
Heli-skiing, Livigno
Four drops before lunch with a guide who reads the snowpack like a ledger.
A subdivision of Places. Days built around a single good idea, and the people who have done it for decades.

Four drops before lunch with a guide who reads the snowpack like a ledger.

Four days on a 62-foot sloop, routed by weather and appetite alone.

Leave Bormio by six and the pass road is near empty. Coffee at the summit.

One long table, the picking crew as guests of honour, the vintage poured first.

Take the first cable car of the day and breakfast at 3,000 metres, before the slopes fill.

Dinner in a working farmhouse kitchen. Six seats, one menu, no substitutions.

Tree-lined pistes, lunch at a farm restaurant on the mountain, and no queue worth the name from Tuesday to Thursday.

Nice to Monaco by the Grande Corniche at dawn, Èze for coffee, and back along the Basse Corniche after lunch. One coastline, three altitudes.

Five days between the rows and the chai, ending at the long table the picking team sets for itself on the last evening.