Word: vintner
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Good Glug. Beaujolais Nouveau arrives in stores and restaurants on Nov. 20. Vintner George DuBoeuf, who produces some 30 million bottles of the stuff a year, predicts a full-bodied vintage for 2008, since the September growing season was dry; the wine, which goes straight from the vine to your table without aging, is meant to be drunk immediately. Look for uncorking events in Miami, New York and Las Vegas, which will celebrate the wine's first tasting at 12:01 p.m., according to tradition and French law - or just check your local wine shop for the $10-$12 bottles...
...Chris Pine), who needs to learn responsibility? Check. Is there a comely intern named Sam (Rachel Taylor) for him to fall in love with? Double check. Does he have a rival for his affections in Gustavo (Freddy Rodriquez), who also happens to be a promising (and very soulful) vintner himself? Triple check. You can bet that crisis comes to the Barretts, in the form of an apparent failure of their potentially prize-winning wine, which - we're running out of check marks here - brings out the best in everyone...
DIED. Ernest Gallo, 97, vintner tycoon; just weeks after the death of his younger brother, cheesemaker Joseph Gallo; in Modesto, Calif. He grew up on a vineyard owned by his father, an immigrant from the wine-rich region of Piedmont, Italy. After their parents died, Ernest and his brother Julio began E. & J. Gallo Winery in 1933 with $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library. With Ernest directing the company's innovative marketing campaigns, the duo turned the distinctly American family business into one of the world's largest winemaking empires...
...practices--like the banning of pesticides and chemicals--with somewhat mystical ideas such as basing planting and harvesting schedules on the position of the moon, sun and stars. It's full of colorful details like burying a cow horn filled with manure at the autumnal equinox. One Italian biodynamic vintner has even placed loudspeakers around his vineyards. Although he claims that playing Mozart makes his vines grow quicker and healthier, the more perceptible result of blaring Symphony No. 40 in G Minor is that it scares the bejesus out of grape-stealing deer, boars and birds...
DIED. Henri Jayer, 84, retired vintner whose crisply balanced, intensely flavorful Pinot Noirs influenced and inspired connoisseurs, who pronounced him the best ever Burgundy maker; in Dijon, France. Blessed with a keen viticultural instinct and reluctant to intervene too heavily for fear of hiding a grape's flavor, the unpretentious Jayer never cultivated more than 17 acres at a time. Of critics' impassioned, intellectual analyses of his bottles, he said, "That's all fine and good. But do you like...