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...native New Zealand, this son of three generations of importers of French vintages planted his first five acres (two hectares) of grapes in 1993. Neill has poured heart and soul not only into such successes as The Piano and the Jurassic Park movies but also into the alluvial-schist soil of the South Island of New Zealand, where his great-grandfather settled in 1859 and where Neill helms Two Paddocks, which is dedicated to the quest for what he calls "the seductive Pinot Noir...
...Pombal enacted this measure partly in hopes of reducing the power of British exporters who'd taken a liking to Portuguese wine when relations with France soured. It failed on that score; British and Portuguese wine producers continued to flourish side by side. Their vineyards adjoined on the steep, schist hillsides along the banks of the Douro River, from its mouth on the Atlantic all the way up to the Spanish border. To this day, most of the wine warehouses, called caves do vinho do porto (lodges), in Vila Nova de Gaia across from the city of Porto...
...Pombal enacted this measure partly in hopes of reducing the power of British exporters who'd taken a liking to Portuguese wine when relations with France soured. It failed on that score; British and Portuguese wine producers continued to flourish side by side. Their vineyards adjoined on the steep, schist hillsides along the banks of the Douro River from its mouth on the Atlantic all the way up to the Spanish border. To this day, most of the wine warehouses, called caves do vinho Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade...
Aberle and Burns are about to complete five hours of work. Giving the cavern a last look, they scramble to a steel escape ladder that climbs straight up, 110 ft., through a hole bored in solid schist. Shifting from that ladder to a creaky elevator cage, they hoist themselves higher still. Beside the cage as it moves upward-to a mere 5,600 ft. below the earth's surface-water streams down the timbers used to shore up the shaft, acting as both lubricant and fire preventive. In the hot shaft it sounds, and feels, like a tropical rain...
...Homestake, by contrast, has been worked almost continuously for more than a century, ever since 1876, when two brothers, Moses and Fred Manuel, first stumbled on a promising vein of quartz in the Black Hills schist. The mine's total yield to date adds up to about 10% of all the gold ever mined in the U.S. (an estimated 325 million...