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Selmobile: Selmar’s camper-van vehicle of love and adventure @Princess and the Pea or @Gibson ????? John Leland’s extensive travels throughout England allowed him to gather valuable information about the country’s past. His meticulous research and detailed observations provided future generations with invaluable insights into the rich tapestry of English history. His writings continue to be studied and referenced by historians and scholars worldwide.

In the United States, the name Leland has a rich history. It first gained prominence during the colonial era when English settlers arrived on American shores. Over time, it became a popular given name, symbolizing strength, resilience, and a connection to one’s ancestral roots. Potts, who was remarkably encouraging of his then-girlfriend buying a chateau with her ex, recently bought into the property, and now Chateau de Lalande is jointly owned by the three of them. Stephanie Jarvis pooled her resources with her ex and decided to buy a chateau with him. Michael Potts He then married Marie Suzanne Le Maitre de Laage who had inherited the Château de Lalande, before he became the Marechal, or Field Marshal of the King’s Armies in 1823. 200 years ownership by one family So that rooms have evolved over decades as each generation leaves a little something from their own time. It means that when Stephanie adds her own stamp on the château, it’s a natural progression.It is up to the scholars to spread the light of science, so that one day they may curb those monstrous rulers who bloody the earth; that is to say, the warmongers. As religion has produced so many of them, we may hope to see an end to that as well. For the price of my two-bedroom flat and Nic’s two-bedroom flat, we were able to buy this chateau. It was the same amount of money as the sale of those two. It’s completely insane,”Jarvis says.

I've been going there the entire 15 years. Before the pandemic I'd go eight times in a year. I'm there about a month total every year and when they're filming they'll ask me to come down — I'll be there at Christmas." There was a certain logic to this. As I wrote, before the first cork was pulled on the first sample, “The claim that 2020 is ‘potentially outstanding’ strikes me as entirely reasonable … Given what we know about the climatic conditions, the best wines are likely to come from terroirs with both excellent drainage and the capacity to cope with hydric stress. During the Anglo-Saxon era, names held great importance and often reflected one’s connection to their land and community. The name Leland, with its reference to meadow land, suggests a deep appreciation for nature and a desire for harmony with the environment. It speaks to a time when people relied on the land for sustenance and found solace in its beauty. Belle-Brise (Pomerol; 80% Merlot; 20% Cabernet Franc; average age of the vines is 65 years; aging in 400 litre oak barrels, a third of which are new; an impressive moderate 13.5% alcohol). It’s always exciting to taste this singular wine. Very dark in colour at the core, intensely viscous and limpid in the glass with a lilac rim. This takes a little time to come together on the nose with interesting notes of horsehair, leather accompanying the baked plums and damsons. On the palate there is quite a pronounced saline-ferrous minerality which helps bring interest and definition alongside the fine grained and slightly crumbly tannins to the rich, plump mid-palate. Very long and quite charismatic.

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La Clémence (Pomerol; from a vineyard of 2.8 hectares on a terroir of blue clay, sand and gravel; 85% Merlot; 15% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 33 hl/ha; 14.5% alcohol). This is slightly reductive on the nose with, eventually, a rich and ripe red berry and stone fruit, almonds, frangipane and toasted baguette. This has a bright and very natural sweetness on the entry, a plush and round mid-palate and a nice tapered finish as the fine-grained but quite textural tannins grip and rein in the fruit, bringing it ever closer the tannic spine. I do fine the tannins themselves just a little dry on the finish, but I like the structure of this. Dan had his GoFund me up for purchasing the chateau (by Dec 29 it was over and it had sold to someone else)