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Late last year, three world-renowned wine experts gathered in a nondescript, windowless room at Changi Airport in Singapore. For two days, they methodically worked their way through some 400 unmarked bottles of Champagne, Chardonnay, Cabernet and Merlot from around the world, pausing only to record scores on a 20-point scale. The test was one that required not only a trained palate but also a certain imagination. The judges had already sampled wines in a pressurized room that replicates the taste-deadening conditions at 30,000 ft., so they knew to choose softer, fruitier wines. After six bottles...
Singapore Airlines (SIA), will spend $9.4 million this year on wine and spirits. And SIA is giving no thought to cutting back...
...looks, but it also depends on what they’re buying,” said Cardullo’s cashier Francesca A. Vitale. “A person who is buying an expensive bottle of wine, instead of vodka, is less likely to be underage...
...English winemakers aren't waiting for the French to pop their corks. Chapel Down, Nyetimber and RidgeView wineries are already making sparkling wines that rival champagne in quality and price. But what to call the stuff? Ridgeview founder Michael Roberts has dubbed his bubbly Merret, after Christopher Merret, an English doctor who, he says, described how to make fizzy wine decades before the French monk Dom Prignon did. Expect an argument from the French...
...amount of their own money they would have even if the party fund still covered alcohol. This is apparently the line of thinking the UC has pursued in seeking to expand the range of purchases the Party Fund will cover. But it ultimately fails the test of practicality; beer, wine, and liquor compose the bulk of the expenses for the vast majority of UC-funded parties.In addition, the new agreement is not a particularly meaningful assertion of UC autonomy. While the College is no longer officially telling the UC how to allocate its resources, this is only because...