Word: tuscans
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...fantasized while traveling in a foreign country of snapping up some irresistible piece of real estate--a Tuscan farmhouse, Scottish castle or Argentine ranch--and beginning a whole new life that combines just the right mix of adventure and tranquility? If I lived here, you say to yourself, I could enjoy myself so much that I would stay young forever. Of course, returning home usually brings you back to reality: early retirement seems so far off, family and friends are too dear to desert, the logistics are unmanageable...
Geddes is doing more in America than getting mentioned in magazines. In 1995 he engineered the first Italian-American joint venture with California's Mondavi, a fifty-fifty partnership in which the two companies jointly hold the Luce della Vite corporation, which owns two Tuscan estates. A shared board develops marketing and distribution strategies, and winemakers from each company collaborate on the wines. The resulting lines are designed to compete at three different price levels, an essential for mass competition in the global market. Luce is made from a blend of Sangiovese and Merlot grapes grown entirely in Montalcino...
...quite foolish. But all was not lost. This faux pas is a lesson for every Harvard man: woe to he who deigns to venture outside the delightful Yard cloister that shields him from the unseemly. Notwithstanding my minor indiscretion, it was a chance to, eyes shut, luxuriate in the Tuscan bliss that each glass invariably affords. One can only be so happy as to have Chianti pursue the more remote and nebulous regions of the palate...
...Paolo De Marchi, the producer of Isole e Olena, places among the top winegrowers in Italy. His echt classico is a wine of fine breeding: the unimposing structure yields uncommon class and elegance. The outspoken Tuscan character imposingly projects the overall gestalt. Its pièce de resistance is clearly the bouquet of red berries, dark cherries, black currants and vanilla. It has a varietal twang and an agreeable consistency of flavor and aroma...