Expect stunning landscapes, uncrowded beaches, abundant wildlife, distinguished wine and food, fascinating cultural crossovers and political history in the making.
J". and believed by a number of distinguished wine experts to have been part of an order placed in 1790 by Thomas Jefferson, who managed, among his not inconsiderable other accomplishments, to become America's first wine connoisseur.
Here stately French Second Empire homes play host to some of the city's most distinguished wine bars.
Mezcal is one of the world's great spirits: complex, gorgeous and endlessly intriguing, distinguished like great wines by a strong sense of place.
A distinguished and venerable wine, sherry is a product of the region's limestone-rich, chalky soil (albariza), its native grapes particularly Palomino and Pedro Ximénez and a unique vinification process.
The Bordeaux list is short but distinguished, and there are wines from every important area in France.
Taste the Difference Douro, Portugal 2012 (£8, Sainsbury's) From the home of port, and made by distinguished port and table wine producer Quinta do Crasto, this long-term favourite of mine in the Sainsbury's range is as good as ever, offering a floral prettiness to go with its deep and vibrant fruits of the forest and damson and juicy tannins for Boxing Day roast beef.
A long and distinguished career in the Bordeaux wine business has provided Douglas with a great appreciation of the additional pleasure to be gained by combining good food with good wine.
They wine and dine you, send distinguished arrangements of flowers, but by the third date their unworthiness is revealed, and they become as transparent as the sweet nothings they whisper — all promise and no delivery.
They opened with a 1984 Montrachet, a not notably distinguished vintage of the world's greatest dry white wine.
