Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home Runs in Wine...
...well say that Joe DiMaggio is batting so poorly that 14 times out of 45 times at bat he failed to hit a home run. For, make no mistake about it, a gold medal awarded by a California State Fair jury is a home run in wine, and 31 is a lot of gold medals...
...missed the . . . point most likely to interest TIME'S readers. Four small counties in Northern California-Napa, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Alameda (which includes the Livermore Valley) produce together less than a third of California's annual 140 million gallons. Yet, in the field of table wine, these counties won 19 out of 20 gold and all 23 silver medals...
...winery, founded in 1883 by a German immigrant, Carl Wente, is small by California standards. It has only 500 acres of vineyards run by Carl's sons, Ernest, 58, and Herman, 54, who started learning viticulture almost as soon as they could walk. Their wines (trade names: Wente Bros., Valle de Oro) are not widely known because the brothers sell chiefly to the carriage trade, do little advertising. Their prices are comparatively high because their fine-wine vines yield only 1½ tons of grapes to the acre, v. twelve tons for inferior varieties. For the same reason, their...
Quantity. For the great mass producers, the judges also had kudos: a gold medal for Roma's dry vermouth, a silver medal for Wine Growers Guild's grape brandy, gold medals for Italian Swiss Colony's Pinot Noir and California port. But for 14 different varieties out of the 45 judged, the entries were so poor that no gold medals were awarded. This was thin news for the industry, already harassed by the same drop in sales that had hit liquor companies. With much of last year's record crush still unsold, vintners plan to crush...