Word: gals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even so, American wine consumption is relatively miniscule (1.8 gal. per person annually) compared to Italy's (30 gal.) and France's 27 gal...
...acre to plant the good vines-though the return can be bountiful: around 3,000 bottles. The further cost of fertilizing, weeding, spraying, pruning, picking, vinification and bottling makes wine a costly enterprise. Then add the investment in sophisticated equipment: a single stainless-steel 1,000-gal. vat can soak the vintner for some...
Wiederkehr was named for Johann Wiederkehr, who settled in Altus, Ark., in the 1880s because the Ozark Mountain country reminded him of his native Switzerland. Johann planted native Concords and Delawares, but in 1958 his grandson Alcuin, now 43, began experimenting with vinifera and last year sold 10,000 gal. of such wines as Cabernet Sauvignon and Gewurztraminer, some of them in his own Alpine-style restaurant...
...plus up to $50 a year, buy "vine-rights"-two vines-and are entitled to twelve bottles of Benmarl wine annually The 900 members of the société also get first choice on all other Benmarl wines. A thirsty lot, they bought up 18,000 gal last year...
...researchers who first isolated somatostatin needed nearly half a million sheep brains to produce 5 mg. (.00018 oz.) of the substance. Using their recombinant DNA technique, the California researchers required only 2 gal. of bacterial culture to obtain the same amount...