Word: oenologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making clan. After experimenting with 140 varieties of grape, he has planted 15 acres in Carnelian, a cross between Cabernet, Grenache and Carignane. While the first bottles of his red wine will not reach their prime until 1984, a tasting of an early vintage reveals body and character. Meanwhile, Oenologist Emil and his chemist wife Joanne are making a pineapple wine they call Maui Blanc. It has a fruity aroma but, considering its origin, is a clear, reasonably dry and inexpensive ($3.99) bottle that could go as well with the sorbet as a costly sauterne...
...recent U.S. tour, Helmut Becker, a West German oenologist and a founder of the German Wine Academy reported: "Without doubt, the wine grape can be grown in almost all parts of the U.S., with the exception of Alaska. California's privilege to be the only vinifera grape-growing area does not exist any more. He added: "The states of Washington Oregon, Ohio, Michigan, New York Indiana, Pennsylvania and others are shaking the throne of California by competing with their fine quality and fruity wines [whose] freshness and elegance are a challenge...
Died. Frank Schoonmaker, 70, tastemaking oenologist and writer whose pioneering articles and books educated American palates and drew the world's attention to the then unheralded wines of California's Napa and Sonoma counties; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Schoonmaker dropped out of Princeton University in 1923 because he felt it had little to teach him, and on a visit to France began his study of vintages in the household of a wine merchant. In 1933, Harold Ross of The New Yorker commissioned Schoonmaker to write a landmark ten-article series on the wines of Europe that...
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