Word: vintner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rapid development around scenic Queenstown. Just the other week, he bobbed up at Helen Clark's election launch, introducing the Prime Minister with an attack on the war in Iraq. And don't get him started on GE foods. Otherwise, the accidental actor and activist is content to play vintner. "The best review I ever got for my pinot noir was when they called it sex in a glass," says Neill. "That'll do for me." Cinema-goers can expect a lively vintage...
...mort,” declares independent vintner Aimé Guibert early in the documentary Mondovino. Wine is dead...
Montesquieu understood that good government demands the dogged nurturing of a society of laws and an attention to the knotty details of governance. This philosopher, wary of zealotry, was no Utopianist. "Even virtue," he counseled, "has a need for limits." A studious lawyer and vintner from Bordeaux's village of La Br??de, Montesquieu sought no leveling of society. He proposed a system of checks and balances whereby the fiats and whims of France's Bourbon throne were limited by established laws and the countervailing powers of a vital, widely dispersed aristocracy...
...State--of the difficulties of staging free elections. But, however vexing, voting alone cannot guarantee liberty's blessings. As Montesquieu knew, wise, enduring government involves more than setting up a ballot box and waiting for voters to fall in line. Perhaps, after all these years, a toast to the vintner from La Br??de might finally be in order--a vintage Bordeaux will do nicely...
...hour television series on the same topic, to be released sometime next summer. Far from a tiresome screed about the perils of globalization, Mondovino makes its argument by portraying the outsized personalities Nossiter finds across the spectrum of the wine-making world. We hear the emphatic musings of Languedoc vintner Aimé Guibert, who calls wine "mankind's quasi-religious relationship with the natural elements." Hubert de Montille, a hilariously irascible winemaker from Burgundy, points out that "where there are vines, there is civilization." Nossiter makes no bones about his allegiances. "We're in the thick of the battle...