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...Chateau Haut-Brion 1919?...
...only flaw in a perfect gastronomic symphony. The Chateau Haut-Brion of 1919 is definitely to light for the true connoisseurs of such heroic, full-bodied, red grands vins, and a surprising number of bottles of this year have not kept well...
...eagle hangs on the dining room walls and the imperial crown is on the porcelain. Loyal Frau Anna often allowed princes and archdukes to stay at Sacher's rent free. No rooms were ever available at Sacher's for tourists whom Frau Anna did not consider sufficiently haut...
...soup, Moselle with the fish, and then we should really begin-we should start drinking clarets!" If to some tyros "claret" means the cheapest sort of vinegary red wine, it means to the initiate a splendorous ascending scale of Bordeaux reds, culminating in massive, regal Châateau Haut-Brion and finally in sublime Chateau Lafite, a wine possessing so grand a flavor and bouquet as to make mere Champagne an anticlimax. After recovering from the ecstacy of sniffing and sipping red Chateau Lafite. however, Mr. George Reeves-Smith likes to end with a white Chateau Yquem, "the sweetest, most...
...members of the British House of Commons made an astounding insinuation last week-that the private Belgian concern, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, which manufactures 90% of the world's radium under Belgian Government control, was restricting that valuable metal's production. The Belgian pitchblende mines, whence the related radium, polonium and lead are refined, are at Katanga, Belgian Congo. Those mines have far outdistanced the Jackinov mines in Czechoslovakia where Becquerel and the Curies got their first pitchblende supplies. Other, but at present little used, sources of radium are autunite deposits in Portugal, betafite deposits in Madagascar...