Word: fouquier
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Socialites of Manhattan's swank Brook Club tendered a test dinner last week to one of the chief arbiters of French wine elegance. M. le Baron Marcel Fouquier is president of the Academic des Oenophiles (wine lovers) which yields in dignity and discrimination not even to the Academic Francaise...
...More to Brookish people's point is the fact that M. le Baron Fouquier has under compilation an exhaustive Wine Gotha or Who's Who among French vintages. Next year the Academic des Oenophiles will publish this Wine Gotha with its august imprimatur. Last week their president dictated a skeleton summary of French "good years," emphasizing that they apply only to the grand vin or superior grades of wine, particularly those bottled at the chateau. Good years, with the best in italics...
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