Word: pomerol
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...Paris' Canal St. Martin. He claims there are no villains in his piece, but audiences might come to a different conclusion after watching Nossiter's interviews with figures representing those very forces of homogenization. High-end vintners from France to California hire Michel Rolland, a supremely confident consultant from Pomerol in the Bordeaux region, to upgrade their production. His lab can reduce a blackberry bouquet into its precise chemical constituents, and then tell the paying customer how to put them into his own vintage. After seeing the film, Rolland launched an ad hominem attack claiming Nossiter "must have grown...
...suffered through icy rains last fall. Nixon heralds the 1961 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild as the century's greatest Bordeaux; he serves it when regaling journalists in his home. Wine critic Robert Parker calls the 1961 "unyielding, too acidic, disturbingly austere and surprisingly ungenerous." Parker's pick: the 1949 Lafleur Pomerol...
...Chateau Mouton. But many discriminating connoisseurs are paying even more for a once obscure, less aristocratic wine: Chateau Petrus. Produced for more than 130 years but virtually unknown in the U.S. until the 1960s, Petrus comes not from the famed Medoc but from a region to the east called Pomerol, which used to be disdained in Bordeaux wine circles. Now Chateau Petrus commands $250 a bottle for the acclaimed 1982 vintage, making it perhaps the most expensive wine for that year on the market. Older Petrus vintages occasionally fetch more than $1,000 a bottle at auction...
...fair in Paris in 1855, hundreds of wines were classified into five levels of quality, but Petrus was not even ranked. For many decades after that, Bordeaux traders disdained Petrus and other wines from Pomerol in favor of more prized labels from the Medoc, Sauternes and Graves regions. But the 1947 Petrus was so spectacular that word of the chateau began to spread throughout France...
...wind to a point some 80 miles south of Penzance. With his course lost and his crew demoralized, Captain Peyrelongue made a suggestion. "Suppose," he said, "we break out a few bottles." Holding their glasses delicately, as connoisseurs should, between thumb and forefinger, the four voyagers sampled some Pomerol and found it good. Next morning they were fogbound...