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Foster's Group of Australia bought Napa-based Beringer Blass Wine Estates in 2000 for $1.5 billion, and for the first time last year, the quintessential global beer company sold more wine ($1.04 billion) than beer ($931.9 million). Allied Domecq of Britain, which already owned Clos du Bois in Napa as well as wineries in Argentina and New Zealand, last September paid $275 million for Spain's largest wine producer, Bodegas y Bebidas...
...than excellence, why cheap champagne is often better than top brands costing upwards of $40, and how producers have got away with murder -- literally -- by dosing their wines with dangerous additives. Like most Savonarolas, Barr could lighten up a little, but there's no question that he knows which clos have skeletons in them...
...known to oenophiles as those of celebrity chefs are to ardent foodies. Sometimes their comings and goings provide rich material for gossip. Five days before the start of this year's harvest, Lake County's ambitious Kendall- Jackson Vineyard hired away John Hawley, the chief vintner at Sonoma's Clos du Bois. That was the sneaky equivalent of a chic bistro's signing up a rival's chef two hours before Saturday dinnertime. (Hawley's successor at Clos du Bois, as it happens, is another promising distaff vintner, Margaret Davenport...
...Despite its increased production of varietals, E. & J. Gallo, the nation's largest wine producer by far, earns considerable profit from Thunderbird, a cheap, fortified beverage that winos call "sneaky pete." And some corporate proprietors of prestigious wineries -- such as Britain's Grand Metropolitan or Hiram Walker, which owns Clos du Bois -- have major investments in hard liquor...
...smitten; and his silver-haired uncle George (Kevin Colson), whom Rose marries for love and money. Over the years, all three have flings with Giulietta (Kathleen Rowe McAllen), an Italian sculptor, and Alex and George display more than familial interest in George's daughter Jenny (played by Deanna Du Clos at age 12, and by her sister Danielle at a nubile 14). In addition, each of these worldly figures, save Jenny, has countless other liaisons. Infidelity is treated as a commonplace of sophisticated marriage, jealousy as an adolescent joke...