Word: wined
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...narrative is set forth in more than 700 remarkable objects. These run from Isaac Oliver's exquisitely realized miniature of three reflective siblings of the Montague family, clad in sober Catholic black, to an intimidating silver wine cooler half the size of a Jacuzzi; from Johan Zoffany's courteous but plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor...
There are ideal juxtapositions, as with the Chippendale sideboard, wine cooler and pedestaled urns from Harewood House, whose rich tones of rosewood and satinwood are echoed and amplified in the glossy coats of the Stubbs horses hanging above them, borrowed from a different estate. The cast list of painters and sculptors, silversmiths, ebenistes and potters is immense, and though there are disappointments--Turner, for instance, is poorly represented --there are also some startling moments. It would be difficult to find a clearer or fresher Canaletto than his view of the Thames from Richmond House, for instance, or a more precocious...
What do yeast, egg white and fish glue have in common? They are ingredients of some wines, though a customer would not realize it from reading the labels on the bottles. Thinking that people should know what they are drinking, Federal Judge John Pratt ruled in Washington last week that beer, wine and liquor manufacturers must begin revealing ingredients by April...
...reducing regulations. The Administration was then sued by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which argued that many Americans are allergic to some ingredients used by brewers and distillers. For example, the center said, people could have a reaction to the sulfites often found in beer and wine or the corn in liquors...
Concern about the contents of alcoholic beverages seemed to have some foundation last week, when the Villa Banfi, the largest U.S. wine importer, had to recall up to 400,000 cases of Riunite wine because some of it contained traces of diethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze. Austrian vintners were accused last summer of using that ingredient to sweeten wine...