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...“I believe if you can do that in any industry in China, you will get unrivalled support.” In the Sichuan mountains, the impact of local ingredients is for now in its early stages....
...We had been sitting at an oak table, drinking an astonishing Montrachet and looking out through picture windows at the river where it tips over a waterfall and froths into a chasm....
...In Florence I admired a different type of oak, the cork oak in its botanical garden....
...Drink or keep, for decades. £35 Berry Bros & Rudd Danbury Ridge Chardonnay 2021 England (13.5%)All I’ll say is that you have to taste this Essex game-changer.£39 Padstow Wine Co, £40, Swig Kumeu River,...
...oak casks....
...A monstrous head floats on a river, a boat emerges from its ear, a fish spews tumbling figures from its stomach, babies and caged animals set sail....
...It stops at a height of about 5ft and I learnt that, genetically, it is a spin-off from Quercus trojana, the Trojan oak....
..., salt marshes, and holm oak forests....
...Other plants with allegorical value fill our park – oak trees, cypresses, as well as Rome’s symbol, the pine, Pinus pinea....
...If I look at highways, you’ve got the coming of the Lower Thames Crossing [a proposed road crossing of the river linking Kent and Essex],” said Quinn....
...But I couldn’t resist recommending seven wines from that current hotbed of value, Bordeaux, too. I would always recommend buying by the case to reduce bottle prices substantially....
...from small river crabs....
...Converted from a Belle Époque mansion and former distillery, it is surrounded by 4.5 hectares of grounds and newly planted gardens (give them time, and they should be glorious), alongside which flows the River...
...“I think we will get bigger in this kind of environment. I think those firms that have gotten a lot bigger in credit and mezzanine credit could live to regret that.”...
...My eyes trace a line of standing deadwood along the river: a trail of linear disease. To raise my spirits, I look up....
...Houses of honey-coloured stone clung to the edge of the Great Rift Valley, which fell away through woodlands of oak and juniper to the plains bordering the Dead Sea....
...“I felt it was secondary to fine art, but knew in my heart it was good work.” Precise, intricate, romantic, fantastical and story-filled, her designs were inspired by plants along the river....
...“I remember going into the garden, standing by the river and seeing a kingfisher fly past,” she says. “It had this impossibly beautiful, wonderfully wild feeling.”...
...Towards the end of the last century there was massive, some would say opportunistic, investment in this high-altitude region, situated on the banks of the river in north-west Spain that becomes the Douro...
...But also via 12 “atmospheric rivers” in Southern California that brought every last thing to a halt last spring....
...Eventually, an estate agent called mum to say that he had found a small terrace across the river that they might be able to afford....
...For all its ugliness, is that what tourism strives for too, I wondered?...
...One morning in July, I join him in his laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens....
...Mischief bubbled away below the surface: “It isn’t that I have a basic urge to say ‘fuck’ every five minutes, but I’m conscious of a faint resentment that I couldn’t if I wanted to . . . ” His evident ease...
...Druids practised rituals in oak groves, ancient kings wore crowns of oak leaves and the tree is a national symbol of strength....
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