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Bradley writes that Summers flew to Gates’ home in Martha’s Vineyard in August 2001 to convince the treasured scholar to remain at Harvard...
...producing the 900-plus-page Wine Bible in 2001. The book, which covers in an unpretentious style all aspects of making, drinking and enjoying wine, has sold 246,000 copies and is in its 10th printing. MacNeil's entire life is defined by wine--she even lives at a vineyard in Napa Valley with her winemaking husband Dennis Fife. And although individual wine consumption is gradually increasing in the U.S.--up 11.2% since 1991--that is not fast enough for MacNeil. "It is as if most of the world didn't know about chocolate," she says. "You want to tell...
...Japanese islands of Okinawa are home to the world's largest population of centenarians, with almost 600 of its 1.3 million inhabitants living into their second century--many of them active and looking decades younger than their actual years. Like weekend visitors on the summer ferry to Martha's Vineyard, scientists and sociologists clog the boats to Sardinia and Nova Scotia, Canada, to see why those craggy locales harbor outsize clusters of the superold. (Gerontologists are not so beguiled by the Russian Caucasus, where exaggerated longevity claims sparked a series of Dannon yogurt commercials 30 years...
...years. Guided by enologists hired via Argentine travel agencies for $40 a day, tourists are descending on Mendoza's sprawling plain, where winemakers like Catena have polo teams to entertain wine tasters, and many bed-and-breakfasts sport spectacular views of the snowcapped Andes. At the Familia Zuccardi vineyard, guests at asados (meat-grilling parties) are treated to tango shows. The influx has also shone a spotlight on Mendoza institutions like 1884, which Restaurant magazine recently rated the world's seventh best restaurant, and the Park Hyatt, which offers wine-tasting salons as earnestly as other hotels advertise Internet service...
...Pinochet dictatorship. But as part of the push to trumpet its newer, higher-quality winemaking, Chile is turning to wine tourism as a means of selling a brighter national identity. Colchagua now has a Ruta del Vino (Wine Route), with train service, tastings on decks built high into vineyard hills, horseback excursions and rodeos performed by huasos (cowboys). Four-star Spanish-colonial-style hotels like the Santa Cruz Plaza are sprouting up, and festivals like the Vendimia (grape harvest) are drawing new crowds of foreigners. At the bottom of the world these days, the wine future looks all bottoms...