Word: grapes
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...half a cheer for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, which suggests that the true heroes are those people who day by day must tend to misfits, and do so with love, tenacity and a determination not to go terminally sour in the process...
Although it costs as much as a bottle of Perrier-Jouet brut, many wine lovers will consider the new (third) edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide (Simon & Schuster; $40) an indispensable purchase. The nation's pre-eminent guru of grape, Robert M. Parker Jr., is writer-publisher of a plain-as-plonk (no ads, no pictures) bimonthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate. His trenchant opinions, as well as his still debated ratings of wine on a 100- point scale, are recycled into columns for the Prodigy computer network and Wine Enthusiast and Food & Wine magazines. They also feed...
Dunster: A none-too-spectacular 10 options. Dunster provides all the basics, with a few sweet ones thrown in. The barrel of Life was running low and the boxes of All-Bran and Grape-Nuts also seemed to experience frequent use. Following this trend, it was surprising to find no boxes of granola in the cereal area...
...GRAPE PICKERS SLOGGING THROUGH the muddy fields of Champagne's rain-moistened vineyards this harvesttime have had an unusual mission: for the first time in memory they have been told to pick fewer grapes. The decision was made by growers who, until recently, were happy to bottle anything that could conceivably qualify as champagne and sell it to an apparently insatiable public at steadily rising prices. This season, instead of aiming for the usual yield of 12,000 kilos of grapes per hectare, the pickers have been given a target of around 8,000 kilos. "It hurts the heart...
...result has been a buildup of unsold stock, which now amounts to an estimated 1 billion bottles, or more than four years' worth of sales, compared with a normal buffer stock of less than three years. By reducing the grape harvest by a third, the producers are aiming for 15 million fewer bottles. Against current surpluses, that may seem like a drop in the bucket, but it is widely viewed as a step in the right direction. The new agreement worked out by vineyard owners and union workers also provides for lowering grape prices from an all-time high...