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...technique used to reproduce Ernst's painting is called "kamagraphy," and its invention was announced last December by an enterprising Parisian combine headed by Engineer André Cocard, 49, and backed by Master Vintner Alexis Lichine. Kamagraphy faithfully produces 250 perfect copies of a painting on a special press, destroying the original in the process (color lithographs, by comparison, can be printed as many as 500 times, though first-quality press runs, signed by famous artists, are normally limited to between 30 and 250 prints). Each kamagraph looks as though the artist had painted it by hand. The French...
...industry sources expect that they will reach 75% before long. New York producers plan to benefit most-and they archly dismiss the lushly productive vineyards of their California rivals. Says Ernest I. Reveal, president of Widmer's Wine Cellars, Inc., the No. 2 New York vintner (after Taylor): "We like the fact that the vine has to hustle its bustle a bit to give us the required grape...
Writer & Angel. Many Rothschilds have flashed their wings outside these venerable surroundings. Versatile Philippe de Rothschild, 61, another of Guy's cousins, is a vintner, writer, and angel to assorted arts, leading a life as carefully modulated as a string quartet. He is the official French translator of British Playwright Christopher (The Lady's Not for Burning) Fry, and with his wife Pauline is translating into French the Elizabethan poems of Herbert, Herrick, Wyatt, Drayton and Sir Philip Sidney. His daughter Philippine, 28, is an actress on the French stage, and his niece Nicole, 39, produces films...
Though it might shock some purists, who believe that opposite sides of the same French hill produce distinctively different wine, most California makers blend their wines, arguing that this assures consistent quality and taste from year to year. Sometimes wine from the year before is added; often the vintner, if his own crop happens to be small one year, will buy the crop of nearby growers. In fact, only the label "Estate Bottled" indicates that the wine is wholly grown and produced on the grower's own property...
Died. Angelo Petri, 78, French-born vintner who re-established the Petri winery (started by Papa Raffaello in the San Joaquin Valley in 1886). after Prohibition ended in 1933, and helped to make it one of the biggest U.S. wine-marketing organizations before retiring as board chairman of United Vintners, Inc. five years ago; after a long illness; in San Francisco...