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...To find out I have been on a fact-finding mission, helped by local Euboeans....
...Surprisingly refreshing. £16.99 Majestic Enrique Foster, Finca Los Altepes 2015 Uco Valley (14%)Good price for a fully mature Argentine Malbec....
...The accompanying Founding Collection depicts the regal oak leaf, sinuous fern, cherry blossom, buttercup and cobnut....
...I ask him how one produces oak extract without alcohol. “That I’ll never tell,” he grins....
...He is facing a re-election contest in May when mayoral elections will also take place in Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Tees Valley and London....
...A trail system runs through it, used in the 18th century by the Franciscan monks who founded California’s famous missions....
...Oak beams, he says, are tricky to work with when still “green” with sap, as the wood twists and shrinks....
...There were also some wines that offered no refreshment whatsoever, with such fruit as there was cloaked in a sort of sickly oil slick of strangely flavoured oak....
...Its interiors, cool and tranquil, are crafted in Douglas fir, and the floors are waxed oak planks; pools of sunlight fall on worn Oriental carpets and oak library chairs stand alongside leather sofas....
...Its significance was only recognised after the discovery of a similar skull eight years later in Germany’s Neander Valley....
...A few years later, after her son had moved on to junior high, Ray returned to tour the program, nestled in a wing of River Oaks Elementary School, west of downtown Houston....
...Raymond Freeman, Thousand Oaks, CA, US...
...That situation was recently remedied when we spent a long weekend touring the contiguous wine valleys, about an hour’s drive north of San Francisco....
...The ugly yellow building, originally built for the Bulgarian Mission, which I’ve been calling “embassy”, is actually a chancery....
...As a result, the home of Hollywood, Silicon Valley and America’s biggest agricultural crop has edged closer to fiscal meltdown....
...Earlier that day, we went on a “field trip” to North Fair Oaks, an unincorporated area of San Mateo County mid-way between San Francisco and Silicon Valley where many newly arrived immigrants make their...
...“One bad wine in the valley is bad for every winery in the valley,” he once said. “One good wine in the valley is good for everyone.”...
...Movies are projected on to the back wall of the enormous terrace at this hip Mission District restaurant which Pirie runs with her partner John Clark....
...“Bernal has a feel that’s a little edgier,” says Ben Phillips, a speechwriter at Hewlett-Packard, who moved to the neighbourhood nine years ago from nearby Noe Valley....
...Valley ■Mission Hill Oculus 2004, VQA Okanagan Valley ■Le Clos Jordanne, Le Clos Jordanne Vineyard Pinot Noir 2004, VQA Niagara Peninsula ■Lailey Vineyards, Canadian Oak Cabernet Franc 2002, VQA Niagara...
...With room for up to 300, it is a far cry from the desolation of downtown, where the mission maintains a 40-family shelter....
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