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...that the globalizing wine market will become defined by dumbed-down wines, homogenized for simple American taste buds. To purists, a wine's flavors should be determined by terroir--the taste of the land where the grapes grow, the minerals in the soil, the amount of sun, wind and rain to which the grapes are exposed. "Authenticity is important," says Italian enologist Stefano Chioccioli. "We already have China invading us with products with no history. Wine is the fruit of man, but it is connected to the terroir. It is important to maintain that sense of differentiation...
...gold paper and flanked by old newspaper pages, flyers, and books as well as a 2003 bottle of Oz wine and some tape. A textbook entitled “Plastics Engineering Handbook: Third Edition” paid a grateful homage to the plastic tarp thrown over the table as rain protection. Flyers came from the Cambridge and Allston area, including a Banks Street crime report and an ad for the “Bottles and Cans: Allston Redemption Center...
...artful worth or perhaps because they were unable to distinguish it from the growing heap of real trash sprouting around it. Maybe it was too cleverly camouflaged by the camera equipment and electrical wires that a careless festival employee had stashed under the table as a haven from the rain. Clearly, he did not see the artistic value of trash...
Some objects are never meant to be found. And some should be featured prominently. Alas, these found objects deserved a more fitting destiny—either a proper burial in the adjacent trash can or a visible pedestal, not the ignominy of rain-soaked silence...
Those who stayed behind contended with typical Boston chill wind and rain at the Geiger Trophy, hosted by MIT. The regatta put sailors in four divisions launching Flying Juniors, Rhodes-19s, and single- and double-handed Tech dinghies. Harvard’s compliment finished sixth of six, a slight four points behind...