Word: vintner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's life, much lost. He was a vintner's son who rose (through cleverness and, no doubt, the ability to entertain highborn ladies with after-dinner recitals) to become a government official, courtier and diplomat under three successive monarchs - Edward II, Edward III and Richard II. He was at least briefly a soldier, and while fighting in France under the Black Prince, he was captured, then ransomed for ?16. The smallness of this sum is a favorite joke among Chaucerians, but it amounts to $3,840 in modern terms, by Gardner...
Consumption of table wines has risen 7% this year, but production of California wine grapes jumped 19%. Many growers are caught holding the grapes because a surplus inventory of nearly 60 million gallons-the highest ever-is stacked up in California wineries. Says California Vintner Ernest Wente: "There aren't enough wineries in California to hold all the premium grapes coming...
...which is the season's first production by Manhattan's Negro Ensemble Company, is a free-form, episodic jour ney through black people's time. It ranges across 20th century America, criss crossing decades. MacDaddy (David Downing) begins as a sort of hustler-prince, a Prohibition vintner on the trail of his vanished friend Wine, who represents a lost magic, the secret of the race. A funky and inventive Candide, MacDaddy travels through peckerwood racism, black venality, Tomism and the death's-head enemy, heroin...
...compliments on TIME's story on wine in the U.S.; it is beneficial to the entire industry-with the exception of Guild, America's third-largest vintner. You overlooked the only major winery owned and operated by its grower members-over 800 of them, with more grape acreage under their control than any other single producer. You also overlooked the fact that our Winemaster's Pinot Noir won the coveted Grand Prize for the most outstanding wine at the 1971 Los Angeles County Fair...
French experts often politely describe U.S. wine as pleasant but not great. Baron Philippe de Rothschild, millionaire oenophile and vintner (Château Mouton Rothschild), says: "To develop character, great wines must go through hardship. Snow. Drought. Storms. There must be suffering to produce it. In California everything is much too perfect. The soil is too rich. The weather is too good. The wine all comes out industrially uniform, like Coca-Cola." In 1966, the Paris chain store Prisunic put three lines of California wines on sale. Some 60,000 bottles gathered dust and derision for several months before being...