Word: sonoma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...position drive is a follow-up to the December 3 demonstration against drug trafficking and crime on Sonoma street, which is notorious as a crossroad for drug dealers. The First Church of God in Boston is organizing the petition campaign...
Signed to play the Queen Mother in the TV movie Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance, Olivia de Havilland, 66, added a little plump to her circumstances, a net gain of 10 Ibs. to be exact. The film over, the actress weighed in at the tony Sonoma Mission Inn near San Francisco for three weeks. There, in return for $4,725, she got 800 calories a day and a dawn-to-dusk dose of warmups, aerobics, slimnastics and martial-arts classes, plus visits to the Jacuzzi and herbal wraps (using herb-soaked Irish linen sheets). Olivia's gross loss...
...grapes used for bubbly and no legal prohibitions against calling their product champagne, U.S. wine makers, mostly in California, have for many years been producing sparkling wines that compare well with some of the good French vintages; some are made by the French methode champenoise. Last October, for example, Sonoma County's venerable F. Korbel & Bros, introduced a dry, delicate, straw-colored Blanc de Blancs that drew critical raves at blind tastings. It costs around $16-no steal, but less than the price of a comparable imported bottle...
...about $12 a bottle (vs. around $24 for imported Moët & Chandon), plans to produce 5 million bottles annually. By comparison, its parent, Moët-Hennessy, shipped 2.6 million bottles to the U.S. in 1981. Another French firm, Piper-Heid-sieck, has started a California winery with Sonoma Vineyards and will release its first wines in late...
...anybody with a ready stash of cash can become ensnared in freebasing, as is shown by the experience of Mary (not her real name), 25, the owner of a dog kennel in Sonoma County, Calif. Mary was appalled when her brother, manager of an auto-parts store, sold his car, quit his job and began obsessively freebasing. Despite her concern, she tried it too and soon became just as hooked...