Word: teau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many professional critics call steely-haired, iron-willed Joe Heitz, 58, one of America's two or three best wine makers. His 1970 Cabernet Sauvignon knocked off the fabled Château Latour, Château Lafite Rothschild and other French pedigrees in some blind tastings. When French experts sent him a praising letter, he wrote back: "Why don't you lower your import barriers?" The visitor gets the idea that Heitz would have done well even if he were making caps or car wax instead of wine...
...Paris, the unsuspecting tourist may wander into a deceptively simple-looking restaurant and pay $20 for a plate of fresh asparagus and $217 for a bottle of Château Latour '55. The Paris Sheraton, which on the luxury scale is about equivalent to a better-class U.S. motel, charges $90 a night for a double room. At a top restaurant in Venice or Rome, an a la carte meal for two will cost up to $50 without cocktails or wine. A room for two at a first-class hotel averages about $35 a night...
Today that life is divided comfortably between a weekend château near Tours and an apartment on the fashionable Rue de Rivoli, where Salinger lives and writes with his second wife Nicole and their son Gregory, 11. Though he learned the language of diplomacy from his French-born mother and grandmother as a boy in San Francisco ("If you didn't speak French in our house, you didn't eat"), he does his columns in English, then approves a L'Express translation...
...paintings and 60 drawings have been assembled from the world's collections. Some things, of course, one cannot hope for: the Louvre would never lend any of the giant canvases from Rubens' Marie de Médicis cycle, any more than his landscape The Cháteau de Steen in Autumn could be expected to travel from London or the Hélène Fourment in a Fur Cloak from Vienna. Still, this is the most concentrated view of Rubens, set in one place, that will ever be seen...
Those who prefer martinis or soft drinks think beer drinkers are just a bunch of mugs. In fact, the true beer drinker is just as great a connoisseur as any sampler of Château Lafite. Beer tastings are a commonplace in almost every town that offers more than one beer to have when you're having more than one. In addition to domestic products, consumers check out the great German and Dutch prizewinners (some 6,000 local brews are available in those beer-loving nations), the Czech Pilsner, which many consider the world's finest, plus imports...