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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...
Here's the scenario: a guest arrives at your house with a fine bottle of Pinot Grigio that you suddenly realize is--gasp!--room temperature. No problem. Just add ice and water to your Cooper Cooler ($80), plug it in, and in about six minutes the wine will be perfectly chilled. Now, to open the bottle, grab the battery-powered corkscrew from Select Brands ($25; a rechargeable version is available for $50), press a button, and with almost no effort on your part, the cork comes free. A productivity gain that everyone can applaud...
...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...
...attending are slim, if last year is anything to go by - the 10,500 tickets for the 2002 event sold out in less than an hour. Console yourself with the Great Fitzroy Mussel Fest (a vast mussel bake on Great Barrier Island on Jan. 10, 2004), or Wellington's Pinot Noir 2004 - a taste-and-talk fest for lovers of the trendy varietal from Jan. 28-Jan. 31. The Hawkes Bay Festival (Feb. 6-Feb. 9) sees open house, if not open bar, at 25 wineries in the country's best-known wine region, plus a program of supporting events...
...reading, however. After the discussions end, mothers and sons separate to gab and hang out. "If we just got up at the end of the book discussion and left," says Joan Grossbart, mother of Matt, 13, "it would be a very different group." Besides, who would finish off the Pinot Grigio and popcorn...