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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...
...Great location, good (if trad-skewing) design, food and service — and easy proximity to the retail pleasures of Via del Corso and Via del Babuino Not so good for: The hipster on the hunt for a serious sui...
...; 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...
...Far from looking out on rolling fields, 2 Via del Vantaggio is now in the heart of the city, a stone’s throw from Piazza del Popolo and a short walk from Piazza di Spagna....
...While Italy sweltered under a heatwave last week, Roberto Gelfi’s herd of cows enjoyed the cool privileges of being milk suppliers for Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese....
...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...
...Website; Directions Father-and-son team Roberto and Giovanni Faenza founded Ritual Lab in 2012 as a home for the eccentric and experimental....
...There are moments of tasteful whimsy that recall the hotel’s history, such as the frescoes he commissioned the Rome-based artist Roberto Ruspoli to paint directly on the lobby’s walls and ceiling: line-drawn...
....£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...
...These investments are unlikely to pave the way to broader consolidation of brands, says Citi’s head of global luxury Roberto Costa....
...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....
...Nigella Lawson – before being converted to the dish by Italian cook Anna del Conte – admits snobbishly calling the dessert the “Black Forest Gateau of the 1990s”....
...“People are disenchanted and angry,” said Roberto D’Alimonte, a political-science professor at Rome’s Luiss University....
...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)....
...We meet this flamboyant character at the exhibition’s second venue, the 13th-century Museo Nazionale del Bargello’s vast hall....
...He set off on a series of driving trips around the coast road and into the wild interior with his Sicilian friend, the producer Roberto Romano....
...The percussion, from Roberto “Tato” Vizcaino Jr and his father Roberto Vizcaino Guillot, mainstay of Chucho Valdés’s 1990s band, is tumbling and hypnotic, and the chanting from rumba vocalist Pedro “Tata...
...Around this point, Michele’s father Roberto Colaninno bought the business and within three years Vespa was back from the brink....
...Then there’s Roberto Contaldo and his horse-drawn ploughing business, much sought after by the island’s cohort of wealthy nouveaux paysans....
...The shock of verité in every scene and shot of the city was only heightened by the ordinary Romans gathered by director Roberto Rossellini as his cast....
...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 last of the truly stylish, late modern towers is the Neguri Gane (designed by Roberto Pérez-Guerras and Julio Pérez Gegundez)....
...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....
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