Word: muscatel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last but not least are two different winos I've known. The first one, an elderly gent, insisted on singing every Ray Charles song he knew at the top of his lungs--and off key. Clutching his muscatel for dear life, he fought off three conductors and a plain-clothes cop until the train reached the next station, whereupon wino and muscatel went flying out the door. The other wino was the more genteel type--and she kept me company from D.C. to New York last Christmas. She was a sweet old Southern lady--74 years old, she kept telling...
Like a fine muscatel, the 35-woman squad has improved with age and experience in its initial season. Scalise, who receives no remuneration in the Radcliffe soccer post while doubling as Harvard freshman soccer coach, has de-emphasized the "winning is everything" approach...
DURING her childhood in Wisconsin, recalls Patricia Delaney, wine was a holiday treat, sticky-sweet muscatel reserved for family gatherings at Christmas. Her appreciation of what Ben Jonson called the milk of Venus broadened a bit during her travels as a TIME correspondent: in London the cellar of Justerini & Brooks was downstairs from her office. While reporting for this week's cover story on American wines, Delaney became a connoisseur of magnum-size skills...
...population growth. Sales gained 10% in 1969 and another 13% last year, to 265 million gallons. Wine makers are particularly heartened because Americans have taken to drinking wine with meals. For the first time since Prohibition, table wines in 1969 outsold sweet wines such as sherry, port and muscatel in the U.S. California produces 75% of the wine consumed in the nation and 85% of the U.S. output. Grapes have become the state's largest cash crop (ahead of tomatoes and cotton), and the price of land in choice viticultural areas has doubled in the past five years...