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DIED. VERA ZORINA, 86, star ballerina turned Hollywood actress of the 1930s and '40s; in Santa Fe, N.M. Born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Berlin, she was married for eight years to George Balanchine, who choreographed her performances as a sultry nymph in the 1938 film The Goldwyn Follies, the angel in the Broadway musical I Married an Angel and the lead muse in his 1943 ballet, Apollo...
...Generation-X imbibers, the perfect wine combines Bordeaux quality with Boone's Farm prices--and don't forget the hip label design. Which is why Laura Hartwig may become a very popular woman. She's the matron--and the face on the label--of the three-year-old Santa Laura winery in Chile's Colchagua Valley. The vineyard's Cabernet Sauvignons are full of lavish spice and berry flavors, with pleasant touches of vanilla and chocolate, all for just $10 a bottle. Chilean wines like Hartwig's are in demand at Wine Brats, a Gen-X club in Santa Rosa...
Chile's new wine boom has been sparked by an upsurge in boutique vineyards like Santa Laura. Unlike many traditional Chilean winemakers, the Hartwig family, which runs the winery, disdains exaggerated harvests that compromise grape quality and makes earnest use of stainless-steel vat technology. The Hartwigs also take more care than is usual in Chile to master their terroir--making soil, climate and grape work in richer harmony. Similar attention is being paid in other newer wineries like MontGras, Carmen and Veramonte, which is bottling Chile's hot new grape, a Merlot cousin called Camenere...
...they've done it while keeping prices low. "California seems to assume people only want a Mercedes from quality wine," says Santa Laura manager Alejandro Hartwig Jr. "This doesn't have to be an elitist commodity." The question is whether that attitude will change--and spoil the original lure of Chilean wines. "I almost hate to praise them," says Waugh. "I'm afraid it will drive their prices...
...will probably never be known why bags of ammunition designed for the ship's 16-in. guns ignited during loading, creating the inferno in which the men died. And despite Kelso's expression of regret that Hartwig was blamed for the incident "without clear and convincing proof," his family is not dropping a $40 million lawsuit against the Navy for soiling the dead man's name...