Word: blanced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose prices were not rising. One odd loophole in the government's appellation controlée regulations was that official papers for wines were marked by region of origin but not by color. Bert was accused of switching the papers for the two batches of wines by stamping blanc on the Midi documents and rouge on those for the Bordeaux. This meant that he had to sell the Bordeaux white wines as even cheaper Midi whites. But he could also peddle his dirt-cheap Midi reds as more expensive Bordeaux red, at profits averaging almost $100 per bbl. Total...
...million gal. of California table wine consumed annually by Americans is made from plebeian grapes grown in California's hot San Joaquin Valley, blended and sold mostly by the jug. The highly cherished European wines, on the other hand-such aristocrats as Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc-are made only from selected clones whose territory and yield are as strictly regulated as a royal household and sell in general for $8 a bottle or more. In fact, vagaries of the European climate make the great vintages as costly as a Patou perfume...
...producers. The results could finally be sampled when the firm recently began releasing 200,000 cases of its first varietals on a market earlier entered by such other California wineries as Lamont and Inglenook Navelle. Among the best are three white wines of French ancestry: a dry aromatic Sauvignon Blanc, a smooth pale Chenin Blanc and a Colombard, a rich, fruity wine that is somewhat sweeter than its French cousin. Gallo has also produced several red varietals, including a full-bodied Barbera, similar to the wine grown in Italy's Piedmont. A surprise to many familiar with European varieties...
With good reason obviously. Although the princes at one point were $2 million ahead, they went on to prove that old axiom once formulated by Casino Founder Camille Blanc: "Money won by gamblers is just money loaned." The sheiks kept on gambling and not only blew it all but racked up losses of more than $6 million...
Medicine, dispensed by the proverbial Florence Nightingale across the river, is still a novelty--therefore to be avoided. Prescriptions are seldom followed and infant mortality is high. Several times a week, the familiar orange helicopter from the hospital at Blanc Sablon, the border town between Quebec and Labrador, lands on the riverbank to collect and deposit patients on the orders of the nurse. It is not unusual for parents to try to convince her that healthy babies are in fact sick, thereby placing the child in the hands of the hospital and reducing the burden of extra dependents until...