Word: chardonnays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With more than $800 million in sales, Gallo is the king of jug wines. But the company's market share has evaporated from 42% to 35% in the past five years as consumers have switched to fancier though still inexpensive varietals, such as Kendall-Jackson's $12-a-bottle Chardonnay. Now Kendall-Jackson, an industry innovator with $150 million in sales, alleges that Gallo's new Turning Leaf brand illegally copies the label and look of K-J's best seller. Sour grapes, retorts Gallo, whose distribution power has helped the Turning Leaf line make inroads into Kendall-Jackson...
...BUCHANAN KNOWS HE CAN'T BEAT BOB DOLE, SO he's picking a new fight--with Colin Powell. Sipping from a Styrofoam cup of Chardonnay during a late-night fl ight to Knoxville, Tennessee, last week, Buchanan told TIME, "If Dole wins the nomination and chooses Colin Powell as his running mate, the right-to-life movement will walk out of the convention, a good part of the Christian Coalition will walk, and the principled conservatives will battle" the Powell choice. Chief among them, he promises, will be Pat Buchanan...
...CALIFORNIA VIOGNIERS Originally from the Rhone valley in France, viognier (vee-oh-nyay) will never displace Chardonnay, but this white wine's complex array of flavors--a soft simulation of sweetness--has California vineyards devoting huge acreage to the difficult grape. Arrowood and Kunde Estate are choice...
...different world. Inside the bordello-red lobby area, tuxedoed giants and midgets say hello. In an alcove, T shirts and robes with a Matisse monogram are for sale. So are the pieces of Rosenthal china on which you will dine. A bartender pours you a glass of the house Chardonnay. Nine bucks...
Take me out to the ball game, Take me out to the Diamond View Suites. Buy me some Dijon-marinated jumbo shrimp and Grgich Hills Chardonnay, I don't care 'cause the company will...