More and more moneyed Americans, from oilmen to bankers and film directors, are pouring funds into new vineyards and wineries. |
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In very weedy vineyards the weeds may also compete with the vines for light. |
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The owner produces it in small quantities and he matures it in earthenware containers rather than in wooden barrels as most vineyards do today. |
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The wilderness of saltbush and scrub has given way to orchards and vineyards, to wheats and rice. |
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On either side of her rose hills covered with vineyards and the gently rotating white sails of the windmills used for crushing grapes. |
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What if you where a winegrower in Barolo, but did not own one of the hotshot vineyards that would make the great wines in great vintages? |
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Each winemaker sees this wine as a personal statement and each blend is a unique melange of the varieties in the vineyards. |
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By this time the region had sprouted quite a few more vineyards and wineries. |
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The foothills are wooded, except in the south, and shelter valleys with vineyards and orchards. |
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Many vineyards are located on valley bottoms underlain by alluvium which can provide deep, free-draining soils of variable grain size. |
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The trials are being replicated in potato and pumpkin fields at The Rodale Institute, and in two other area vineyards. |
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In ancient vineyards all work was done by man, which consisted of ploughing, pruning, trimming, desuckering, layering, and harvesting. |
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As the river twists and sometimes retraces its route, the vineyards are at their steepest on the outer edge of the curve. |
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They will follow the tiny paths over the mountains and through the famous vineyards of Rioja before skirting the cities of Burgos, Leon and Lugo. |
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The skill of the winemaker in these circumstances is to blend all the different regions, vineyards and levels of ripeness into a house style. |
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It is within the Bolgheri appellation, at the heart of which are the Sassacia vineyards. |
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The vineyards of these two appellations were planted with sauvignon blanc after being destroyed in the 19th century by phylloxera. |
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In French vineyards it is an age-old custom to plant a rose bush at the end of a row of vines to give early warning of disease in the crop. |
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Many vineyards planted in low-lying valleys alongside rice fields have high water-tables and a high risk of flooding. |
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The Magyar tribes who arrived here at the end of the 9th century found flourishing vineyards and familiarity with wine-making techniques. |
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The Tarragona wine region consists of 36 vineyards, which produce 400,000 hl of wine annually. |
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It's such a pretty place, and we really enjoy stopping by the various vineyards and tasting the local product. |
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He ripped these vineyards out and planted Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malvasia, and Semillon. |
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The labour input was high, and vineyards on the plains required between 70 and 80 man-days per hectare per year. |
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The mineral elements most likely to be deficient in vineyards are nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, boron, iron, manganese, and magnesium. |
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The sirocco of North Africa can afflict the vineyards of southern Europe, occasionally reaching France. |
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This document has been designed to bestow some dignity on those who toil thanklessly in the vineyards of art. |
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There's a flicker of a smile on his lips, so he probably means a hacienda with vineyards and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. |
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Antonia's family was small but very wealthy and they had at least a hundred servants working in the house and in the vineyards. |
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Santa Barbara is set among rolling hills and vineyards that were beautifully captured in the film Sideways. |
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There are some traditional vineyards where grapes are still trodden by foot. |
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The men were hard at work in the vineyards, were shoeing their horses, or were tending to the cattle. |
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At Benziger vineyards, the goal of biodynamics is to produce wines with a sense of place. |
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Accurate acreage assessment is difficult because so many of the old Italian vineyards were planted with a mixture of different varieties. |
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Bordeaux's classified vineyards are only allowed to grow sauvignon blanc, semillon, muscadelle, ugni blanc, colombard and merlot blanc. |
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The island is beautiful, with vineyards covering the rolling hills and orchards of olives and fruit trees texturing the mountainsides. |
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So-called organic vineyards use mulches of living plants as well as dead material. |
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In Waitakere we celebrate job growth in boatbuilding, vineyards, film making, and our traditional industries. |
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The 3D Robotics Y6 multicopter has been flying over vineyards in Northern California to monitor ripeness. |
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Canadian vineyards are planted on a wide variety of soil types underlain by diverse bedrock geology. |
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An undersupply has made these highly regarded vineyards tantalizing to second careerist refugees from San Francisco. |
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Mellow chestnut forests, vineyards and fertile farmland glow golden in the slanting sunlight and the whole island overflows with harvest plenty. |
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Just north of Angera, along a road edged by smallholdings, vineyards and the occasional rustic villa, is the sleepy village of Ranco. |
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Around the plant stretched miles of vineyards, farms, orchards, and unreclaimed desert. |
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The vineyards lie in the valleys sandwiched between the mountains of western Otago and the hills to the south and east. |
