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...BORDEAUX QUALITY: A bad vintage year (and this is) usually means a Republican victory...
Wines are a safe bet in Paris. Try the new Beaujolais for cheap--yet superb--red. German and Spanish wines are also available and are quite enjoyable. French Bordeaux and Rhones are perfect for the traditional wine drinker, but the more adventurous may want to taste the Greek liquors Don't leave Paris without sampling the very French drinks-such as Pastis (anisade with alcohol...
...speed-rail authority chose the French system over a German competitor for a 600-mile high-speed route linking Dallas with Houston and San Antonio -- a contract worth $5.8 billion on completion in 1998. In the past few years, additional TGV lines have been built toward Rennes in Brittany, Bordeaux in the southwest and Le Mans in the northwest; by 2010 the government will invest an additional $34 billion to add high-speed lines to places like Lille and Strasbourg...
April is the cruelest month, as French vintners, especially in Bordeaux, have again learned. Instead of spring showers came the worst frost in more than 30 years, killing early buds in the vineyards. First assessments halved production forecasts for the year -- a loss of almost $690 million. Said Hubert Bouteiller of the Interprofessional Council for Wines in Bordeaux: "In one fell swoop, the work of a year's pruning was destroyed...
...chill winds are not ill winds for all. After three consecutive good harvests, the market is glutted with French wine, leaving producers and merchants with huge stocks. Says Jacques Salle, editor of the Vintage Yearbook: "There's just too much good wine out there." So are the cries from Bordeaux ones of anguish or happiness? Says Peter Mayle, a British author and oenophile: "I think ((French producers)) looked at all their unsold bottles and thought up this scare so the English would worry about how little wine they had and would rush out and buy more." Besides, the vines...