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Montrachet, a white wine produced by the French vintner Domaine de la Romanee- Conti, features a penetrating yet silky fragrance, a rich and robust fruit -- and a price tag that will knock your socks off. For $500 a bottle, oenophiles who purchase the world-famous Chardonnay expect to enjoy one of the world's great wines. Now it seems that some of them would have been better off with a bottle of Chateau Toledo. Attracted by the bouquet of easy profit, wine counterfeiters have produced bogus bottles of DRC Montrachet, which have turned up in California and as far away...
BURGUNDY by Robert M. Parker Jr. (Simon & Schuster; $39.95). A magisterial but awkwardly organized tasting guide to recent vintages from this French province by America's leading wine critic. Parker, as always, is pungently direct in designating picks and pans: a 1985 Romanee-Conti, scored a perfect 100, is "utterly mind-blowing," while a 1987 Echezeaux, rated 69, is "woody, stemmy, green and thin...
...Foundation, which gave $500,000 of the firm's profits to charities each year. Four years ago, the foundation sold Altman's to B.A. Realty Associates for a price estimated at more than $100 million. The investors then sold the chain, without the real estate, to two accountants, Anthony Conti and Philip Semprevivo, who quickly cut costs and revived the store's merchandising by turning over some departments to savvy outside retailers like toy seller F.A.O. Schwarz. After losing $17 million in 1985, Altman's earned a $3.5 million profit the following year...
...when even the Church is skeptical of miracles, it's not easy being a miracle worker. Especially if you're an atheist. Just ask nonbeliever Vie Mathews (Tom Conti), whose own divine favor--or is it just luck?--is making his life miserable...
MUCH OF the burden for keeping the comedy light falls on the shoulders of Conti, the reluctant miracle worker who doesn't believe in miracles. Fortunately Conti, a veteran of many a similar off-the-wall role, proves up to the task. His wry facial expressions, his bedraggled stray-dog appearance and his dry, brittle voice seem appropriate for the exasperated yet ever-jocular...