Word: vinous
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...taken more than a century for Bacchus Jr. to assemble his credentials: today they are a cause for hallelujahs, not harrumphs. In wine tastings from Perth to Paris, the bottles from California have been winning golds, silvers and bronzes in informal vinous Olympics against the products of some of the world's most astute and experienced winemakers. This is not to suggest, as some Californiaphiles would have it, that the Old Wine God is about to be toppled by the New. It does confirm that California's best wines are now as worthy of serious consideration and consumption...
...short, burly, handsome man with a beaverish grin. He wears a different tie to court every day and their florid colors are rivalled in the dull courtroom only by the countenances of his fellow prosecutors. Joseph I. Mulligan, Charles Dunn and Donald Brennan are a trio with vinous-colored faces and gray hair, that has rarely rustled from the branch, inhaling the soporific incense of their sedentary station at the prosecution table. Flanagan does the arguing...
...district, the vines are more bountiful than at any other time in this century. The profusion of Pinot Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and other Champagne grapes sometimes led to confusion among the vintners. Moët and Chandon and Piper-Heidsieck had to rent Marne River barges to store their vinous overflow. Others used abandoned water towers and even swimming pools. Assessments of the size and quality of the grape crop in other wine districts were only slightly less heady. A spokesman for the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, the industry's official group, summed up the quality...
When it came time to vote on whether or not Calais should grant licenses "for the sale of malt and vinous beverages" or for "spiritous liquors," the women left their stoves and filed past the ballot box too. They know the men will agree to grant licenses if they don't appear to outvote them. The only time the town voted in favor of selling liquor, no merchant took out a license...
London's Daily Express indignantly told a vinous tale. Its point: even the British Government has been touched by the profit fever which has kicked the prices of scarce luxuries skyward in Britain. Said the Express...