Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's leading wine critics is preparing for a hard day's work. On the cluttered wet bar of his home office in rural Parkton, Md., nine stubby, stemless glasses, narrower at the top than at the bottom, are lined up. Behind them stand nine uncorked bottles of California red wine, their labels obscured by foil wraps. The critic rinses the glasses with wine from three of the bottles. Then he pours an inch or so of red liquid from the first bottle into the first glass and holds it up to the light. "Good color," he says, "but that...
...course of an average week, Robert M. Parker Jr., 40, will sniff, sip and spit his way through hundreds of bottles of wine (reds in the morning, whites in the afternoon). The opinions recorded at his daily tastings are written up primarily for the 21,000 subscribers (at $30 a year) to his influential, fact-choked bi-monthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate. Finally, some of the judgments will mature into a book. November marked the publication of his third, The Wines of the Rhone Valley and Provence (Simon & Schuster; $22.95); both sections of France, Parker believes, offer good bargains...
...Driving has been a primary factor in the fight that has raised drinking ages from 18 to 21 in 34 states plus the District of Columbia since 1982. Despite strong opposition from the alcohol industry, which lobbies vigorously against higher excise taxes for alcohol and warning labels on beer, wine and liquor bottles, groups like MADD and the National Council on Alcoholism continue to push initiatives that will further discourage consumption of alcohol...
Many Americans cannot get along without French clothing, wine and perfume, even if the value of the dollar is falling. But do Americans need a French department store? A Denver-based developer, Realities Inc., thinks so. Hoping to capitalize on one of the great names in European retailing, Realities has opened the first U.S. franchise of Paris' 122-year-old Printemps department- store chain...
...testifying to no avail before an Illinois crime commission. "As a result, we were pariahs," Scariano recalls. Simon developed a bleeding ulcer. The only good thing to come out of it, Jeanne Simon says, is that on his doctor's orders the abstemious Simon began drinking a glass of wine with dinner...