Word: wined
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...what is typically an extremely painful problem, he was pleasant, talkative and charming. His interests lay in the history of his native Sparta and in the making, extolling and drinking of large amounts of the well-known (and in my limited experience, best-avoided) pine-resin-laced traditional Greek wine retsina. Trained by decades of exposure to the resinous brew, Nick's brain and liver now presented us with an unusual difficulty: they had become so good at detoxifying his system that it was nearly impossible to sedate...
...kept pushing in drugs. I asked him repeatedly, "Do you feel sleepy, Nick, or a little drunk, or anything?" And he just kept smiling, saying no and talking about wine recipes and the exploits of Leonidas. Sedating old people is a dangerous business - they can stop breathing in an instant - so by the time we had given him enough narcotic to drop a horse and he wasn't even sleepy, we knew we couldn't give him any more. We had to reduce the hip with Nick fully awake...
...understood this - maybe it was something a wounded Spartan hoplite might have done while being treated on the battlefield. Anyway, he got it. And, by Zeus, he relaxed. So I pulled, lifting Nick and an ER doc off the stretcher, and while Nick waxed on about sterilizing old wine bottles, I felt his new old hip pop back into place. The leg came out to length and was straight again. Everyone was relieved - everyone but Nick, who seemed a little annoyed that I was leaving to order another x-ray. He was just getting to the important part about...
Leave it to Dom Pérignon, the Champagne house that has been making wine for more than three centuries, to come up with OEnothèque, a unique definition of luxury. It's the masterpiece of Dom Pérignon's chef de cave, Richard Geoffroy, who has just named two releases that will bear the OEnothèque label. Here's how it works: instead of being bottled after seven years, some of the wine is held back so that the yeast can mature further. Every year Geoffroy tastes the Champagne (cuvées generally age for 12 to 15 years...
...Following last summer's war with Israel, an ongoing political crisis, and a string of assassinations, Lebanon's reputation hangs in the balance. "Wine develops as long as the country where it is produced conveys positive values," Ramzi explained. No one wanted to drink South African wine during apartheid, and Chile couldn't sell its wine as long as Pinochet was in power. "Wine is a journey," he said. "And who want to travel to a country that conveys negative values...