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...winemakers need to pull away from the herd in order to survive. "Today, we've taken to using the same 30 or so varietals that can be grown in any viticultural region on the planet," says the historian of the Gaillac region's 2,000 years of ampelographic, or grape varietal, history. "If winemakers around the world keep competing with themselves, they will simply die off one after another." And why should they, he asks, when there are literally thousands of other options? "There are so many forgotten varietals of unimagined potential not used in the world...
Cheaper deals can be had at midrange hotels, like the Grape Bay Beach Hotel, where a week's stay including airfare from New York City, costs as little as $893 per person, with breakfast. The hotel is modest, but close to Bermuda's best beaches, along the southern shores. Perhaps one of the most stunning beach walks in the world is at South Shore Park, a 1.5-mile stroll between Horseshoe Bay and Warwick Long...
...have also repeatedly dumped improbable volumes of animal merde in front of state buildings, and in 2000, environmental catastrophe was narrowly averted when industrial workers angry about a plant closure in northern France dumped sulphuric acid into a drainage system that feeds a major river. Not to be outdone, grape growers in southern France have even resorted to "wine terrorism...
...frying pan • On a cinnamon roll • On a danish (this may be the same as the aforementioned cinnamon roll. Unclear) • On a fish stick • On a cat • On a moth • In an ultrasound (creepy) • In some salsa • On a grape • In a cellphone pic • On a turtle shell • In a vat of spumoni ice cream • We didn't even mention the man who's convinced that he can see the Virgin Mary in the leg wound likely suffered when he fell off his bar stool ("You can actually...
...spending. And sure, many of the controversial earmarks in the current budget bill do sound porky, like $332,500 for a school sidewalk in Franklin, Texas, or $75,000 for a Totally Teen Zone in Albany, Georgia. McCain has twittered snide comments about $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics ("quick peel me a grape"), $209,000 to improve blueberry production and efficiency in Georgia, $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa. But those earmarks sound porky because they sound wasteful, not because they were earmarked; if a Department of Education bureaucrat had approved that $332,500 expenditure...