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...foot of spectacular Tmolus mountain, birthplace of the wine god Bacchus. Sardis once served as the capital of the great Lydian Fmpire. Surrounded by the abundant agricultural and grazing land which was the heartland of Lydia. Sardis symbolized luxury, sophistication, and sumptuous wealth...
...addition to Sheldon, Allis hired racers from other local cycling clubs, including the Boston Road Club. Northeast Bike Club, Bacchus Club and Fitchburg Cycling Club...
...invited 500 over for dinner on sound stage No. 9, a vast space where the M*A*S*H series had been filmed. For this occasion, the olive drab was replaced by gay Hollywood eclectic: Ficus trees draped with fairy lights, fiber glass and plaster statues (including one of Bacchus) standing on yards of artificial turf, a 24-ft.-high fountain (from Hello Dolly), painted pastoral backdrops (used in From the Terrace) and Chinese paper lanterns...
...taken more than a century for Bacchus Jr. to assemble his credentials: today they are a cause for hallelujahs, not harrumphs. In wine tastings from Perth to Paris, the bottles from California have been winning golds, silvers and bronzes in informal vinous Olympics against the products of some of the world's most astute and experienced winemakers. This is not to suggest, as some Californiaphiles would have it, that the Old Wine God is about to be toppled by the New. It does confirm that California's best wines are now as worthy of serious consideration and consumption...
...proud of their origins. California has unique climates, unique soil and the talented people to turn good grapes into good wine. In time, California will stop trying to compete with France and will pro duce wines that are uniquely and quintessentially Californian. They should be great." And Young Bacchus will have come...