Word: mouton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most famous fine French wines have traditionally come from the Medoc, a region north of Bordeaux. True wine lovers think nothing of paying $80 for a 1982 bottle of Chateau Lafite or Chateau Mouton. But many discriminating connoisseurs are paying even more for a once obscure, less aristocratic wine: Chateau Petrus. Produced for more than 130 years but virtually unknown in the U.S. until the 1960s, Petrus comes not from the famed Medoc but from a region to the east called Pomerol, which used to be disdained in Bordeaux wine circles. Now Chateau Petrus commands $250 a bottle...
TIME's food critic Mimi Sheraton secured a bottle of new-vintage Coca-Cola, currently scarcer than a 1934 Mouton-Rothschild, and tasted it against old- style Coke and Pepsi-Cola. Her report...
...20th, absolutely everything. And prices? There is no limit." France has a wide variety of luxuries, and despite the new exchange rates, Parisian prices too remain pretty luxurious. As one survivor puts it, "Paris has gone from the ridiculous to the merely exorbitant." For oenophiles who have graduated from Mouton Cadet (price: $3), the Bordeaux to search for is Chateau Petrus, which sells out as soon as it is available, at $120 to $150 a bottle. And while many French wines are no cheaper in France than they are in the U.S., one of the top shippers in Bordeaux...
Every year since 1945, Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, one of the world's greatest wines, has enhanced its name by decorating its labels with the work of the greatest artists of the time, from Picasso to Chagall. A number of smaller American vineyards have now taken label decoration a step further: emphasizing the artwork over the maker's name. Styles include art nouveau, abstract and realistic; at least one vineyard is putting photography on labels. Zaca Mesa uses several styles, clothing some of its varietals with twin panels of golden oaks and distant hills. Says Ream...
...university education. It was announced this spring that the results of next year's bacs would not include the traditional levels of distinction, such as "very good" or "good." To many French educators, watering down the bac is as outrageous as watering down a Château Mouton-Rothschild. Says Guy Bayet, president of the university professors' association: "The bac is the only way you can oblige students to follow a program and acquire basic knowledge. Now that it has been devalued or so-called broadened, all we need...