Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avidly comparing their drinks. New vodka concoctions? Rare Napa Valley vintages? Bavarian lagers? No. This is High Sobriety, a "beverage boutique" in a North Dallas shopping center, which stocks and serves a storeful of nonalcoholic liquid refreshers. Here are such unspiked delights as Calistoga sparkling water from California, Chateau Yaldara (a sparkling spumante) from Australia, Texas Select "beer," and Carl Jung "Champagne" from West Germany with no kick at all. Cheers! And welcome to the water generation...
...summits have changed greatly since the leaders of six industrial democracies gathered at the Chateau de Rambouillet outside Paris in 1975 (Canada was added the next year). They began as general and relatively informal private chats but quickly, and probably inevitably, took on most of the trappings of full-scale international conferences: months of preparatory meetings among planners known as sherpas (after the guides who take climbers to the summits of the Himalayas), set-speech expositions of national policies, large delegations attending each head of government...
...wide variety of luxuries, and despite the new exchange rates, Parisian prices too remain pretty luxurious. As one survivor puts it, "Paris has gone from the ridiculous to the merely exorbitant." For oenophiles who have graduated from Mouton Cadet (price: $3), the Bordeaux to search for is Chateau Petrus, which sells out as soon as it is available, at $120 to $150 a bottle. And while many French wines are no cheaper in France than they are in the U.S., one of the top shippers in Bordeaux, the Maison Dubos, reports a steadily increasing number of American customers...
...spring rains and exceptionally sunny weather during harvest, particularly in the crucial month of September. Says Steven Spurrier, a Paris wine merchant: "In 1982 the growers almost couldn't believe their eyes." Alas, prices for the exceptional wines are also spectacular. The cost of a premier grand cru like Chateau Lafite-Rothschild '82 is nearly $58 a bottle (compared with $45 for the 1981 vintage), and even humbler chateaux like Prieure-Lichine are selling for $15 a bottle...
...night about halfway there, some four miles north of the city. Compared with the victory on the beachhead, the failure to reach Caen that first day seemed a minor shortcoming. Montgomery even invited Churchill on June 10 to visit his forward headquarters in a lake-studded Norman chateau, and Churchill admired "the prosperity of the countryside ... full of lovely red and white cows basking or parading in the sunshine...