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Wildlife, waterfalls, vineyards, superb cuisine, wonderful shopping in the capital Hobart, a warm welcome and history by the bucketload. |
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Although there are many hundreds of villages that make wine in Burgundy, very few have vineyards with Grand Cru status. |
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Surrounding their dwelling were maize plantations and vineyards, owned by a wealthy landowner. |
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They are all from the same producer, same grape, same region, but different vintages and vineyards. |
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This Sauvignon is hand picked from vineyards practicing sustainable agriculture in Napa. |
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Solomon made mention of how foxes were damaging to vineyards, consuming ripe grapes. |
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The decline of grape vineyards depends on the age of the grape vines and on the variety planted. |
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It is a blend of usually the three best recent vintages, from the best vineyards and the best grapes. |
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Not all of my colleagues travel as much, but I reckon it's essential to visit vineyards and interview winemakers. |
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There always seem to be cherry trees surrounding the best vineyards in Valpolicella. |
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I got off the cart without help for once because everyone was deep in the vineyards harvesting the grapes. |
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Surprisingly, many neighboring vineyards are farming without any irrigation at all. |
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Northern Italy is a vast expanse of vineyards, and much of the wine made there is the sparkler known as spumante. |
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Some vineyards were not even planted in rows, but were haphazardly arranged, like a field of wheat. |
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Rabbits and hares are a universal pest, particularly while vineyards are being established. |
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You can never forget the beautiful landscapes of hills, vineyards, olive groves, almond orchards and endless wheat fields. |
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Coinage was introduced, manor houses, farms and villages were established, olive groves and vineyards were planted. |
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The Spaniards recognized the cacao farms as a form of plantation, comparing them to the vineyards and olive groves of Spain. |
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The disease was first noted in France in 1847, where it soon spread and caused widespread havoc to vineyards and wine quality. |
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Set in a region of seascapes and vineyards, Penola is no stranger to interesting oppositions. |
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Sixty per cent of the wine is made from 400 hectares of vineyards owned by the company. |
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The landscape provides a stark contrast to the more popular south, boasting lush green vegetation, orange groves, and vineyards. |
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The lower region with its more fertile land is home to many market gardens, orchards and vineyards. |
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Chasselas is not widely planted in New World vineyards, which incessantly seek to copy the world's greatest. |
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In the Middle Ages vineyards flourished on this bleak Castilian plateau and cellars were hollowed out of the limestone under the town. |
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The open landscape is harmoniously composed of grain fields, rice paddies, orchards, rape fields and vineyards. |
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We spend a couple of afternoons lazily drifting along the back roads, past clapperboard farmhouses, vineyards and corn-fields. |
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A continuing pressure on French producers is the competition from American and Australian vineyards. |
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The second main viticultural role widely attributed to the monks was their influence on the development of vineyards in the Americas. |
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Moreover, the numerous wineries and vineyards were quite aesthetically pleasing to the eye. |
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Most lyrical of all his interventions there is the restaurant on the edge of the vineyards. |
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The country was dotted with vineyards, each bursting with acres and acres of plump, sweet grapes. |
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They cause damage to orchards, vineyards, melon patches, cornfields, peanut fields, and chicken yards. |
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Over 50 000 hectares of cornfields and vineyards have been completely destroyed, according to experts. |
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Further upstream, the river winds its way through the steep hills and terraced vineyards of the Upper Douro port wine region. |
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The top restaurant in the world was judged to be one serving Gallic food not in France, but among vineyards in Napa Valley, California. |
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Made up largely of family-owned vineyards at the onset of Prohibition, the industry got clobbered by the new legislation. |
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While it is not uncommon for well-known vineyards to charge fees for tastings, the degustations here are free. |
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It was through that and visiting vineyards while travelling with her husband that their love of the grape grew. |
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The river valleys are loaded with date palm groves, vineyards, and sunflower fields. |
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The tramway passed alongside vineyards, an itinerary inciting Simon to expatiate on harvesting grapes. |
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Most of its vineyards lie to the west of that town, on either bank of the dry wash for which it is named in Spanish. |
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They liked Perigord for its warmth and abundant vineyards and found one they considered perfect. |
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If you turn 30 acres of chateau vineyards into 150 acres then you are bringing its reputation into question. |
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The lodges in these vineyards are known as quintas, and some offer wine classes, lunch and tours. |
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Runoff from irrigation and rain is recycled through a series of ponds and wetlands that naturally cleanse it for reuse in vineyards and landscaping. |
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For the third time in 150 years, the vineyards of France were witness to war and the French vignerons and chateaux owners once again set about their wartime tasks. |
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Quality has increased dramatically recently, and folks are hollering about how the vineyards in Otago on the South Island will turn out to be the mother lode. |
