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Article: Vintage way to lap it up; Travel editor Simon Davis is smitten by Europe's new bespoke driving holiday - and a friend called Rose.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2005
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Byline: SIMON DAVIS
TAKE the first left at the roundabout," said a young woman whose voice was forthright but not without allure, "and you will arrive at your destination." And so I did, smack where I wanted to be. "Darling Rose, you are brilliant," I whispered.
The chrome spoke wheels of my black convertible Jaguar E-Type crunched the gravel on the drive and the sound made me grin like a child popping bubble wrap. In front of us was Chateau Cordeillan-Bages, the two-Michelin-starred hotel and restaurant attached to the impeccable Lynches-Bages vineyard near Pauillac, in the Medoc. I wasn't late for my table.
Rose had done it again. This was my ...