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...Unica from the Bouza winery (a very balanced wine that goes well with grilled meats) or the 2002 Tannat del Museo from Bodegas Carrau (redolent with the aromas of stone fruits and cedar). The 2005 Vieja Parcela Tannat from Castillo Viejo has a concentrated, mineral nose due to the vineyard's clay soils and, though dry in the mouth, has a long, sweet finish - the perfect exemplar of the new style of Tannat the world will be seeing more of before too long...
Diageo, the world's biggest liquor company, created Crush Camp two years ago and clearly doesn't care if the camp makes money. That became obvious not when I added up my two days of hotel stay, shuttle rides between vineyards and awesome catered meals but when I opened a second bottle of 1994 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon over dinner. Diageo must figure there's no more valuable marketing tool than a guy at a dinner party boring other guests with stories about how he might have picked the very Merlot grapes they're drinking...
While we were drinking, we walked around the wineries and slowed up their production. At Provenance Vineyard, we tasted the same wine from different barrels and learned that French oak really does taste different from American oak (it's less oaky). I got winemaker Tom Rinaldi to let me taste Petit Verdot, a blending grape used in tiny quantities for its dark color. It tastes a lot like wine...
...ever heard of. Then the head winemaker showed us their alternative pest-control system: a falconer. Besides learning that falcons scare starlings away from grapes by swooping down at 200 m.p.h., we learned that falconers are just about as geeky as you might have thought. At Beaulieu Vineyard, we used pipettes, beakers and a calculator to make our own blend of red wine, which was then bottled with storeworthy labels featuring our names. They were like our lanyards...
...play music that we think people should hear," says Joseph V. Gallagher, president of Aritaur Communications, which owns what he calls the "very slightly profitable" WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. Noting that the 25-year-old station expects to post $1.3 million in revenue this year, he says, "We don't program to get ratings...