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...What A 300ha estate in the Chianti region, centred on a 17th-century villa....
...Cliffside villa, Howth, County Dublin, €5mn Where On Howth Head, a peninsula north-east of central Dublin. The city’s international airport is 25-30 minutes away by car....
...Some of the bank-ish feel is still intact in the lavish entrance hall, which during our stay was constantly abuzz with bellboys wheeling piles of luxury luggage to the lift, and guests drinking sherry and...
...The next morning was warm, so I did as the locals do and headed up to Parc du Thabor, a stunning open space with impressive Belle Époque villas and its own honey-stone orangery....
...Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing...
...The city’s top-of-the-range properties also offer refreshing sea breezes, as at this three-bedroom villa overlooking Killiney Bay in Dalkey (€3.9m, through Sherry Fitzgerald, sherryfitz.ie)....
...I have invited guests to a villa in the back-country of the craggy bit of Provence. It is somewhere with a charming hyphenated name like La Garde-Freinet....
...Details Tom Robbins was a guest of Niehku Mountain Villa and the Swedish Lapland Visitors Board....
...Yet by the end of the year, many of the country’s largest investors will have set up shop in the villa-style office buildings that have sprung up on the site known as Beijing Fund Town....
...Despite its unofficial status as capital of the Costa del Sol, Málaga itself was mostly bypassed by tourists, who headed from the airport directly to the villas and beaches of Marbella and Fuengirola....
...Some of us drink sherry. I like the wine from the vineyard planted 25 years ago by George’s father – a young, cloudy white, without the whiff of a sulphite....
...My favourite cocktail is the Baltimore Sour, made with rye whiskey, American whiskey, Pedro Ximenez sherry and fresh lemon juice....
...Then came a sherry fish and a second, and more. My count was still zero — but dinner was secure....
...Please have a glass of sherry or wine, and smoked salmon,” she invites, brightly....
...An address listed for Mr Yang in Shenyang leads to an exclusive compound of villas named “Shangri-La”, where several buildings are labelled with Huishan’s name....
...Some of them, such as Phil Gregory of Vena Cava, have settled in the valley and developed their own wineries together with, in the case of the Gregorys, a boutique hotel, La Villa del Valle, a celebrated...
...La Venencia serves only sherry (five kinds) and a tiny selection of low-cost tapas such as eggs, chorizo, cheese or anchovies....
...An early stint as a bellboy at the hotel Villa Soro, giving bewildered guests informal advice on the city’s best pintxo bars, told Warren there was a gap in the market....
...This is the new, official diffusion line, and very delicious it already is too. 13.5% £14.99 for 37.5cl Averys Grati, Villa di Monte Vin Santo 1995 Chianti Rufina This may not be the very finest Vin Santo...
...Trujillo Villas Espana offers the five-person Villa Martires from £4,500 per week, the six-person Garden Cottage from £1,950, and two-person Artist’s Studio from £495....
...At La Carboná , once a sherry bodega, husband and wife Javier and Ana Garcia proudly serve what their talented son, Javier, is cooking....
...He moved to a villa in the south-west London suburb of Balham – Dakers cunningly reminds us that the house purchased by Ruskin’s sherry merchant father in Herne Hill had formerly been owned by a draper,...
...Sir David Tang offers his idiosyncratic advice to readers I once saw you in New York outside Harry Cipriani at the Sherry-Netherland smoking a good cigar....
...Tunisia and Iran, not to be outdone on controversy, contributed respectively Buried Secrets, about three female servants getting their own back on the villa-owning classes (North-Africanising Jean Genet’...
...Tangy and exciting. 13.5% £20.99 for 37.5cl Bibendum Wine Villa di Monte 1990 Vin Santo del Chianti Rufina Sappy wine that is not that sweet (serve with cheese?)...
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