Word: wined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them? Does one's use of the rhetorical question and the impersonal pronoun disguise one's uneasiness with the subject, a fear of sounding effete about dishware? Why doesn't the Design Collection have any beer mugs on display? Is the form art-proof by definition? Is some wine-bound snobbery at work, even in utopia?" But you forgive the prof, `cause, ya know, this education thing is an uphill climb. A spoonful of sugar helps the culture go down, and, fortunately for us, Alfred Appel Jr. is as hopeful as the modernist masters he celebrates...
...STYLISH, WELL-HEELED CROWD packing the aisles of the second Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta knew a hot trend when they saw it -- and tasted it. Between sips of Chardonnay, about 2,000 "chileheads" dressed in pepper-print shirts, skirts and ties spent four days sampling chile dishes, taking "chile tours" of the New Mexican countryside and listening to experts like Paul ("Mr. Chile") Bosland dispense advice on how to grow just about every member of the family, from the mild-mannered bell pepper to the Mexican habanero, the world's hottest. The chile mania "has really turned into...
...treaty by a mere 13 votes out of 178,672 cast. Much of the opposition came from farmers. All rural France resented the agricultural-subsidy cutbacks initiated by Brussels, but even though they do not directly affect Charente grape growers, other regulations do. Brussels limits the amount of distilled wine they can sell according to volume rather than alcohol content, an unfair rule, they claim. And Big Brother even intrudes into their leisure time by restricting the hunting of migratory birds...
...Napa and Sonoma counties, heartland of California's $730 million-a-year wine industry, prospects are promising for a bumper harvest this fall. Beneath the deceptively lush surface of the peaceful vineyards, however, an expensive disaster looms. Billions of microscopic parasites called phylloxeras are munching away at the roots of the grape-bearing stalks. While no threat to human health, within a decade the tiny insects could eat their way through 50,000 acres of the nation's finest vineyards. Estimates of the total damage, including the cost of replanting with Phylloxera-resistant stalks, range from $500 million to more...
...rebuilding the American wine industry, growers tested a number of rootstalks. A majority settled on a variety called AXR 1 because it suited California's conditions so well, even though it was not totally immune to the phylloxeras. In 1979 a Napa County farmer noticed that his vines were thinning out and called in experts from the department of oenology at the University of California at Davis. They concluded that the phylloxeras had mutated into a new, prolific biotype that threatened all AXR 1 rootstalks. Reproducing asexually, one insect can spawn a billion offspring annually...