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...make only one New Year's resolution, this should be it: ring in 2004 with a single-vineyard champagne. Ninety percent of all French bubbly is a blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir that the top brands carefully mix to ensure consistency from year to year. Single-vineyard champagnes, however, are made from just one type of grape from a single plot of land - and they're fast becoming the toast of champagne lovers everywhere. Krug Clos Du Mesnil, for instance, comes from the first pressing of Chardonnay grapes picked from a single, walled-in vineyard...
...Vegas in 1996, packed a lot of brutality and poetry into his 25 turbulent years on earth. Lauren Lazin's zippy documentary is as close as the dead can come to writing autobiography; its narration is woven from extensive interviews given by the charismatic antihero. Like a film noir epic, this is a fable of violent men, mean motives and surly patter, told in flashback, and narrated by a dead man. This artful assembly of photos, film outtakes and TV clips is all the more fascinating for being--within the confines of show-biz mythmaking--true...
Nightmare Alley as adapted by Spain (Fantagraphics Books; 2003) William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel of the midway gets the noir treatment by underground comix veteran Spain. Graphic novels don't have many adaptations from other media (except for embarrassing movie tie-ins) but this creepy, sexy freak show is one of the best. Full Review
...kickoff event last Thursday was less intuitive in its choice of pairing Harvest restaurant with the Joan Crawford film noir flick Mildred Pierce. True, the film centers on an obsessive restauranteur, but why Harvest? The tony bastion of Cambridge establishment eateries, tastefully done up in autumnal heather and beige and careful New American cuisine—and manic mother-daughter competition circa...
...type of grape matters. Though South Africa's pinotage grape handles the rigors of air travel well, Pinot Noir varietals are not considered high flyers. "But Australian Shiraz is no trouble at all," says Charles Grossrieder, catering services manager at Cathay Pacific, which serves first-class passengers Taylors St. Andrew Shiraz 1999, among others. And though we're used to thinking of champagne as delicate, it's often the least of an airline's beverage problems. Apart from a few labels, it's rarely spoiled by travel, and Cathay Pacific has no problems dispatching some of the finest bubbly available...