Word: merlots
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...stock car--in 2003--for his Bennett Lane brand,which has received 90+ scores from Wine Spectator. This year Richard Childress, owner of three Nextel Cup teams and two Busch series teams, will target first-time wine drinkers with his Childress Classic, a checkered-flag-labeled Cab Merlot. But some old-school fans like Texas racing legend A.J. Foyt aren't savoring the trend. A die-hard beer drinker, Foyt says he'll keep steering clear of wine, adding, "I've never been into crap like that...
...mastered the which-are-the-good-and-bad vintages, learned the difference between a Cabernet and a Merlot and can finally pronounce Gewürztraminer. But now the casual wine drinker has a new label to grapple with: biodynamic...
...miniskirts. Baku's billboards announce this season's store openings, including Harry Winston, Cartier and Giorgio Armani. Others offer 18.7% interest at the Bank of Baku. One evening, I watched a fashion show to open the new store of Escada, the German luxury label. Baku's rich sipped California Merlot, while models flown in from Moscow walked the makeshift runway. There are 300 apartment buildings currently under construction in Baku and 250 others have recently opened, says Elnur Asadov, a real estate agent who guides me around a new three-story mansion with an indoor swimming pool and sauna. "People...
...have been five—have covered topics like withdrawal from Iraq and global famine relief. Heavy stuff for a Friday night. Tonight’s topic: “If you were in charge of the war on terror, what would you do?” Sipping cheap Merlot from a clear plastic cup, McMillian awaits the arrival of his guests. Barely audible ’60s rock music pumps out of a pair of speakers on the mantelpiece, under which a few logs of wood sit patiently in the fireplace. But McMillian almost never uses...
...markets in the first place: their producers are bound by a plethora of strict rules. Unlike their Australian rivals, Bordeaux winemakers aren't free to grow as many grapes or make as much wine as they want; quantities are strictly limited. Moreover, they can't sell their wine as Merlot, or any other single grape variety - one of the most popular New World innovations. And under a regulation passed in the early 1990s, they are even forbidden from using their grapes to make table wine; the only production allowed in Bordeaux is of high-quality appellation d'origine contr...