Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around France. His most striking innovation was an automated $8,000,000 bottling plant, the most modern in Europe, built in 1963 on a canal north of Paris. There shifts of 90 men, working around the clock, turn out as many as 1,000,000 one-liter bottles of wine...
Keeping Track. The bulk wine arrives from southern France in barges or 40-tank-car trains, rests eight days in 1,000,000-liter tanks to let the sediment settle, then streams through stainless-steel mains to sterilized, electronically inspected bottles. They are automatically topped (with plastic and metal, not cork), stamped with labels, dropped twelve at a time into cases and conveyed to a mechanical loading dock. There a monitor at a control board punches out orders that fill up waiting trucks at the rate of a truck a minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother...
...this is enough to turn a discriminating wine fancier to stronger stuff. Henrion does not argue that fine wine should be handled like Préfontaines or that Préfontaines is a fine wine. "In my mind," he says, "this is something else, like Coca-Cola, like beer. It should be marketed that...
...wine flowed freely, and the old Nazi cronies, safe in Buenos Aires, reminisced about the great days under the Führer. "I am no longer being pursued," boasted one Ricardo Klement...
...sentimental Duke is clothed in rich blue and green brocade, and the garments of his companions are equally handsome, Olivia, in mourning for her brother, wears brown and black, and carries a conical parasol. Her conniving uncle Sir Today, a toper, is a monstrous barrel of rose wine come to life, with a wide sash just barely able to function as a hoop to keep the barrel from bursting. The foolish Sir Andrew is dothed in an orange and claret that are subtly incompatible...