Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spends his free time tending his tomato garden on Martha's Vineyard. In this era of e-mail, he bangs out his column on a typewriter. His friends praise his delicious plum jelly...
Lewis is married to Margaret H. Marshall, a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The couple divide their time between Cambridge and Martha's Vineyard...
During his all-too-rare free time, Lewis treasures more relaxed past-times: raising vegetables on the Vineyard, listening to music and writing letters. He doesn't even own a computer, Greenhouse says...
...that overlooks the city is another world. A 45-minute drive from Cape Town will place you amid European scenery, blue mountains, farm boundaries of fir and wattle, wide sheltered valleys and a climate that is virtually Mediterranean. The Paarl ("pearl" in Afrikaans) region, largest of the country's vineyard areas, is at the southern-hemisphere latitude equivalent of Spain's renowned Sherry region. Visitors to Constantia, Paarl and Stellenbosch have no difficulty recalling parts of France, Italy, Bavaria, Switzerland and even California's Napa Valley...
...expanded its traditional, highly regulated, conservative marketing base and drawn in Germans, French, Swiss, Italians. Russians and Californians as investors in South African grapes. Some of the leading Cape estates now boast European winemakers; Zelma Long and Phil Freese, well known in Sonoma, Calif., are in a joint vineyard venture with Michael Back, owner of Backsberg, a top South African estate. At least one prestigious California wine company is hoping to buy a Paarl farm. A score or so of local wine farmers have taken notable steps to democratize what has for centuries been an almost feudal system (historic slave...