Word: vineyarder
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...economy sours and the job pool dries up, it may come as some small comfort that there is at least one potential employer who is still willing to wine and dine in order to lure potential employees. Cakebread Cellars, a vineyard in Napa Valley, recently invited 10 members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Wine and Cuisine Society to spend their intersession in California to entice them to pursue careers in the wine-making industry. It seems that Cakebread Cellars is capitalizing on the fact that it’s just hard to say “no?...
...item on the increased use of screw tops instead of corks for wine bottles mistakenly referred to Bonny Doon's $130 Cabernet [Your Time, Dec. 30-Jan. 1]. Bonny Doon does not produce a Cabernet or any $130 wine. Our reference should have been to the PlumpJack Vineyard's $145 screw-top Cabernet...
...Group, her family's industrial and financial conglomerate, based in Istanbul. Under her watch, the division has entered Latin America and the Middle East and become No. 1 in its industry. Operations in China and Indonesia are to start this year. Sabanci spends her free time tending her small vineyard in western Turkey...
Indian casinos are overloading other communities across the country. One exacerbating factor: because of tribal sovereignty, if a casino overwhelms local emergency services, draws down the local water supply or pollutes the environment, local authorities have no recourse. Tom Frederick, who owns a small vineyard north of the casino, found that out the hard way. For years, as sewage from the casino seeped onto his property, he tried to get the Rumsey Indians to deal with the problem. Recently the waste-water drainage slowed when the tribe relined a sewage-holding pond, but tribal officials will not talk...
...consolidation trend is starting to appear outside the U.S., although somewhat unevenly. Europe has been slow to shed centuries of vineyard traditions, but the New World producers, especially the Australians, have been expanding aggressively. Four companies--Southcorp Wines, B.R.L. Hardy, Orlando Wyndham (owned since 1989 by Pernod Ricard) and Beringer Blass Wine Estates (Foster's)--now account for 74% of the wine exported from Down Under, according to Macquarie Resource Equities...