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...finest cuisine of Venice, Paris, and Kyoto all at once. The cultured atmosphere and fine dining cannot be matched by any other venue, as every Phoenix member is in training to become a gourmet chef. Though each member has a regional specialty, ideas flow as easily as the Pinot Grigio and fusion is the norm. It is not atypical to hear, "I'm trying a cilantro boeuf glazed with a light sherry and Napa Asparagus. Can you make sure that flank we selected is kosher?" The Phoenix does not accept reservations for groups under...
Then there are the wines. The Cape's staple white is Chenin Blanc, but the Sauvignon Blancs--sometimes oak matured--are achieving high points in world ratings. Locals will say that if you haven't tasted South Africa's distinctive national red, known as Pinotage, a grape cross of Pinot Noir and Cinsaut, then you haven't yet lived...
Before descending into the depths of internet weirdness, it's important to make a couple of distinctions. First off, about half of the responses to the "noir" web search were wine-related sites, dedicated to connoisseurs of the pinot noir vintage. Of the remaining 800 sites, maybe one fourth were French web sites simply using the word in its native context--for example "le rinoceros noir," an informative page dedicated to the black rhino. That leaves approximately 600 sites related to the conventional idea of noir, and of those sites, the majority were fairly ordinary, academically or intellectually-oriented pages...
...Club, for example, publish newsletters that provide subscribers with discounts on newly released wines and "library" selections of wines in limited production. Sterling, which is owned by Seagram's, recently offered its club members two new Italian wines that the company represents and markets in the U.S.: a white Pinot Grigio and a red Sangiovese. "We're trying to 'loyalize' our customers," says Samuel Bronfman II, president of Seagram's Classics Wine Co. "We also want to introduce them to different tastes...
...After cocktails in the Red Room, the 24 or so participants, including Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, sat down at a horseshoe-shaped table for elegantly served courses of mushroom soup, venison and wild rice, accompanied by Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Since it was a seminar as well as a dinner, guest experts talked while the others ate, giving prepared comments on the future of NATO, postelection politics in Russia and the economic stagnation across Europe...