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...picking up a lot of the cassis?the black currant fruit," says Steve Skinner, the assistant winemaker at Trinity Hill Vineyard in Hawke's Bay, as he swirls a sample of almost vermilion liquid around his glass. "But I'm seeing the savory side of the bottle aging?a certain leathery character and a lot of lanolin." Travel in New Zealand and you had better learn to speak the language of vintners and wine tasters. You might find yourself chatting about Cabernet with a cabbie, and Pinot Noir with a parking attendant...
...world's newest wine-making country inevitably measures itself against its elders. "We can't and don't want to emulate Australian Shiraz," says Trinity Hill's Skinner. "We don't have the climate for it. We're focused more on a Rh?ne and a French Syrah." French wines may be the yardstick, but there's none of the secrecy or insiders-only air. Trinity prefers an educated customer and dedicates $18,000 worth of wine a year to tastings and educational sessions in their glass-and-concrete visitors hall, where discussions range from harvest dates, crushing methods, blending, filtering...
...Metrobooks/Friedman Fairfax has published "World Trade Center" by Peter Skinner (April), an unusually attractive coffee table book that memorializes the Twin Towers - not only through its content but also in its tall and narrow shape...
...Details have emerged slowly. Although the poisonings began in 1989, it wasn't until 1995 that police took notice. Soon it became clear they were dealing with a calculating serial killer, a Jack the Ripper of the canine world. That's why Chief Inspector Richard Skinner thinks the recent scrawling is a hoax, the work of a copycat. Skinner believes the real killer is not a publicity seeker, but someone wreaking methodical revenge on specific targets. "I don't think it's a lunatic just walking around wanting to kill dogs for the sake of it," Skinner says. "The person...
...expert, Helena Striwing, has become involved. She suggests the killer's target is not dogs. "He wants to hurt people," she says. "He is motivated to target and hurt the dog owners for some reason, to create misery." To that end, police offer a more prosaic premise. According to Skinner, the killer is likely annoyed by dog droppings along the footpath. "It's more probably a revenge thing," he says. "Basically, the rationale would be: 'If you're going to foul the path, then I'm going to kill the dogs...