Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wichita has 15 cases of fine wine, and no one can yet touch a drop...
...California, beer and wine courses can lead to heady jobs...
...brew crew spends its days monitoring the spigots of a miniature brewery that looms like some Rube Goldberg creation in their Cruess Hall lab. After breaking down 20 commercial beers chemically, the students then create their own original product. Fruits of this term's efforts: a barley wine, a dark German-type beer and a low-carbohydrate model. But both state laws and college custom decree that all potions be discarded after taste tests. "Sentence one, day one: there will be no abuses," says Microbiologist Michael Lewis, a ruddy-faced Welshman who has taught the course since...
Webb's domain extends underground to a huge wine cellar where some 95,000 bottles of student wine are aging gracefully. Like the beer, alas, all 95,000 bottles will go right down the drain once a panel of faculty and staff has rated their taste and bouquet. Along with such courses as "analysis of musts and wines" and "wine production," Davis offers a course on "sensory evaluation." But its strictly scientific approach sets it apart from the wine-appreciation courses that have germinated on some 300 U.S. campuses...
...Webb's oenology students, wine is not the "blushful Hippocrene" extolled by Keats but a complicated blend of ethyl alcohol, polyphenols and a hundred other compounds that must be subjected to decidedly unromantic analysis. At the moment, the department is trying to aid the time-honored sniff, sip and taste method of judging wines with a computer system that would analyze and rate mathematically the blend of compounds in wine...