Freedom and fine wines
Twenty-five years after its emergence from the stifling apartheid regime, South Africa is finally beginning to make a mark with a new wave of improved wines
Extending one’s kingdom through science rather than war, thus enhancing one’s kingdom’s wealth through engineering rather than plundering, was an interesting prospect for King Henry IV of France.
In 1610, he employed Dutch polder builders to shore up the gravely estuarine basin of Bordeaux’s Gironde with new lands on the river’s left bank, known as the Médoc. Today, this area is the home of Bordeaux classed growths and great ...
