Word: exoticism
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The sun is setting as Alfred Tesseron finishes his tour of the Château Pontet-Canet, which is perched on a hill above the legendary Bordeaux wine village of Pauillac. He has talked proudly about how his father bought the château 30 years ago. He has driven...
4 StarsAs winter approaches, Harvard’s biggest flaw becomes more and more apparent: it isn’t in Palo Alto. No one who has weathered a Cambridge winter would wonder why composer John C. Adams ’69 would relocate to California immediately after finishing his...
But once you get to plutonium, with 94 protons, you've run out of naturally occurring elements. They may have once existed, but they're radioactive, and decay so quickly that there's none left on Earth, or, as far as we know, in space. Or there wasn't, rather...
A decade ago, France exported three times as much wine as all the so-called New World producers combined. Today France has been overtaken and sells about 15% less than they do. The pummeling is especially bruising on home turf: Europe now imports almost as much wine as it exports...
They may have seemed vaguely exotic a decade ago, but these days we take for granted the presence of Chilean and Argentine wines on supermarket shelves. Can any other South American wine-producing country achieve that level of international acceptance, and if so, which one? The answer may be Uruguay...