with a different optic....
...Antonio del Valle, president of the Mexican Business Council, told me recently that despite corporate goodwill, “there are no clear projects to invest in” — only grand plans, not yet detailed projects....
...For now, Rocío del Valle Maneiro, the Maduro government’s ambassador to the UK, appears to hold the cards....
...Quote of the week “This is not about me, but about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship” — José Antonio del Valle, a Mexican businessman on his dispute with Coca-Cola over a drink that aims to boost brain...
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