Word: chandon
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...arrived in 1973, laying out some $20 million over the years for 1,500 Napa Valley acres on which to produce a sparkling white wine called Chandon Brut. This past spring, in a significant departure from Bordeaux practice, Baron Philippe de Rothschild started a joint venture with Napa Valley Vintner Robert Mondavi to produce 5,000 cases a year of quality Cabernet Sauvignon, which will carry a label with the two signatures...
None of these Franco-American producers plans to sell his California quaff in Europe. Steven Spurrier, owner of the Paris wine school L'Académie du Vin, believes that to be a wise decision. Says he: "Moēt would be crazy to import Chandon Brut into France. In my opinion it is much better than their own Moēt et Chandon. They would be competing against themselves with a better-tasting wine at a better price...
...Miami International Airport. There they were welcomed by a high school band playing Rule, Britannia, Mickey Mouse, Flipper the Dolphin, a bicycle-riding parrot and the mayor of Miami Beach. Hizzoner grabbed the first couple to clear customs and bestowed on them Moët et Chandon champagne, a limousine ride to the Nautilus Hotel and the keys to the city, which in recent years has been sadly depressed...
...also opened stores in France and Canada; its U.K. branches now stock such previously unavailable luxury items as pure cashmere coats, glassware, fine bone china and-in the food sections -mangoes, passion fruit and a line of house-brand champagne rated on par with Moët et Chandon...
...have begun to pick up mildly in France, and some bottlers are even talking of an end-of-year buying splurge by holiday revelers at home and abroad. Failing that, all is still not lost. "After all," muses Jacques de Vriese, export director of the large Moët & Chandon company, "people will still need champagne for weddings and to launch boats...