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...year anniversary of the Persian empire. Just months before, the world's royals and Presidents had flocked to Persepolis - the stone city in the desert built by King Darius and sacked by Alexander the Great - to watch costume parades of ancient Persian soldiers, down Château Lafite-Rothschild 1945 and sleep on Porthault linen in tents designed in Paris. In 1971, even a 5-year-old can feel the aggressive glamour of the Shah's regime. Nearly every shop and office has a picture of the hawk-faced Shah and his beautiful Empress, Farah. My favorite...
...Nomblot Egg has since been hatching in wineries all over the world, from Domaine Combier of Crozes Hermitage and Château de Fieuzal of Pessac Léognan to California and Australia. "It's a snowball effect," says Nomblot, who now sells 250 tanks a year. "My challenge is to convince the best winemakers in every country to use them." He speaks by phone from Chile, where his Eggs will soon be bubbling with Carménère at Alvaro Espinoza's celebrated Antiyal winery...
...film follows the lonely young singer and seamstress into the life of a courtesan, a job she's not particularly suited to. She meets a rich gentleman farmer, Etienne Balsan (the marvelous Benoît Poelvoorde), and follows him to his château outside Paris, drawn by a lack of other alternatives and a desire to get closer to Paris. She offers herself physically but without any indication that she is interested in the act from a personal perspective. Her only attempt to ingratiate herself is in learning how to ride Etienne's beloved horses, and even then...
...Eventually Lambertye makes his first overt move by holding Patricia's hand during a train ride back from a 1984 D-Day anniversary ceremony in Normandy. Similar expressions of hand endearment follow, before the pair open the seriously carnal chapter of their affair in a presidential château in Rambouillet - where Giscard himself used to hold hunting expeditions in the surrounding woods...
...warm yourself by the fire (the lodge contains 14 working fireplaces) before retiring to one of seven expansive suites fashioned by Auckland interior designer Stephen Cashmore. If resting your head at the Otahuna blows the budget, try the handsome Clearview Lodge, www.clearviewlodge.com - a French-style château with working vineyard, easily accessible from the airport - or Hotel SO, www.hotelso.co.nz. The latter offers affordable minimalism in the heart of town, on the doorstep of shopping and nightlife...