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...description of the scene in Paris last week when South Vietnamese expatriates celebrated Viet Nam's National Day at the Maison de I'Amerique Latine. Consul General Nguyen Huu Tan, dressed in tails, greeted the guests, who drank bottle after bottle of cold champagne-Moet et Chandon 1949, Brut Imperial -the best. Along the Left Bank, the North Vietnamese were throwing their own ball at the headquarters of their diplomatic delegation. Not a bad life for an exile, whatever his politics...
...meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were Moët & Chandon champagne ('59 and '61) and reds and whites from the Crimea...
...varieties, they matched the acidity of one with the sweetness of another, the weakness of one with another's strong alcoholic body. When they were done, the formula had been arrived at by which such famous champagne houses as Krug, Mumm, Moët et Chandon and Pol Roger will blend their 1965 product...
...buyer, with 5,181,185 bottles last year, but the U.S. is a fast-growing second, with 3,478,522 bottles. French champagne makers are unworried over competition from U.S. wines. "They are our avant-garde," says Robert Jean de Vogüé, head of Moët et Chandon. "When people come to appreciate wine, they will appreciate French champagne." The French companies do resent the fact that U.S. makers are permitted to label their product champagne. In England and on the Continent, only wine from the actual Champagne district-35,000 acres on either bank of the lazy...
...first since January, and tripled his year's official winnings to $31,684-not quite the $49,006 he had last year at this time, but still worth a bubble or two. Within min utes, waiters were wheeling case after case of MoÖt et Chandon champagne into the press headquarters. At week's end, once again at the top of his game, Lema knocked in six straight birdies in Michigan's Buick Open, had a two-stroke lead at the end of 54 holes, and started dreaming about the blast he will throw...