Word: merlot
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...MERLOT "A step away from rose; sulfur; kerosene; a hint of strawberry; bland." --Glenn Vogt, general manager, Windows on the World
...compote, and escargots oozing with butter. The second course was a triumph: lightly sauteed soft-shell crabs and an arctic char my table-mate dubbed "a sort of impetuous little salmon" (a comment that makes abolutely no sense, but he'd had a couple of glasses of very good Merlot at that point...
Shortly after the plane took off (an hour late), my flight attendant appeared with a food tray laden with warm bread, real-butter pats shaped like flowers, chicken with black-bean salsa and fresh fruit. I washed this down with a Fetzer Eagle Peak Merlot and topped it all off with chocolate truffles. I fired up the TV in the seat back--all 24 channels worked fine--and entertained myself by flipping through everything from ESPN Classic to CNNfn. I called my office from the armrest phone, then plugged in my computer...
...hour three, nursing a Merlot in the far-left stall, I staggered out to see a guy with slicked-back hair tell another guy he hoped he was going to the DreamWorks party because he was "the only fun guy here." But then some bearded guy attached to Topsy-Turvy leaned in and said, "Hey, I take offense at that." They ignored him. Topsy-Turvy is the math club of the Oscars...