Word: claret
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...1720s and '30s. who first used one to bring men together to mix fun and politics. "Up to the chin in beef, venison, geese, turkeys, etc.," wrote one of the guests at Walpole's stag affairs, "and generally over the chin in claret, strong beer and punch." As roads and transportation improved, being a guest became more convenient. Women joined the fun, and the weekend house party began its long and bleary-eyed journey toward today...
...least three days to bring out their uniquely gamy flavor. At London's incomparable Connaught Hotel dining room, they are served in classic fashion: roasted but bloody, in their own juice, with paté, bread sauce or gravy and potato crisps, preferably accompanied by a light claret "to tone them down a bit," as Connaught Headwaiter Joseph O'Toole puts it. (Sherlock Holmes preferred his grouse fried with bacon and served with currant jelly, gravy, browned potatoes and mushrooms.) A grouse luncheon at the Connaught costs about $58, sans claret. At dinner, the à la carte menu does...
...make stained-glass windows of his (and other painters') works. He found himself dissatisfied with the state of the art, which then chiefly consisted of fusing the drawings into the glass, and began looking for improvements. In his experiments, he records: "I perceived that the glass used for claret bottles and preserve jars was richer, finer and had a more beauttiful quality in color than any glass I could buy." The secret, he concluded, was that this cheaper glass "contained the oxides of iron and other impurities which are left in the sand when melted." It took him almost...
...produce a crisis analogous to the one that nearly sank the Bordeaux wine industry in the early 1970s. A surge of investment in Bordeaux vintages, to some extent by people who could not tell Medoc from camels' urine, shoved prices so high that traditional consumers of claret switched to Italian and other wines, thus tearing the bottom out of the market...
...with Ax are faithful to the Dvorak spirit. The older Juilliard brings a muscular exuberance to the piece, while the youthful members of the Cleveland achieve a light, effortless expressiveness well suited to the music's many moods. It is a matter of taste-like preferring Burgundy or claret-though both interpretations are from excellent pressings...