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...The handful of rooms and apartments are elegant-trad, clean-lined and pretty....
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...In Sonoma, he was well and truly bitten by the wine bug and went on to work at Tyrrell’s in Australia’s Hunter Valley as well as in South Africa and the Rhône....
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...I found it reasonably easy to tell the (extremely good) 2017 Kutch Sonoma Coast Chardonnay from the earthier 2017 Rapet Corton-Charlemagne....
...Over the past three decades mom-and-pop vineyards have sprung up, giving it the feel of Napa or Sonoma back in the day....
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...Brosnan’s father grew up in Bay Ridge, so moving to Brooklyn would be a way to “move backwards” in time and connect with his family history....
...Her husband booked us a night at a hotel three hours north of the city, so we planned a road trip stopping at Sea Ranch in Sonoma County....
...Gravante grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the son of a local real estate lawyer who prepared taxes for, among others, convicted mafia hitman Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano....
...Pristine beaches, excellent hiking, and celebrated vineyards in Red Hill and Main Ridge add to the appeal....
...I have deliberately excluded producers whose Chardonnays are more obviously influenced by Pacific fogs, such as those in cooler parts of Sonoma Coast and Santa Barbara....
...Sinuous paths bear curved lines picked out in stones, like the ridges of ammonites....
...It’s even further north than the fashionable newish vineyards of Sonoma Coast, just one coastal ridge away....
...In terms of appellations, Napa, Sonoma and Central Coast no longer have a monopoly....
...It’s carved from Rosso Levanto marble and has elegant angular ridges. Marble has been around for millions of years and this is an object for life....
...Its “walking and wine” trip in the Italian Apennines, for example, explores the hills around the historic towns of Urbino and Gubbio, including a night in the tiny hamlet of Bacciardi, perched on a ridge...
...I continued along the ridge....
...They have made the suburbs more racially and ethnically diverse, and once wide open spaces are now dotted with construction sites for apartment buildings....
...“There are a lot of people who would be very happy with a two-bedroom apartment in a city that they can afford.”...
...Climbing the rolling hills around Constantine in Algeria last July, we paused at the top of a ridge....
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