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...third wine was probably the best red I’ve ever tasted, a 1992 Château Montalena (a famous Napa Valley winery). The nose was complex, hinting at everything from grass to pepper. The wine itself tasted of subtle herbs with full tannins. What was most interesting was how it opened up with oxidation and food. I dug into my steak au poivre and swished the wine around the glass, and all of a sudden a bouquet of hitherto-absent garden flowers opened in my glass, demanding the attention of my entire palate...
...exhibition, "Passion for Art, Passion for Wine," will draw from private collections around Bordeaux and include works by Pablo Picasso, Niki de Saint-Phalle and Bernard Pagès. Visitors thus get a chance to both taste and see how wine producers and art collectors like Château Mouton Rothschild's Philippe de Rothschild spend their money. This year's guest of honor is Bordeaux's Japanese sister city, Fukuoka, and with good reason. While dwindling domestic consumption and increasing foreign competition have provoked the French wine industry's worst sales crisis in decades, wine consumption in Japan...
...publicity whore when it comes to the Queen," she says. Sweet Nostalgia Marie-Antoinette never suggested that the poor should "eat cake," but that hasn't stopped confectioner Ladurée from creating a Marie-Antoinette collection of its pastel-colored macaroons. Theme Queen In July, the Château de Versailles reveals a Marie-Antoinette "domain." A spokesman promises "the rediscovery of the intimate Marie-Antoinette" in her bucolic former refuge. Tempus Fugit Swiss watchmaker Breguet is recreating the n?160. The watch - originally commissioned for Marie-Antoinette by a mystery admirer - incorporated every horological complication in existence. N?160...
...even prefigured the multiracial family of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie by adopting 12 children from varying ethnic backgrounds, affectionately dubbing them her "Rainbow Tribe." As part of the Cent Ans de la Dame tour, Baker's eldest son, Akio Bouillon, is scheduled to greet guests at the Château des Milandes - Baker's Dordogne mansion and a highlight of the eight-day itinerary. Tour participants will also attend all-day celebrations at the Village des Milandes on June 3, and spend several days exploring the diva's favorite Parisian haunts. In a city where racial tensions have recently flared...
...Magazine's new "Funny Pages" feature--in addition to The Daily Show and the sequel to Expertise he's writing. "Like Tintin, I'm not one to turn down a good adventure," says Hodgman. "Even when my drunken sailor companion begs me to just stay home in the château for once...