Word: barbera
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...known for remarkable blends like its Hannibal label - a marriage of French and Italian fruit, in homage to the great general's march across the Alps. Winemaker Peter Finlayson has composed this wine with 43% Sangiovese, 23% Pinot Noir, 12% Nebbiolo, 11% Syrah, 6% Mourvedre and 5% Barbera grapes. The result is rich and complex, giving a concentrated, dark fruit nose, but a surprisingly gentle finish. BEAUMONT VINEYARDS Headquartered at the Compagnes Drift farm - a former Dutch East India Co. outpost - this family-run winery, tel: (27-28) 284 9194, is famous for its spicy Pinotage, but, above...
...mountainside and a phalanx of police cars, jeeps and armed agents charged up. Spera, then 60, was captured at gunpoint and hauled away to serve multiple life sentences for the 1992 car-bomb executions of anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. The property's owner, Nicola La Barbera, and Spera's doctor, Vincenzo Di Noto, were also arrested, and both later served time for Mafia association. But there was no sign of Provenzano. Authorities may never get that close to him again. A turncoat Mob informant later confirmed that Provenzano, who's been on the lam in Sicily...
...Grinch" and the ineffable "Horton Hears a Who," which the same team produced four years later, It had an educational function as well: it taught kids that there was a higher form of animation than the cheap, stilted stuff they'd been exposed to on the many Hanna-Barbera series. Here was character created through line and movement, humor and heart in the grand scheme and the tiniest, Who-size details. Fabulous work all around...
...most disposable childhood icons most fondly of all. If Gen X-ers turned nostalgic much earlier than the 30-year-olds of decades past, maybe it's because, inundated with video, musical and commercial messages from birth, they have lived more media lives in fewer years. For them, Hanna-Barbera cartoons and embarrassing-in-retrospect videos were a staple of growing up--one part Mom's cooking, one part surrogate mom. So I Love the ... et al. celebrate pop culture's dross: more Bananarama than R.E.M., more Top Gun than Tom Wolfe...
...Network (which, like TIME, is part of Time Warner), was asked to create an inexpensive, late-night show for adults, who were tuning in to the network in larger-than-expected numbers. Thus was born Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, a talk show whose host is an old Hanna-Barbera superhero, sitting behind a desk, bantering with an alien bandleader and asking such bewildered, real-life celebrity guests as Donny Osmond what superpowers they have...