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...Less than enthralling. I am not a captious man, but this wine’s heavy nose was so striking, the experience was almost enervating. The bouquet possesses an unsteady, if protean structure: alternating undertones of honey and pencil lead emanate. Though not excessively rustic per se, I sense a sour, dense, deep tannin with a persistent, yet subtle, inner, unpalatably concentrated fruitiness. It leaves an unpleasant emptiness. In a sense, the finish is a bit jejune...

Author: By Wine CONNOISSEUR par excellence and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Chianti Wars | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...Marchi, the producer of Isole e Olena, places among the top winegrowers in Italy. His echt classico is a wine of fine breeding: the unimposing structure yields uncommon class and elegance. The outspoken Tuscan character imposingly projects the overall gestalt. Its pièce de resistance is clearly the bouquet of red berries, dark cherries, black currants and vanilla. It has a varietal twang and an agreeable consistency of flavor and aroma...

Author: By Wine CONNOISSEUR par excellence and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Chianti Wars | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...dead. If the law were different in Indiana, the mother could have walked a few steps farther and, without fear of prosecution, delivered the baby into the hands of a nurse. For the infant's funeral, 70 strangers showed up. One of them left a note attached to a bouquet of flowers: "Lord, as You hold this child in Your arms today, please comfort him and tell him we're sorry for not protecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Refuge For Throwaways | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...boyfriend is somewhere else. And instead of a real valentine, he'll send me an e-card. And a virtual bouquet...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roving Reporter: What's the worst thing about Valentine's Day? | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...comically odd soundtrack, courtesy of a colorful bouquet of musicians. A morose punk rocker in painfully tight leather, whose music marries Alice Cooper to Tracy Chapman, splits Government Center with the occasional trio of starving violinists from the New England Conservatory. The would-be blues guitarist battles an aging Rastafarian below Harvard Square. All create a soothing din amidst the T's unkind acoustics...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Falling in Love With the T | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

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