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...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 tour through the century-old Simi winery. "Usually I feel thoroughly satiated with a subject toward the end of our assignment," she says. "Not with wine. I could file on it every week and never tire...
...reviving a then defunct champagne cellar. His Schramsberg champagne is now acknowledged to be the best produced in the nation, and last February President Nixon brought 14 cases to Peking to toast Chou Enlai. Russell Green abandoned his post as president of Signal Oil Co. to take over the Simi winery. Today it is one of the many small wineries that tend to make some of the most interesting of the California premium wines. Donn Chappellet chucked his job as president of a lucrative food-vending firm in Los Angeles in order to work on 320 acres of vineyards...
...Loben Sels, 52, turned over his asphalt business to his son and founded Oakville Vineyards in the Napa Valley, a prime wine area north of San Francisco. Russell Green gave up his $100,000-a-year job as president of Signal Oil & Gas Co. to buy the sleepy Simi Winery Co. in Healdsburg. Both Switzerland's Nestlé and Connecticut's Heublein purchased Napa Valley wineries last year. Though it can take a decade to reap any return from new vines, Widmer's Wine Cellars of New York, now controlled by mustard-making R.T. French...
...Government might try to make the ghetto a high-profit magnet. For example, it could give bigger tax write-offs for ghetto investments, cheaper loans, and guarantees simi lar to those it offers to U.S. investors in underdeveloped countries. The inducement of tax holidays made Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap a resounding success. If the business man and the Government looked at the ghetto as an underdeveloped country, they would in fact see one of the world's greatest potential markets. If black incomes were brought up to the white level, businessmen would have a new market of about...
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