Word: teau
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...lucky enough to be enjoying lunch in the hillside Provençal village of Bonnieux you can't do better than to order a bottle of pale pink Château La Canorgue, made just outside the village. Though the days when rosé was scorned are gone, the good stuff tends not to travel, and there's still some not-so-good stuff around (Saddam Hussein was said to be fond of Mateus rosé, a vestige of the bad old days). But now rosé is making a bid for the mainstream, as winemakers try to anticipate...
...Sunday afternoons; Metro: Villiers), where vendors offering cheese, roast chicken and mounds of seasonal fruits and vegetables are nestled among bakeries, clothing stores and wine specialists. Now that autumn is upon us, the stalls are filled with squash, delicate mushrooms and soft purple figs. Next to the Château Rouge Metro station in the 18th arrondissement is the Marché Dejean (8 a.m.-7 p.m. daily, closed Mondays and Sunday afternoons). The surrounding neighborhood is home to a diverse mix of peoples, making this the market to come to for African and Caribbean staples. Tropical fruit and chili peppers...
...Cafe Laumer Try the famous Frankfurter Kranz, a ring-shaped butter-cream gâteau garnished with candied cherries and chopped caramelized nuts at Café Laumer at 67, Bockenheimer Landstrasse, the favorite haunt of philosopher-sociologist Theodor Adorno. www.cafe-laumer.de...
...breaking down the empire piece by piece. Out went the cluster of Internet ventures that never lived up to their hype, the book and magazine publishers for which Messier overpaid, and the water utility that was once the company's core. Even its 18th century French manse, Château de Méry-sur-Oise, about 50 km northwest of Paris, is on the block. Last week came the blockbuster spin-off, as Fourtou woke the company from Messier's Technicolor dream of becoming a major player in Hollywood. After an epic four-month auction among many...
...that went for $5.3 million. A week earlier, a Degas statue of a 14-year-old dancer from his collection fetched $10.3 million. A week later, Christie's in London raised €1.3 million from an unprecedented clearance sale of vintage wine from his legendary Bordeaux vineyard, Château Latour, including bottles dating back to 1863. And those are just the auctions. On the same day the wine went under the hammer, Artémis - the Pinault family's holding company - issued j520 million in bonds that it said was to be used to refinance existing bank debt. That...