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...entire generation of female rock performers has matured over the past two years. Maria Muldaur, 32, performed in several jug bands before splitting from her husband last year to start a separate career. She now swaggers through a repertory of Dixie soul and gospel like a raunchy roadhouse vamp, while her nine-year-old daughter watches from the wings. Bonnie Raitt, 25, a honey brunette equally at ease with Ionesco's plays or Muddy Waters' music, plays tough-mama blues, slapping her guitar strings with an old bottleneck or steel slide to produce a gutsy low-down sound...
...West Coast tycoon has sold one of his two yachts. A socially prominent Manhattan couple has switched from vintage to nonvintage champagne, while some of their affluent friends provide only California jug wine-in Waterford decanters. A Los Angeles millionairess, Elsie Pollack, now features chili at her dinner parties; another wealthy hostess has replaced cut flowers with synthetic centerpieces. A Chicago industrialist has turned in his Cadillac for a relatively miserly Mercedes 220 with a diesel engine that gets up to 32 m.p.g...
Next year promises to be a very good one for the American wine drinker, whether he selects carefully by vintage or simply enjoys a good jug now and then. French wine prices have started to drop lately from their ridiculous highs as a result of buyer resistance and an oversupply after several bountiful harvests in a row. In Manhattan, for example, Chateau Lafite '59 is retailing for about $810 a case, down from a peak of $1,600 last year. But the best news for oenophiles is that the California wine industry has also become the victim of overexpansion...
...wine made from a hybrid grape combining Cabernet Sauvignon and Carignane that sells for about $2 per fifth. Among the wines are Gallo's Ruby Cabernet and Inglenook's Navalle Ruby Cabernet. Says Inglenook Winemaster Thomas Ferrell: "We're trying to put some style into the jug wines...
Much of the 153 million gal. of California table wine consumed annually by Americans is made from plebeian grapes grown in California's hot San Joaquin Valley, blended and sold mostly by the jug. The highly cherished European wines, on the other hand-such aristocrats as Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc-are made only from selected clones whose territory and yield are as strictly regulated as a royal household and sell in general for $8 a bottle or more. In fact, vagaries of the European climate make the great vintages as costly as a Patou perfume...