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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands. It seems that your “tribute” is not quite working.

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Companhia das Lezírias ‘Tyto alba’ Vinhas Protegidas Tinto (2013)

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The region boasts some of the country’s richest farmland and besides wine, the estate produces rice, cork, and livestock. ‘Tyto alba’ is made at Companhia das Lezírias, a state-run agricultural and forestry estate founded in 1836 on lands once belonging to the Portuguese Crown in the province of Ribatejo, north of Lisbon.

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