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The Kiwi who makes wine with royalty in his shipping container hotel in Chile You need courage and a functioning GPS to find Grant Phelps. The Kiwi winemaker-cum-hotelier lives atop one of Valparaíso's 42 hills, requiring a white-knuckle drive up spiralling switchbacks, past brightly coloured houses plonked higgledy-piggledy on steep inclines. Christchurch-born Phelps opened WineBox Valparaíso, his 21-room hotel, in 2018.
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Saveur
What Happens When You Treat Making Tequila Like Champagne An industrious businessman from a prominent Mexican family, Juan Gallardo has served as both the CEO of a company that processes much of Mexico’s sugarcane and molasses, and as the director of a company that distributes all of the country’s Pepsi products. Gallardo met some influential folks at French spirits group Moët Hennessy—among them Trent Fraser, former Vice President of champagne label Dom Perignon. As the friendship blossomed, a collaboration seemed inevitable, and a discreet inquiry was made: How might Moët Hennessy, overseer of prestigious brands like Dom and Krug and Veuve Clicquot, break into the tequila industry? And would Gallardo help?.... |
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Teuters
China set to deepen Argentine trade ties with bid for grains 'superhighway' Chinese state-owned construction giant China Communications Construction Co Ltd (CCCC) is preparing a bid to dredge Argentina’s Parana River, the country’s main cargo superhighway that takes soy and corn from the Pampas farm belt to the shipping lanes of the south Atlantic and the world. Representatives of CCCC and its Shanghai Dredging unit have met with Argentine government and local port officials to sound out the dredging concession, according to three people involved in the talks, which have not been previously reported. CCCC is at the forefront of China’s push to lock in food supplies by investing in commodities transport hubs globally..... |
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