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...Chinese studies, with the help of his wife Louisa, who studied wine chemistry, and his brother Charles. The Hargraves plant only vinifera, no hybrids. Remarked Alex: "If you can grow avocados, why grow brussels sprouts?" In spite of the Hargraves' recently planted vines and inexperience, their Sauvignon blanc was given top rating among New York wines tasted recently by Wine Author Alexis Bespaloff (The Fireside Book of Wine) and Vintage Magazine Publisher Philip Seldon. Seldon was also "impressed with the hints of the future" in the Hargraves' Pinot Noir...
...nights ago, Washington passed through one of those implausible hours that are both its curse and its exhilaration. In the White House the leaders of Latin America and the U.S. dined on lobster and roast veal and hoisted scores of glasses of Blanc de Blancs champagne in warm tribute to the spirit of the new Panama Canal treaty signed earlier...
...other day, officials opened the unclaimed trunk and turned up one of the literary finds of the century. Among the treasures: an original copy of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Davies' pal Lord Byron; early manuscripts of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley; and two possibly unpublished poems by Shelley. Also scattered in the trunk were some 14 letters from Byron, including a complaint that he had picked up another dose of gonorrhea...
...Ronald Reagan's headquarters in Concord's dingy New Hampshire Highway Hotel, confident aides had chilled several bottles of Almadén blanc de blancs champagne for the expected victory party on primary night. The bottles were never opened. Next morning, as the campaign troupe decamped, Ronald Reagan Jr., 17, and other deflated supporters loaded the bubbly aboard the candidate's chartered Boeing 727-just in case there might be reason for popping their corks in Florida, Illinois or the other hard primaries ahead...
...bring them so swiftly. They soon are dumped back into the realities of Detroit and New York. But the memories mingle and linger: supreme of pheasant smitane, Rockefeller, Harriman, Dillon, chestnut mousse, Bob Stack, Nanette Fabray, De La Renta, Alsop, filet of salmon in aspic, Cronkite, Swearingen, Humphrey, Schramsberg blanc de noir, Auchincloss. Watching from the dim corners of the old Decatur House on Lafayette Square, where the ladies went for tea, or inside the stately Anderson House, where Sadat the next day returned the White House favors with a dinner, one could see that a lot of the people...