Word: oakes
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Until recently, those wines, grown without pesticides and fermented with natural yeast, were a niche specialty appreciated mainly by a small if passionate following of wine geeks. Vintners who make traditional wines, including many of those labeled organic, use a variety of tools and ingredients--oak products, manufactured yeasts, enzymes, defoaming agents and other chemical additives--to influence the flavor and texture of their product, whether it be a $10 jug or a $100 bottle. Natural wines, on the other hand, are created by winemakers who take an artisanal approach to what they produce, basing their decisions in the vineyard...
PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif—“Is it herbal?” “Maybe it’s just a grassy flavor.” “The finish is too acidic.” “I taste oak...
...thought of the things you enjoy when you stay with friends," says Hunter, "swhether it's the little touches they put in your room, a great meal or a cold drink on the terrace." Guest rooms are tastefully opulent: plush pink, red and orange fabrics, modern dark-oak furniture, Egyptian cotton sheets and bespoke artwork. But the details feel like home: a chess set on the table, candles by the bathtub, books you might actually read and a welcome bag with a little rubber duck inside. If you can pull yourself away from the Bang & Olufsen entertainment center, the hotel...
...Guest rooms are tastefully opulent: plush pink, red and orange fabrics, modern dark-oak furniture, Egyptian cotton sheets and bespoke artwork. But the details feel like home: a chess set on the table, candles by the bathtub, books you might actually read and a welcome bag with a little rubber duck inside. If you can pull yourself away from the Bang & Olufsen entertainment center, the hotel's swanky Cerise restaurant serves a modern European menu using local ingredients, and the bartender makes a mean mojito. It's been said one should never mix business with pleasure. Whoever said that...
JOSHUA KLEIN Oak Park...