Word: auberon
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...that California wines did two decades ago. Chilean Cabernets, especially, are "softer than California and yet more accessible than Bordeaux," says Wine Spectator senior editor Thomas Matthews. "If this keeps up, Chile could be, sooner than many expected, something more than a perennial wine bridesmaid." Even British wine author Auberon Waugh--whose novelist father Evelyn Waugh considered New World wine an oxymoron--gushes over a collection of 1996 and '97 reds from the Montes winery in Chile's Curico Valley. Chilean wines, he says, "are showing magnificent and rich concentration, but also subtlety and changing flavors...
...courts, as we did under the Prince of Wales and Caroline [in the early 1800s], with the Whigs attending on the Princess of Wales and the Tories perhaps attending on the Prince of Wales. [That's a] way of keeping the monarchy alive. Otherwise it will lapse into boredom." AUBERON WAUGH, novelist, editor, the Literary Review...
Schine continues in a tradition exemplified by Joyce Carol Oates' Black Water and Auberon Waugh's waspish commentary for the Spectator. All attribute numerous undesirable traits to the young people who populate their work. These unfortunates are uniformly slothful, vain, banal, (place your vice here) revealing that while these authors may have read about and taught young people, they may not actually know any young people...