Word: spectacularness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...answer. It's good. It's so good, in fact, that long before he'll start to bottle it, the wine is already being traded in Bordeaux for more than €50 per bottle. That's double the price his 2004 wine fetched, and 75% higher than the spectacular 2000 vintage, the best in recent memory. "If you have a wine that's in demand, you can sell it," he shrugs. In the village of Margueron an hour's drive away to the east, at Jean Charles' winery just behind the medieval church, the picture couldn't be more different...
...result is spectacular...
...already knows the answer. It's good. It's so good, in fact, that long before he starts to bottle it, the wine is already being traded for more than $60 a bottle. That's double the price his 2004 wine fetched and 75% higher than the spectacular 2000 vintage, the best in recent memory. "If you have a wine that's in demand, you can sell it," he shrugs...
...possessed an abiding sense of wonder, a reverence for life and its precious, transitory nature that could properly be described as devotional. Sometimes, as I was growing up, she would wake me up in the middle of the night to have me gaze at a particularly spectacular moon, or she would have me close my eyes as we walked together at twilight to listen to the rustle of leaves. She loved to take children - any child - and sit them in her lap and tickle them or play games with them or examine their hands, tracing out the miracle of bone...
Play out they did, and those who wondered what an Australian orchestra could possibly offer the Japanese, famously finicky in their classical music appreciation, were immediately answered in the cross-cultural fanfare of Brisbane composer Liza Lim's Flying Banner (after Wang To). And upon completion of their spectacular rendition of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, the orchestra received the kind of review money couldn't buy. Attending the opening concert in Tokyo was Crown Prince Naruhito, himself an accomplished viola player. At a supper afterwards, he sipped Australian wine while chatting with a small group of musicians. "He said...