Word: pinot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freemark Abbey Pinot Chardonnay...
...three weeks she toured vineyards throughout California, talking to the men behind the new domestic boom. While little old winemakers long ago evolved into modern businessmen, she found that they remain the most convivial of hosts. She shared a meal of wild boar and vintage Pinot with a vintner in Sonoma, and sipped her way through 33 Cabernets at a tasting session in Buena Vista. She was guest at a château-size winery in the Napa Valley as well as a 10,000-acre vineyard near Monterey, and in the Alexander Valley she was led on a midnight...
...smoothly as the Pinot, however. "Certainly the most difficult and maddening part of the reporting," Delaney admits, "was the pursuit of the elusive Ernest Gallo, who guards his private and business life only slightly less zealously than Howard Hughes." Only after he had assured himself of her seriousness and expertise did Gallo grant his first interview in a decade...
...France is taking no chances that the fast-rising California vintners will post a new American challenge. France imposes the Common Market's 25?-a-bottle tax on U.S. wine, and bars entry of California wines with French place names, like Burgundy or Pinot de la Loire. By contrast, U.S. tariffs on wine imports are only about 7½? a bottle, and nontariff restrictions are practically nonexistent. California lobbyists are trying to persuade the Treasury to require that imports be sold in standard American-sized wine bottles of 4/5 quart (25.6 oz.). European wines usually come...
...Beaulieu Pinot Chardonnay...