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The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed milch cattle of Switzerland. |
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From the vineyards of France to the olive groves of Spain, hundreds of thousands of people will be toasting the fruits of the earth this autumn, and you can join them. |
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The owners of famous vineyards could sell their wines in the lesser vintages because of their fame, but you were stuck with wine you couldn't sell easily. |
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The chateau is surrounded by sweeping mountainsides, and its reddish soils and steep manicured vineyards provide brilliant Chardonnay, silky Cabernet and top quality Syrah. |
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In this taster's estimation, the top Premier Cru vineyards evoke the truest expressions of flavors and aromas that each Burgundian village offers. |
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It was sheer physical pleasure, freewheeling or skimming along with minimum effort through meadows, orchards, vineyards, woods and tiny towns with squares and window boxes. |
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The Canadian Frank Gehry has left his distinctive calling card in the shape of a luxury hotel perched above the rolling vineyards of the noble Marques de Riscal winery. |
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Bourgade is a working wine estate with 54 acres of vineyards. |
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The cathedral-sized plane trees were shading them, too, and they too could enjoy the view out onto rolling vineyards and fields of sweetcorn and sunflowers. |
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The rest of the trip includes the classic Slovene countryside and vineyards, including a town called Ljutomer where they will stay for two nights. |
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Some vineyards affected by copper toxicity in the Bordeaux area are much reduced in vigour, but the problem can be overcome by adding lime to the soil. |
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It was still beautiful, brushed in white with ice crystals wrapping themselves around every branch and twig, but the vineyards and resorts I'd known were gone of course. |
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Over ten days of walking the group will pass through Rioja vineyards, the plains of Navarre, small, traditional villages and lush valleys dotted with red poppies. |
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An ideal climate and vast unreclaimed lands for new vineyards! |
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Away from the town, the walk to the monastery takes one through groves of olives and almonds, and vineyards bearing the sign of Torres, the dominant local wine producer. |
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After France's loss of her colonial empire the merchants of Nantes and Bordeaux sank their capital in the arable land and vineyards of the hinterland. |
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Heliopolis was the ancient name of the ancient city hidden in mountains, the city of neat small palaces among flowers and bushes, marble buildings and arbours in vineyards. |
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Even the arrivistes in California understood the sophistication required for a vigneron, commissioning fine architects to enhance their vineyards with beautiful buildings. |
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The wine world tends to glorify the winemaker when really it takes a team of hard-working people to tend vineyards and make wine. |
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The earliest vineyards were selected to provide a sunny aspect, commonly on a hillside slope, a sufficient depth of soil, and access to water for the roots. |
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Wine from vineyards with saline soils may contain elevated levels of salt. |
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Germans, French and Italians settled in the valleys of Napa and Sonoma and the land which links them, Carneros, and transformed the area into vales of vineyards. |
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It is rich, this island, in fruit and trees of various kinds, and it is suitable for pastures of sheep and cattle, and in some places vineyards grow. |
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Some of the growing regions in Canada offer ideal conditions for producing ice wine, and some of the world's best now come from Canadian vineyards. |
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Romantic images and bucolic country scenes of happy grape pickers, hillside vineyards, and dusty bottles in old cellars are featured in all the brochures. |
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They are made form the sames grapes, sourced from some of the same vineyards, and made by the same winemaker. |
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One day should be spent visiting some of the key vineyards, so I took advantage of the Discovery Pass and idled away two agreeable afternoons visiting Margaux and St Emilion. |
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Although labour has been plentiful and cheap, vineyards are designed wherever possible to permit the passage of tractors for cultivation and treatment purposes. |
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Other traditional sectors like stockbreeding, milk products and vineyards are already singled out as priorities of the financial policy of National Agriculture Fund. |
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The castle stood on the point of a hill and sloping down on all sides were verdant hayfields, olive groves, vegetable gardens, fruit orchards, and vineyards. |
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Brothers and sisters work in the cellars, stockrooms and vineyards. |
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The greensand soil and chalky bedrock are similar to the soil found beneath the vineyards of the Champagne region, and are integral to its flavour. |
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The European serin inhabits wooded and shrubby hillsides, and also utilizes well-vegetated agricultural areas, such as vineyards, orchards, and plantations. |
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It is a region rich in art and Roman and Etruscan history, with a spectacular landscape of rolling green hills and mountains, trees, vineyards and hilltop villages. |
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Rolling farmlands, covered bridges, and vineyards mark the countryside. |
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They will share with us their wealth in livestock and their knowledge of the sheepfolds and pastures as we will share the bounty of the barley field and vineyards. |
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With the demise of this wine style, many Australian vineyards of very old Grenache vines were torn out, for a few shekels of government compensation. |
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Alexander Gilkes has partied with Jay Z in Paris and toured vineyards with the rapper, too. |
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One of the vineyards has annual vegetables intercropped with grapevines. |
