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What riles Joe Heitz involves a subject that mystifies many oenophiles, even though millions of marketing dollars are affected: American Viticultural Areas, often informally called appellations. Heitz is prominent among the winemakers who are fighting a proposal put forward by many of his neighboring vintners that would designate new AVAs...
Inspired in part by laws that designate many of Europe's prestige winemaking regions, ranging from the Medoc to the Moselle, the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) first authorized AVAs in 1978. There are now some 106 appellations, about half of them in California.
The delegation's principal advisers were John Foster Dulles and Hamilton Fish Armstrong. Dulles, who would have been Secretary of State if Tom Dewey had been elected President, worked well and loyally for Stettinius. Armstrong's vast knowledge of foreign affairs was immensely useful to the delegation'...
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Col. Shoemaker says: "By raising the bird and dropping it suddenly it Avas made to flutter as it was going down; and the flying birds, seeing it, would begin to circle around, coming nearer and nearer, until they finally lit on the bed around the stool pigeon. Then the net...