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...CHOCOLAT, about a 15-minute walk from Edinburgh Castle. The opulent Art Nouveau café at 251 Canongate offers up chocolate as it was meant to be: rich, flavorful and complex. Founder and master chocolatier Bertrand Espouy treats chocolate as sommeliers would wine, with an emphasis on origin, terroir and manufacture. The café window features a mouthwatering display of exquisite house-made pastries and cakes, and inside, diners choose from a menu of hot chocolate drinks categorized by country of origin and percentage of cocoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Cocoa | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...After all, there aren't too many fledgling wine districts with products comparable to the legendary French vintage in terms of balance, intensity and depth - not after a history of just 23 years of grape growing. Then again, few[an error occurred while processing this directive] places have a terroir and microclimate like Waiheke. An island 35-minutes from Auckland by ferry, Waiheke is home to vineyards situated on clay soil mixed with volcanic rock, giving grapes a wonderful consistency (and particularly smooth tannins to Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot). Due to its position in the Hauraki Gulf, the island also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vintage Buzz | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...industry is interested in films that can have sequels--"tent poles," they call them. But theoretically, every work of art is unique. My generation wanted to make personal films. A Fellini film was a Fellini film, and no one else could have made it. In wine, we call it terroir--wine speaks of the earth it comes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Francis Ford Coppola | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

...tandem with Asia's ever-growing levels of wine consumption, the last two decades have seen a surge of interest in wine production, with entrepreneurs and hobbyists staking out their choices of terroir in the unlikeliest of locations, from sweltering river deltas to forested uplands. Granted, none are ready yet to challenge the supremacy of Old or New World vintners-but wasn't Australian wine widely mocked a mere 30 years ago? Here are three names to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Promise | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

...decent Shiraz from India's Sula vineyards - to greater notice. But what about other Eastern bottlings? In tandem with Asia's ever-rising levels of wine consumption, the last two decades have seen a surge of interest in wine production, with entrepreneurs and hobbyists staking out their choices of terroir in the unlikeliest of locations, from sweltering river deltas to forested uplands. Granted, none are ready yet to challenge the supremacy of Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Promise | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

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