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Sipping  Cabernet Sauvignon With Sue Hodder

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The estate’s history began with Scottish pioneer John Riddoch, who founded the estate in 1891, planted vineyards, and built and completed the estate’s famous stone, three-gabled winery in 1896, called Chateau Comaum. Although there were no wine vineyards as far as the eye could see, Sue always felt a connection to the land.

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A Hidden Gem

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Known as Toscana to Italians, this beautiful wine region with its rolling hills, medieval castles, ancient roads, olive trees, and wine vineyards is renowned for its Sangiovese-based red wines. Almost two-thirds of the vineyards in Tuscany are planted with Sangiovese. million bottles. They also breed pigs and calves.

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Earth Day, Living With The land

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It is essential to do our part all year long and to move toward a more sustainable environment and a healthy future for the earth. Globally, more wineries than ever before are contributing their efforts to maintain sustainable practices in the vineyard and wine production. Conserving Biodiversity in the vineyards 4.

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The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

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The titular Babette flees violence in France to work for two pious sisters in 19th-century Denmark, whose bland diet of bread soup keeps them just sustained enough, but never tipping into gluttony. .) — AM Babette’s Feast (1987) Based on a 1958 short story by Isak Dinesen, Babette’s Feast is the archetypal tale of cooking-as-art.

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An Eater’s Guide to Visiting (and Drinking) Champagne 

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In 2011, Anselme Selosse, the legendary winemaker who runs the Domaine Jacques Selosse with his wife Corinne, opened one of the first bistronomy-focused hotel-restaurants in the heart of the vines, Les Avisés (see the lodging and dining section below). The house is best known for the Clos des Goisses, a 13.5-acre