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1 week ago | skynews.com.au | Des Houghton

A new hilltop hotel in a tropical garden with its own beach has helped reignite a tourism boom in Singapore. It is one of a number of new hotels from Asia, Europe and Australia to make the hotel hot list this year. Raffles Sentosa is Singapore’s first all-villa hotel featuring 62 contemporary lodges, each with its own private pool. It is an ideal place for a mini break for travellers making the arduous trip to and from Europe.

2 weeks ago | couriermail.com.au | Des Houghton

Des HoughtonDon't miss out on the headlines from Des Houghton. Followed categories will be added to My News. If police find primary school children running wild in the middle of the night, should their parents be prosecuted for failing in their duty to safeguard them? Should dead-beat parents be held responsible, in part, for their children’s crimes? And should those same neglectful parents be made to pay for the damage to public property caused by their children in crime sprees?

2 weeks ago | skynews.com.au | Des Houghton

An American investment banker who was raised in a winemaking family in California has released Tasmania’s first bourbon-style whiskey at Rosevears in the Tamar Valley. Justin Turner had planned to build his whiskey distillery in the US, but all that changed when he fell head over heels in love with Taswegian Sarah-Jayne Hall. Ms Hall was working as a corporate lawyer in New York when their paths crossed on St Patrick’s Day in 2012.

3 weeks ago | skynews.com.au | Des Houghton

The wine sage James Halliday is living proof that quality wine is a pretty good investment. In a lifetime of collecting he amassed a large cellar. Along the way he quaffed the very best. In 2020 he reportedly sold around 5,000 bottles for $2 million, double what he paid for them. Some of the bottles fetched $2,200 and $30,000 each. They were pinots from the fabled Burgundy estate of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.

1 month ago | skynews.com.au | Des Houghton

Australia’s oldest family winery has raided its museum stocks to release nine special red wines to showcase where it has come after 175 years of turning grapes into wine. Yalumba unveiled a set of museum wines from its outstanding 2010, 2013 and 2015 vintages, each carefully cellared for 10, 12 and 15 years. The idea for the museum releases was the brainchild of Jessica Hill-Smith, Yalumba’s general manager of public relations, communications and business affairs.