Word: beaujolaises
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Almost always dressed in a natty but rumpled suit, Pivot, 52, is an unlikely candidate for stardom. The son of a winegrower and grocer in Lyons, he attended journalism school in Paris. In 1958, after dabbling in financial reporting and writing a novel, he applied for a job on the...
Pivot spends a minimum of 70 hours a week reading, making it a point to finish at least one book a day. In order to plow through more pages, he commutes to work by public transportation and when on vacation often asks his wife to drive. Besides being host of...
It was so much fun, they decided, that very soon they were drinking it in bacchanalian quantities. Brand new Beaujolais was the young wine of choice. made and then bottled at extraordinary speed from grapes harvested only a few weeks earlier. No fashionable cafe was complete without it: the more...
The race was born, and the good Beaujolais burghers rubbed their hands with Gallic glee as they exploited a miraculous new way of turning a feeble wine into a majestic profit.
This year's Beaujolais Nouveau was released in France on November 21, and by the following day it could be found in the Square.