Word: mouton
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...Monastics who record, then trade, every premiere of an antique film on TCM. From its airing of films from the rowdy 1930-34 period, a new genre called pre-Code entered the FOOF phrase book along with auteur and film noir. To the faithful, TCM was the Lamborghini, the Mouton Rothschild, the very Callas of movie channels. Eventually, I got to see what all the rapture was about. And yes, it changed my life. (See TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in the world...
...Antique Wine Company plans to sell collections from the other seven châteaux - Lafite to Haut-Brion, Latour to Mouton Rothschild - over the next three years. That'll give you time to save up; the Château Margaux collections cost $390,000 each. It may be "God who decides what the vintage will be like," according to Château Margaux owner Corinne Mentzelopoulos. But it's the precision of great winemakers that makes these collections worth every penny. www.antique-wine.com
...native China in a bustling dining room kitted out with Asian-inspired furnishings. Next door, the eye-catching, raw-boned interiors of Riva, www.riva-duesseldorf.de, are background to Ralf Polfers' Continental cuisine, including such standouts as saffron fish cream soup and medallions of deer calf loin with pied de mouton mushrooms, pot-roasted vegetables and fried nut dumplings...
Juan Dixon. Steve Blake. Lonny Baxter. Chris Wilcox. Byron Mouton...
...brings out menus from some of these dinners, filled with names that strike sharp pangs of envy into other oenophiles’ hearts: mature Château Montrose, Château Mouton Rothschild (each bottle now worth more than $1,000), and Château d’Yquem (which Thomas Jefferson liked so much that he bought 250 bottles for himself, plus a few more for George Washington). And these were only a part of a single dinner. Membership is limited to 14 because there are exactly 14 tasting portions in an ordinary bottle of wine...