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There are also stately homes, farm parks, zoos, museums, craft centres, pixie centre, shire horse centre, vineyards, castles, wildlife parks and other attractions. |
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The film is full of sun-drenched vineyards and the glories of the grape. |
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They owned and tended the best vineyards in Europe and vinum theologium was considered superior to all others. |
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The gardens date back to medieval times when orchards and vineyards extended to the north of the Papal Apostolic Palace. |
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The gently rising hills behind the town feature vineyards and olive groves, overlooking Port Phillip Bay. |
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There are 20 Welsh vineyards producing 100,000 bottles of wine a year in total. |
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Jetboat ride In South Island's Marlborough vineyards we sampled wines at the Villa Maria estate. |
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A favourable climate supports two vineyards, including one of the oldest in the British Isles at Adgestone. |
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We have an engineer who is responsible for the vineyards and an expert oenologist who is responsible for the cellar. |
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Its fields are fertile, its vineyards productive and its forests teem with wild life. |
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In 1876, when phylloxera infiltrated Spain, 80 percent of the vineyards were planted with black grapes. |
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Chapoutier's priceless vineyards on Hermitage are full of life to the point of scruffiness. |
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Add to that German widow round the stowaway Who knew vineyards potboiler And the reason weekend in Yes, a in the southern late spring. |
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In his leisure time, he enjoys vineyards, Australian rules football and cricket. |
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The Romantik Hotel Todini, a 14th century country estate, is located on the top of an Umbrian hill, in the middle of 300 hectare of vineyards. |
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This is because of the spiralling prices of betel leaves after Cyclone Phailin destroyed betel vineyards in most of the districts. |
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The Grand Cru vineyards are grouped together and overlook the river Serein, lucky them. |
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Underripe, as it so often is in many of Chile's vineyards, it is bitter, green and as unpleasant as tobacco juice. |
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The gorge is quite deep and is the stretch of the river which is known for its many castles and vineyards. |
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Winemakers are over the moon to be able to showcase the individual nuances within their vineyards. |
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The Romans, and more recently the Italians, used to plant elms in vineyards as supports for vines. |
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Even the majestic Jupiter, the ruler of the gods, was honored for the aid his rains might give to the farms and vineyards. |
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Wineries and vineyards in the Northern Neck and along the Blue Ridge Mountains also have begun to generate income and attract tourists. |
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European vineyards were planted with a wide variety of the Vitis vinifera grape. |
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Today there is increasing interest in developing organic, ecologically sensitive and sustainable vineyards. |
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The use of drip irrigation in recent years has expanded vineyards into areas which were previously unplantable. |
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Numbers of New World vineyard plantings have been increasing almost as fast as European vineyards are being uprooted. |
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This pousada has several rooms that are a short hike from the main building, which is perched above the vineyards. |
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Scattered across Tasmania are many vineyards, and Tasmanian beer brands such as Boags and Cascade are known and sold in Mainland Australia. |
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The Historic Vineyard Society has catalogued many vineyards. |
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These are incredible historic Zinfandel vineyards so I wanted to connect the dots from the vineyard through to the winemaking. |
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Helena which rehabilitated and upsized a failing water line tucked between a highway, rail line and historic vineyards. |
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Vesuvius was described by Roman writers as having been covered with gardens and vineyards before its eruption of 79 CE, which destroyed the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii. |
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South Africa has also developed into a major wine producer, with some of the best vineyards lying in valleys around Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Paarl and Barrydale. |
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It's hard to turn your back on the consistency of this lower-priced brand, not when the wines from Trinchero-farmed vineyards are as varietally correct as they have become. |
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The trade body English Wine Producers said it did not expect such a bountiful harvest this year because many vineyards are reporting smaller berries. |
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In keeping with his renowned knowledge of pinot noir, La Follette has crafted a line of four pinot noirs, each with grapes sourced from different vineyards. |
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The rotundone content and perceived pepperiness were generally higher in 2002 than in 2003, and consistently higher in some vineyards compared with others. |
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I was fortunate enough to sample the 2009 white and the 2008 red from the Saade family's isolated vineyards in the world's most strife-ridden nation. |
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Irvine's white, a grape variety named for Hans Irvine, who developed the vineyards at Great Western, is frequently used in the Australian sparklers. |
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Casas de Lorca is set among Murcian vineyards and almond groves. |
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This newly built, 108-passenger vessel will cruise Europe's enticing Douro River Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, featuring vineyards and charming native farms. |
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One of the largest own ers of grand cru vineyards, they also have prize par cels of premier cru across eight dierent terroirs and a agship Chablis, Chablis Saint Martin. |
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For this reason, some of the best wines come from vineyards planted on quite steep hills, conditions which would make most other agricultural products uneconomic. |
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