Word: chateau
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Questions were also raised about Yves Chalier, the treasurer of Carrefour, who apparently authorized spending $600,000 to buy a 40-room chateau that he later had transferred to his own name...
...residence is a ten-room villa with five acres of land, a tennis court and a swimming pool. But the former dictator has even grander designs in the region, namely, a $7 million chateau nearby with 240 acres. Duvalier's arrival was met with local protests. While authorities deny that Baby Doc will be permitted to live in France permanently, no country has yet offered him refuge, and the French seem resigned to letting him stay on--at least long enough to get his backhand in shape...
...wine lovers by the late Henri Soule, owner of the tony Le Pavillon restaurant in New York. Explains Alexis Lichine, author of A Guide to the Wines and Vineyards of France: "It was served at Le Pavillon in the days when Onassis sat at a corner table. After that, Chateau Petrus became a status symbol, the sort of name dropped by people who wish to imply not only that they know wine but that they are in wine...
Petrus comes from a gray-stone chateau 15 miles east of Bordeaux that is co-owned by Jean-Pierre Moueix and Lily Lacoste-Loubat. The operation is run by Moueix's son Christian, an art collector and jogger who attributes Petrus' quality to the chateau's mature, 40-year-old vines and to his own green thumb. He personally oversees the cultivation of the vines and claims to have given each one individual attention. Says he: "I call them people. I have seen each of them." Every fall, when the grapes reach just the right degree of ripeness, 180 workers...
...reason that Petrus is so costly is that only small quantities are produced. While the renowned Chateau Lafite has 225 acres that annually yield about 240,000 bottles, Chateau Petrus has just 30 acres that produce a scant 42,000 bottles. Says John Laird, a vice president for Seagram Chateau & Estate Wines, the largest U.S. distributor of Petrus: "We ration it out with an eyedropper...