Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Martha's Vineyard with Palm Trees...
...shrugged off as yet another media-hyped Dr. Feelgood. But in France, the former pharmaceutical-company executive has made a mint telling Gallic gourmands what they want to hear. His empire, dubbed "La Galaxie Montignac," is an $11 million-a-year business with a chain of food boutiques, a vineyard producing Chateau Michel Montignac Bordeaux, a mail-order firm selling Montignac foie gras and Montignac chocolate, a quarterly magazine, an Institute of Vitality and Nutrition through which 350 physicians prescribe his method, and a company offering one- day diet seminars for corporate executives at $420 a head. Last October, Montignac...
GRAPE PICKERS SLOGGING THROUGH the muddy fields of Champagne's rain-moistened vineyards this harvesttime have had an unusual mission: for the first time in memory they have been told to pick fewer grapes. The decision was made by growers who, until recently, were happy to bottle anything that could conceivably qualify as champagne and sell it to an apparently insatiable public at steadily rising prices. This season, instead of aiming for the usual yield of 12,000 kilos of grapes per hectare, the pickers have been given a target of around 8,000 kilos. "It hurts the heart...
...three years. By reducing the grape harvest by a third, the producers are aiming for 15 million fewer bottles. Against current surpluses, that may seem like a drop in the bucket, but it is widely viewed as a step in the right direction. The new agreement worked out by vineyard owners and union workers also provides for lowering grape prices from an all-time high of 32 francs ($5.66) per kilo to 20.50 francs ($3.62) per kilo, which should make the price of a bottle of this year's French champagne more attractive for most consumers...
President Clinton finished his Martha's Vineyard vacation and immediately returned to the task of solving all the country's problems. In September he is scheduled to present Vice President Gore's proposals for reinventing government, then press for the passage of NAFTA and then announce a complete overhaul of the U.S. health-care system...