Word: chateau
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...most famous fine French wines have traditionally come from the Medoc, a region north of Bordeaux. True wine lovers think nothing of paying $80 for a 1982 bottle of Chateau Lafite or Chateau Mouton. But many discriminating connoisseurs are paying even more for a once obscure, less aristocratic wine: Chateau Petrus. Produced for more than 130 years but virtually unknown in the U.S. until the 1960s, Petrus comes not from the famed Medoc but from a region to the east called Pomerol, which used to be disdained in Bordeaux wine circles. Now Chateau Petrus commands $250 a bottle...
...into five levels of quality, but Petrus was not even ranked. For many decades after that, Bordeaux traders disdained Petrus and other wines from Pomerol in favor of more prized labels from the Medoc, Sauternes and Graves regions. But the 1947 Petrus was so spectacular that word of the chateau began to spread throughout France...
...More recently, Ron has been turning out pieces for Playboy magazine on such subjects as the 1984 Democratic National Convention and the summit between his father and Mikhail Gorbachev. Wearing blue jeans and red Reeboks, Ron had the unprecedented advantage of living at the President's chateau while on assignment, causing no small consternation among the rest of the press corps. Some officials were dismayed by the flippant article he produced. Titled While Lenin Slept, it tosses out cheeky descriptions. Three KGB types are slurred as the "kind of lugs who crush walnuts on their heads because it feels good...
...plying them with coffee and doughnuts. But Bruce Katz, president of Rockport Co., a shoe manufacturer in Marlboro, Mass., thinks a little sun and wind surfing are a much better inducement. This summer he is spending a reported $15,000 a month to rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss. Rockport, a thriving maker of walking shoes (estimated 1985 sales: $68 million...
...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...