Word: wined
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...their advice for future evacuations. Their responses read like poetry, and you won't find most of them on any Red Cross checklist: my own pillow, Sudoku, shoes other than flip-flops, solar-powered garden lights, cat litter (for the humans), the kids' immunization records, the good bottles of wine we were saving for special occasions, and Xanax...
Beer is more diverse than wine, and a better value for money. But its myriad advantages—its deliciousness, its nutritional-content, its social lubrication value—are too often taken for granted. There are thousands of delicious varieties on the market, and the Queen’s Head has done well to expose Harvard students to a few more of them...
...number one economic power and it is already full of potential - with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. [For LVMH] this is a pioneering country, where we have grown relatively fast with luxury goods and cosmetics, and we are opening new territories for wine and spirits...
...industry, which tends to overproduce, often related to the timing of newly planted vines. New plantings generally take three to five years to bear enough fruit to turn a profit, and demand for a particular grape can dry up in that time. Investors are betting that high-end wine is less susceptible to oversupply, primarily because there are only limited areas in the U.S. and Europe where land and climate conditions are right for growing high-quality grapes...
Even now, it's not all wine and roses. Vintage Wine Trust, a private REIT formed in San Rafael, Calif., in January 2005, is already looking at alternatives to taking the company public. Chief financial officer Tamara Fischer says finding buyout targets and persuading wineries to sell through sale-leasebacks have been tougher than expected. "We thought we'd have $300 million invested in 18 months," she says. "But at 28 months, we only have $165 million...