Word: chateau
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...wonder that big money, much of it foreign, has moved into the wine country. Napa's Raymond Vineyard, Sonoma's Chateau St. Jean and Firestone (near Santa Barbara) -- all premium labels -- are owned in whole or part by Japanese interests. Beaulieu, Inglenook and Christian Bros. in Napa County are subsidiaries of the British conglomerate Grand Metropolitan. Most of the major French champagne producers, including Moet & Chandon, Mumm, Louis Roederer and Piper Heidsieck, have subsidiaries turning out California sparklers...
...robust fruit -- and a price tag that will knock your socks off. For $500 a bottle, oenophiles who purchase the world-famous Chardonnay expect to enjoy one of the world's great wines. Now it seems that some of them would have been better off with a bottle of Chateau Toledo. Attracted by the bouquet of easy profit, wine counterfeiters have produced bogus bottles of DRC Montrachet, which have turned up in California and as far away as Tokyo...
...Beaujolais and some other fruity reds benefit from cool temperatures. Nixon says California's consistent climate renders vintage years virtually irrelevant as a guide to quality, a claim that would be disputed by the Napa and Sonoma vintners who suffered through icy rains last fall. Nixon heralds the 1961 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild as the century's greatest Bordeaux; he serves it when regaling journalists in his home. Wine critic Robert Parker calls the 1961 "unyielding, too acidic, disturbingly austere and surprisingly ungenerous." Parker's pick: the 1949 Lafleur Pomerol...
...Thatcher in her first election, but now is deeply troubled about the Prime Minister and "the socially divisive effects of her policies that make it increasingly difficult for the really poor, who are very often hopeless." When Fraser expressed these concerns, she sparked charges that she was a "chateau-bottled socialist" who has prospered under the Thatcherism she deplores. In rebuttal, championing the independence of writers, Antonia snaps, "In France they would have given me a medal." She readily acknowledges that personal attacks sting. "Yes. Absolutely. Fair criticism is hurtful; unfair criticism is doubly hurtful." But Lady Antonia is past...
...burned and Monet inspired. The great Gothic cathedral of Notre Dame miraculously survived the wartime bombings, but all the city's old bridges and many buildings were destroyed. Farther south and east the Normandie slips beneath the cliffs high above Les Andelys, where Richard the Lion-Hearted's Chateau Gaillard stands watch over the valleys below. Perhaps the most haunting of all the stops is Monet's retreat at Giverny, where the painter lived for 43 years until his death in 1926. In his calendar, June belongs to the rhododendrons and wisteria, but come summer each color will have...