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...Johannes Leitz of the Josef Leitz Winery is one of the superstars of Germany's Rheingau wine region. Based in R?desheim, a charming town of 10,000, Leitz is known for his complex, naturally made wines. According to him, the secret of German Riesling is the soil's quartz and slate. Over time, the minerals give the wines their distinctive flavors of rosewater, litchi and apricot. Heinrich Breuer of Georg Breuer Winery also makes outstanding wines the natural way. He eschews temperature control because this technique promotes fruitier wines: "It's as if your children were brought up with...
According to him, the secret of German Riesling is the soil's quartz and slate. Over time, the minerals give the wines their distinctive flavors of rosewater, litchi and apricot. Heinrich Breuer of Georg Breuer Winery also makes outstanding wines the natural way. He eschews temperature control because this technique promotes fruitier wines: "It's as if your children were brought up with no fresh air." His wines - even his Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) - are exciting. Besides having a terrific wineshop, Breuer also offers the town's best digs...
Students have also complained about the impacts of construction, saying that they are already being awakened by preliminary soil testing on the site...
...terrified some wine aficionados, who are worried 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...
...DIED. FEI XIAOTONG, 94, Chinese sociologist and anthropologist famous for documenting Chinese rural life in works such as Peasant Life in China and From the Soil; in Beijing. One of China's most distinguished and prolific scholars, Fei helped lay the foundation for sociology in China, only to fall from grace during the Cultural Revolution for studying what was considered a capitalist science. Rehabilitated, he became Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, and later served as an adviser to then-Shanghai party secretary Jiang Zemin during the 1989 student-led democracy movement...