Word: claret
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Thirteen out of the 20 gold-medal table wines, furthermore, are sold under the name of the grape out of which they are made, as Cabernet rather than claret, Riesling rather than Rhine wine. Pinot rather than Chablis or Burgundy, Semillon rather than Sauterne. American wine names are beginning to make some real headway...
...Better today. I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately . . . drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets. I shall live long. . . . If I could only breathe. . . . Plender, Gaston, open the windows." "The windows are all wide open, my lord," said the valets...
...Pops is called provincial, but in many respects, not including its programmes, it smacks of cosmopolitanism. At Harvard Night at the Pops on Monday, people sat at little green tables in a carnivalized Symphony Hall sipping claret lemonade, drinking Black Horse Ale, eating Hood's ice cream, satisfying the lusts of the palate along with the pleasures of the ear. They chattered through the waltzes and they stood for "Fair Harvard" and they were careless and relaxed all night in the lap of familiarity...
...spring, Boston goes to the Pops, From Beacon Hill, from Back Bay, from the North Shore, Bostonians come to drink claret lemonade, to talk to their friends, and to enjoy what is probably the best entertainment to be found in the city at this time of year...
...Manhattan's 40th Street, one Henry George consumed at a sitting "six dozen Cotuit oysters, a two-quart tureen of mock turtle soup, a roast . . . weighing just under six pounds, four steak . . . slabs of cold Virginia ham, a dozen scones filled with whipped cream, three bottles of claret, 18 bottles of beer, and countless . . . rolls, butter, radishes, coffee, and sweet oddments." At Bleeck's too, Actress Helen Hayes found Playwright Nunnally Johnson "beating his third wife, whom he had married that afternoon, over the head with a silver-handled umbrella, a wedding present . . . screaming the while...