Word: dubonnet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it was revealed that Andrew Kirwan was none other than the son. by a prior marriage, of Mme Paul Dubonnet, better known to the public as Jean Nash. "best dressed woman in Europe...
...before the War there were hundreds. Where there were only 20 or 30 big importers before, hundreds have now rushed into this highly-specialized field. Schenley has Charles Heidsieck's champagne, ports and sherries from Gonzalez Byass & Co., French wines from Barton & Guestier, Noilly Prat & Cie., French vermouth, Dubonnet and the strong red Brioli Chianti of Casa Vinicola Barone Ricasoli. Most important, it has Bacardi...
Banyuls, contrary to what you mention, is not in any way a wine comparable to Dubonnet or Byrrh: it is a perfectly natural wine, completely uncolored, and containing no quinine or any other material whatever. In fact wine other than purely natural, coming from other than a certain specified region, made from other than certain specified grapes, cannot be shipped or sold under the name of Banyuls. It is, as you say, a dessert wine, and not an aperitif...
...Parisian, Banyuls is the name of a heavy dessert wine, artificially colored scarlet and spiked with quinine, which rivals Byrrh and Dubonnet as an apéritif. It is pressed among the bare hills of a French Catalan fishing village 30 mi. from the Spanish border. In Banyuls 71 years ago Aristide Maillol was born, there he still spends his winters. His grandfather was a huge peasant of tremendous physical strength who was actively engaged in Banyuls' third most important industry, smuggling. Smuggler Maillol was successful enough to indulge his grandson's taste for art, though young Aristide...
...they notice that it is on a river, that nearly every street is flanked by rows of shade trees, that the sidewalks teem with cafes, that French officials wear evening dress at day-time functions, and that many a signboard bids one to start the next meal with a Dubonnet...