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When David Andrew was growing up on the west coast of Scotland, sipping fine wine was about as popular as polo. Real men preferred an amber shot of Glen something. But Andrew's parents introduced him to French wine at age 10, and he tasted his first Chateau Margaux as a teenager, liking it so much, he wrote to the vineyard asking for a grape-picking job--which he landed. After a career that included a stint as an actor in TV ads, Andrew, 40, is now a celebrity in the wine trade: he is the top buyer for Costco...
With sales of $600 million in its past fiscal year, the warehouse giant has become America's unlikely leader in retail wine sales, and it isn't hawking just $8 jugs. Costco sells more fine wine than anyone else, and doing so has become a key part of its strategy to lure more upscale shoppers. Someone who spots a deal on a 1993 Dom Perignon ($80) may also pick up a pair of Waterford goblets for $60. Exploiting such buying patterns has helped Costco to push its average checkout ticket to $109, compared with $60 to $80 at competing warehouse...
...government enforces the penalties for noncompliance with data-security laws. "People we've talked to are waiting until the last minute, because they just don't have the budgets," says Josh Pennell, president of IOActive, a security-engineering firm. "It could be cheaper for them to incur the fine" than to pay $100,000 to $1 million for an adequate information-security system. As things stand today, breaking into health-care databases, Pennell says, "would be a trivial thing...
...setting, there’s not much beyond linoleum, track-lighting and wooden tables to recommend Dado as a hip venue. But, even so, it’s hard to fight the attraction of a fine tea. Maybe it’s the clean taste. Maybe it’s the warmth that a cup sends radiating from deep inside. Or maybe it’s just the new-age charm of being the kind of together person who finds an hour each afternoon to sip, smile and unwind. Buddhist monks have made the time for centuries, so why shouldn?...
Tina: Hang gliding, synchronized swimming, ping-pong. I think he enjoys foreign films, it just seems he has fine taste—he must like very good food, something exotic...