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...from Cruess Hall, Dinsmoor Webb, a trained chemist, heads an even bubblier enterprise: Davis' 98-year-old program of viticulture (grape production) and oenology (winemaking technology), the foremost facility and oldest department in the country.* A diminutive figure who sports dashing mixes of plaid shirts, tweed jackets and velvet bow ties, Webb reigns over 150 grape-growing acres, 14 faculty members and 155 students, all of whom have completed chemistry, physics and engineering courses before specializing in viticulture or oenology. "I think they should have a little French," says Webb, "but we don't require a foreign language...
...have eaten, overeaten, or can feel our aortas congealing into hockey pucks a la S. J. Perelman, she always has more food ready than any undernourished victim of Harvard cooking could eat in weeks. And because my grandmother is a Syrian Jew, it's delightfully exotic food--stuffed grape leaves, soups with unpronouncable names and apricot desserts. But the food aside, visiting the relatives is part and parcel of the vacation ordeal. The same recital of courses and social life is in order, with the exception that my grandmother cannot quite accustom herself to my unmarried status. She asks curiously...
...recent U.S. tour, Helmut Becker, a West German oenologist and a founder of the German Wine Academy reported: "Without doubt, the wine grape can be grown in almost all parts of the U.S., with the exception of Alaska. California's privilege to be the only vinifera grape-growing area does not exist any more. He added: "The states of Washington Oregon, Ohio, Michigan, New York Indiana, Pennsylvania and others are shaking the throne of California by competing with their fine quality and fruity wines [whose] freshness and elegance are a challenge...
Indeed, while California produces six of every ten bottles of table wine consumed in the U.S., and has doubled its production in a decade, wineries in every other grape-growing state command a fanatic following-even for the vintages that can be admired only for pricey presumptuousness. Experts believe that the good ones are here to stay; that this is in every sense, a growth industry...
...Massachusetts and Michigan are in many ways closer to the great winegrowing regions of Europe than are overheated California's. Writes Anthony Spinazzola, a wine columnist for the Boston Globe: "The greatest wine has always been made where the vine is at its extreme climatically, when the grape is right on the edge of its endurance...