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Late last year, three world-renowned wine experts gathered in a nondescript, windowless room at Changi Airport in Singapore. For two days, they methodically worked their way through some 400 unmarked bottles of Champagne, Chardonnay, Cabernet and Merlot from around the world, pausing only to record scores on a 20-point scale. The test was one that required not only a trained palate but also a certain imagination. The judges had already sampled wines in a pressurized room that replicates the taste-deadening conditions at 30,000 ft., so they knew to choose softer, fruitier wines. After six bottles...
Singapore Airlines (SIA), will spend $9.4 million this year on wine and spirits. And SIA is giving no thought to cutting back...
...understand the long-term thinking and the staying power of SIA, it's worth thinking back to those wines that were chosen late last year, including a 1999 Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, a Bordeaux that retails for upwards of $130, and a 1998 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Fay Vineyard Cabernet, an $85 Californian. Neither of them will be served on SIA's new U.S. flights this year. Instead, they will be cellared until 2005 or 2006, when they will have developed the right character for drinking. --With reporting by Douglas Wong/Singapore
...Saturday at the Loeb Ex. Admission is free and you can use the money you save on tickets to buy some cheap whiskey after the show. 8:30 pm. Saturday, Nov. 17. Loeb Ex. Free. 5) Does this count as a (Foreign) Cultures Core? There’s a wine-tasting class on Sunday at the Cambridge Queenshead Pub. Learn what all the sophisticates are talking about when they swirl their glasses and inhale. Learn from Michael Meagher of the restaurant L’Espalier, one of Boston’s finest. Sunday evening, Nov. 17. Cambridge Queenshead...
...looks, but it also depends on what they’re buying,” said Cardullo’s cashier Francesca A. Vitale. “A person who is buying an expensive bottle of wine, instead of vodka, is less likely to be underage...