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...understand the long-term thinking and the staying power of SIA, it's worth thinking back to those wines that were chosen late last year, including a 1999 Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, a Bordeaux that retails for upwards of $130, and a 1998 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Fay Vineyard Cabernet, an $85 Californian. Neither of them will be served on SIA's new U.S. flights this year. Instead, they will be cellared until 2005 or 2006, when they will have developed the right character for drinking. --With reporting by Douglas Wong/Singapore
...tossed about by the strong bottom currents. The little sub had another close call when a small electrical fire filled the crew chamber with smoke and caused the premature release of ballast, sending the sub soaring rapidly to the surface. Even so, researchers seem unworried. Says Geologist Xavier Le Pichon, the chief French scientist: "The worst that could happen would be getting stuck under an overhanging cliff. But with three submersible craft in operation, we can come to one another...
Sotheby's rival in London, Christie's, began its 200th season with sales of old wines and steam engine and ship models. The exquisite toys brought $1 15,556 in a day; a bottle of Chateau Pichon-Longueville 1878 brought more than $5 a glass. In such a heady atmosphere, Christie's now expects that Peter Paul Rubens' The Judgment of Paris, which they first appraised as a $280 copy by Lankrink (TIME, Sept. 16), will top $225,000 when it goes on the block next month. Another newly discovered Rubens, an oil sketch...
...strictly untrue as generalizations, but most members of the Tastevin would agree that they are gross oversimplifications. Why, it is like saying that all the wines of the Medoc have intellectual bouquets--a statement that totally ignores the near bluffness of the Brainaire Ducru and the sincerity of the Pichon Longueville (doubtless due to its being a Pauillac). But to return to the Moselles: I have but recently enjoyed, in company with Mr. Leve, an Auslese Bercastler Doktor, a prince among Moselles, that was 17 years old and still displayed its fine breeding and sprightly elegance; and few indeed...
...nation's wine stocks are also depleted. Last week the auction of a late Mayfair hostess' cellar brought these smacking prices: German white wines, $240 per dozen bottles; four bottles of Cointreau, $136, and seven of orange Curagao, $160; Chateau Pichon-Longueville claret, $26 a bottle. A solid Briton knows his after-dinner ports as well as he knows Royal Navy battleships. But in the auction last week, nameless brands of port brought $88 a dozen...