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...downright wrong. Never chill a red wine, he decrees. In fact, most Beaujolais and some other fruity reds benefit from cool temperatures. Nixon says California's consistent climate renders vintage years virtually irrelevant as a guide to quality, a claim that would be disputed by the Napa and Sonoma vintners who suffered through icy rains last fall. Nixon heralds the 1961 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild as the century's greatest Bordeaux; he serves it when regaling journalists in his home. Wine critic Robert Parker calls the 1961 "unyielding, too acidic, disturbingly austere and surprisingly ungenerous." Parker's pick: the 1949 Lafleur...
Allan Cleland's nose grazes the grass as he stoops to draw an imaginary line between his ball and the wicket in the final round of the Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards' version of the World Croquet Championship on May 19. Ireland's Simon Williams, who the day before had been doing a fingertip push-up to calculate a similar shot, anticipates that Cleland will attempt a triple peel and, incidentally, not stain his immaculate summer whites. Australia's Cleland, like 23 of the other best players from Ireland, England, New Zealand, Canada, Australia and the U.S., has come to what some...
...matters, it is a truly coed sport where women can play men without a handicap. It is also perfect for those who are no longer thirtysomething or in perfect shape. American Croquet Association president Stan Patmor, his tailor-made plus fours obscuring a few extra pounds, has seen the Sonoma-Cutrer championships grow dramatically since he became tournament director in 1986. "The game works for everyone -- old, young, fit, not so fit. It's beautiful to watch, and it's beautiful to play...
Still, with upkeep of a 105-ft. by 84-ft. lawn running about $4,000 a year and a set of croquet equipment costing as much as $3,500, the sport's appeal to the masses is limited. The court at Sonoma-Cutrer, built on 16 in. of sand from Bodega Bay, is mowed three times a day during the tournament to exactly three-sixteenths of an inch by lawn-mower blades with the precision of Ginsu knives and then groomed with a metal comb by a greenkeeper. The dependable sogginess that keeps British courts so lush is helped along...
Legal expatriates often find their training helpful in consulting, banking, accounting and many other fields. Attorney Donald Carano and a partner acquired eight vineyards in Sonoma County, Calif., in 1985. Says Carano, now the general manager of the Ferrari-Carano Winery: "Law provides the grounds for a natural evolution to business...