Word: grapes
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...Amiata. The whole ambience was distilled in the Brunello I was drinking. Seeing my red-wine-stained teeth, a friend handed me some freshly plucked sage leaves and instructed me to rub my teeth clean with them. "Old custom," he said. It worked! Brunello, made from the Sangiovese Grosso grape, is often referred to as Chianti on hormones - it's bigger, bolder and pricier. The Biondi-Santi winery in Montalcino is credited with making the first Brunello around 1888, and the firm still produces a glorious version. But it took two winemaking brothers from Long Island, New York, John...
...chillax. Don't go splashing your bust a grape mozzarella on Britneys, hench - pick up two new nang Richard Snaries. The dope Cassell's Dictionary of Slang is dropped on Nov. 17. Five days later hail the buttery New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Flummoxed? Unless you happen to be a British teenager, it will take you a brow-furrowing few seconds to translate that into the Queen's English. If you want some help, click here or holler for your kids. Many teens in the U.K. have a fluent command of Blinglish, a melding of West Indian...
...from fruit grown in the same places--in California, France, Italy and other wine regions--that professional wineries use. Just follow the directions, and in four to six weeks you can be uncorking wine from your own château or apartment. To move beyond kits to get the whole grape-stomping experience, you have to spend at least an additional $400 to buy the basics: grape crusher, strainer, press and barrel...
...Cortez (actually, it was fat Balboa) beheld has become the Pacific Rim, and out over the horizon the Sandwich Islands have turned into an American state, Hawaii, where men may marry each other now. American fast food will gobble up China. The planet contracts to the size of a grape...
Fall is also grape harvest time, and grapes in the lower 48 states are ready for stomping. Check with state tourism boards for local crush and wine-tasting festivals like the Shenandoah Valley Hot Air Balloon & Wine Festival, Oct. 14 to 16, or the Loose Goose Wine Festival in California's Santa Clarita Valley...