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...Since 2010, Levett has also owned local restaurant L’Amandier de Mougins, where the Salon Picasso commemorates the Spanish artist who spent the final years of his life in Notre-Dame-de-Vie, his villa outside...
...Bouchard Père & Fils is the largest landholder on the Côte d’Or and was bought in 2022 by Artémis Domaines as part of a merger with Maisons & Domaines Henriot....
...Buy a case and save some for a while.£36 The Wine Society L’Aurage 2018 Castillon (15%)From the same stable as Le Tertre Roteboeuf and in the same exuberant, late-picked style....
...Departing L’Hôtel, our boutique base camp in the crenellated shadow of the city’s Château des ducs de Bretagne, we located the distinctive orange-and-blue markings of La Vélodyssée easily enough and quickly...
...I was born in the Republic of the Congo, in La Côte Sauvage, where my father worked in forestry. I lived there for 15 years, and it was such a carefree, insouciant existence....
...In 2022, McKillen was awarded L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for his contribution to the country’s culture....
.... ★★★★★ Brutality also infuses Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new Così fan tutte, which opened the night before Wozzeck in Aix’s beautiful Théâtre de l’Archevêché; but by the time the performance was interrupted...
...I’ve come close to here before, when visiting St Tropez, but still, the southernmost tip of the Côte d’Azur has always remained elusive, candyfloss cliffs fading into clouds....
...I’ve escaped the winter gloom for a weekend on the Côte d’Azur during Menton’s Fête du Citron, a celebration of all things citrus held every February....
...A couple of weeks before my Côte d’Azur jaunt, I tried the Manta5 water bike, which has a steering foil in place of a front wheel as well as a larger one at the back....
...L’Artisane Dakar metal single earring, £35. Sandals, model’s own Angel wears Off-White cotton trousers, POA....
...If you want to see some art, the Musée de l’Annonciade puts on great exhibitions. One thing that everybody in St Tropez does though is go to the local markets....
...Bros Begude, Esprit Pinot Noir 2021 Haute Vallée de l’Aude 13%Really convincing special selection from the hills of Limoux....
...Why are Côte de Nuits reds routinely more expensive than their counterparts from the Côte de Beaune? Is it a hangover from the time when wines were admired for their concentration?...
...views of town squares in “Paysage de Cagnes avec arbre” and ‘L’Arbre de Vence”....
...I work in pen and ink and can’t resist buying new quills in interesting colours or strange materials, often from L Cornelissen & Son in London. I’m also given lots by friends, which is lovely....
...She was one of the first women to be accepted into the cinematography section of L’École Technique de Cinématographie et de Photographie in Paris but, after graduating in 1966, she found jobs as a cinematographer...
...Offering good value compared to the neighbouring Côte d’Azur, the region also benefits from recent tax changes working in favour of second-home owners....
...Kratzer uses the stage of the Théâtre de l’Archevêché to maximum effect, with Rainer Sellmaier’s set evolving from refugee camp and government headquarters to a beachfront for the denouement....
...Van der Velden’s designs come to life at an L-shaped bench, with the typical half-moon cut into it enabling the jeweller to work up close. A tool display board hangs above it....
...Something like Le Chambertin can now be a bit too much, whereas an outlying cooler area such as the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, the hills behind the Côte d’Or, have a much longer ripening period and yet in warmer...
...Top marks go to The River Café’s structured 2018 Roma Rosso Principe Pallavicini, Core’s harmonious 2020 Domaine du Coulet Côtes du Rhône “Petit Ours” and Les 110 Taillevent’s 2016 François Villard “L’Appel...
...The food is traditional, with classic dishes such as roast chicken and côte de boeuf with frites, and it has a fantastic wine cellar....
...Porters wearing white gloves and blue suits with gold braiding whisk our suitcases through Paris’s Gare de L’Est....
...The L-shaped corner suite has a wraparound terrace and an expanse of twinkling, rippling blue which means that, for my two nights, I barely notice the interior, I just can’t stop looking out....
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