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Professional winemakers and savvy consumers are catching on to the Clef du Vin, or "wine key"-a metal dipping stick that comes in pocket, bottle and glass sizes and which simulates the effects of the passage of time on wine. Immerse the end of the Clef du Vin into a glass of wine, and the wine's flavor will change as if it had been aged one, two or even 10 years longer-thereby enabling the taster to assess the cellaring potential of the wine in an instant, a capability that has made the Clef du Vin the hottest...
...academy is the brainchild of Roberto Wirth, a passionate wine buff and owner of the luxe Hassler Villa Medici Hotel above Piazza di Spagna. Over an appropriately bibulous lunch with two friends?the wine writer Hugh Johnson and Steven Spurrier, founder of the Acad?mie du Vin in Paris (now closed) and Tokyo?Wirth realized "that there was nothing of this kind in Italy and it was the perfect moment and the perfect place to carry out such a project." He found the perfect property in the palazzetto, an abandoned four-story private mansion abutting the Spanish Steps with a second...
...hand-to-hand fighting and gunplay, relieved by some smartly scripted role playing and problem solving, but the real pleasure is the stunning graphics: everything looks old and rusty and grungy, as if each frame had been individually hand-distressed and then moodily lit by David Fincher. Vin Diesel plays Riddick with such inimitable heavy-lidded sangfroid, he ought to be in movies. Oh, that's right...
...rolling in honey all day in the south of France, that great sunlit throne room of the middle-class imagination. In Mayle's books, both the novels and the nonfiction accounts of his antic good life among the French, the olives are always plump and succulent, the vin rose tickles the palate just so and the croissants are so delectable that they seem to be buttering themselves...
...spent a good part of Encore Provence searching for the perfect corkscrew. But while he's caressing every grape and truffle, his half-baked caper plot runs on autopilot. Uncork his new book? If you must, but only if there's nothing more bubbly at hand. This one is vin ordinaire...