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...And the location is easy walking distance to all the New ‘Bu bells, whistles and attractions. malibubeachinn.com, from $660 Old-school ranching in the Santa Ynez Valley Working-ranch stays tend to be more...
...Stay in SoCal’s “other” wine country The Santa Ynez Valley is still, despite a star turn many years ago in the Alexander Payne-directed film Sideways, a relatively off-the-radar destination for most people...
.... £16.99 Majestic Enrique Foster, Finca Los Altepes 2015 Uco Valley (14%)Good price for a fully mature Argentine Malbec....
...Both The Inn and The Ranch sit in genuine oases that give out to the sublime, terrifying beauty of Death Valley....
...Last month, more than 300 leading Hollywood stars, including Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep, wrote to SAG-AFTRA leadership supporting possible strike action....
...The first comparative tasting was organised by the Napa Valley Vintners....
.... £14.25 Stone Vine & Sun Wente Vineyards, Beyer Ranch Zinfandel 2020 California 14%Lots of fun and no exaggeration, with the sweet spice of the American oak.£14.95 The Wine Society LFE Marea Syrah 2020...
...Aspen Valley Ranch, a collection of 12 residences, has been designed by two of Colorado’s longtime leading architecture firms, Michael Fuller Architects and Poss Architecture....
...Seen from the mountainside, the dunes look like an alien landscape; the desert planet Tatooine in Star Wars....
...The second, McEvoy Ranch, is 40 or so miles away in the rolling hills of Petaluma, noted for its exceptional olive oils....
...“Chinese entrepreneurs will bet the ranch to survive for the long term. They sacrifice everything.”...
...I was given Moon, a well-behaved former ranch horse whose only fault was to stop to rub her belly on the desert sagebrush....
...“I thought, if we could find a ranch that is doing things the right way, and see who they send their product to, that would be a start....
...A couple of months ago, for the second year, Pizzinini hosted cult American fitness outfit The Ranch Malibu at Rosa Alpina for five consecutive seven-day retreats....
...Once the sheep were gone, and with them 600km of fencing, herds of guanaco – related to the llama – returned to the valley....
...There are farms like Frank Reese’s Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch in Kansas raising old breeds such as Narragansett, Bourbon Red and White Holland (named for the plumage, not the meat)....
...In Paradise Valley, overlooking the Sonora Desert, Five Star Development is building The Palmeraie — a $2bn resort where Ritz-Carlton will run a 215-room hotel, 81 villas (prices range from $1m to $5m and...
...The nearby Iverson Movie Ranch is reported to be the most-filmed location in cinema history....
...He and his American wife Carrie had built a 12-bedroom Spanish-colonial-style ranch in Uruguay (a country they had “fallen in love with”, says a blog post on the Vik Retreats website, on a visit “to introduce...
...This was the sound of the Ice Age as it shaped the world, carving valleys, moulding hills....
...Ms Fowler never graduated from high school, instead working as a babysitter and ranch hand, and teaching herself in the local library....
...her husband bought a ranch in the area....
...Soon it was dark; the stars burned sequin-bright and the salt-whiteness of the landscape by the roadside looked like snow. From the car window, Pamela pointed out Venus, the brightest star....
...How much would you pay to have shooting stars fly across the sky on your wedding day?...
...All that space, plus Montana’s boundless ranches, appeals to movie stars and billionaire businessmen seeking seclusion, from actors Michael Keaton and Dennis Quaid to Google chairman Eric Schmidt....
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