Both countries have big-league wine industries (Argentina's is the world's fifth-largest), nearly 500 years of vintages, and growing areas with Eden-like climates for farming wine grapes--so warm and dry that grapes easily ripen and pesticides, fungicides, and anti-rot measures are often unnecessary.

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This is, it turns out, a perfect place for nurturing grapes that respond to warm, dry autumns--the Maremma is often glowing with an Indian summer at harvesttime.

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The result is a tent that can keep a camper warm and dry through even the worst troll-induced Scandanavian snow blasts.

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When the supply runs completely dry, Herschel will warm from its ultra-low functioning temperature and go blind.

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The untended fields and the warm and dry summer have combined to provide a splendid breeding-ground for the swarms of locusts.

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Having finally arrived to a warm fanfare in Australia's east-coast city of Brisbane, Domjan relates that his greatest pleasures on dry land are simply a good meal and a decent night's sleep.

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