Word: chateau
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...result, Mickey and Donald are developing French accents. Paris, for example, is lobbying for French names on attractions and rides, "pommes frites" instead of "French fries" on restaurant menus. Thus the centerpiece of every Disney park -- the fairy tale castle -- will be known at Euro Disneyland as Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant (although a hot dog will still...
...words in use, but such minor "rectifications" cut no ice with editors and academics who have launched a vigorous contre-attaque (new spelling: contrattaque). At the center of their protest is the circumflex accent, a little hat the French occasionally put over vowels (as in chateau and hotel, crouton and maitre). To simplify matters, the new rules would remove it from...
Today 46 of the 50 states -- all but Alaska, Wyoming and North and South Dakota -- boast commercial operations that produce wine from grapes. Some are ma-and-pa vintners with an annual capacity of 1,000 cases or less. Others are industrial giants, like Washington's prizewinning Chateau Ste. Michelle, which turns out 500,000 cases a year of 14 different varietals. Most of these regional vintages, comparable to Europe's little country wines, have only local repute. But the White House has proudly served Cabernets from Texas, Pinot Noirs from Oregon and Chardonnays from Virginia and New York...
...Burgundy producer, Maison Joseph Drouhin, has begun planting this temperamental grape in the Willamette Valley. "We're in the limbo between national and regional wines," says Oregon-proud David Adelsheim. Texas has 26 wineries and 4,000 acres under cultivation -- and no one is making jokes these days about "Chateau Bubba" or "Vin de Lone Star...
...marginal in quality. To make a profit, however, vintners must charge premium prices for what, realistically, is vin ordinaire. But for the Adventurous Oenophile and his ilk, the discovery of a promising little Merlot from North Carolina (try Biltmore's) or a delicate Eiswein from Michigan (taste one from Chateau Grand Traverse) will always be worth the cost...