Word: wines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appetizers were pate, salmon mousse, cheese and crackers and wine. The main dish was politics. That, and a cool summer breeze brought a couple dozen city activists to the spacious, woody backyard of a private home just off Brattle St. Wednesday night...
...state's wine makers still have much to learn about the economies of expansion and the development of a distinctive style. "They just make what the grapes give them," says one critic. Joel Klein, a former wine maker for Chateau Ste. Michelle who is now organizing his own company, explains: "In California and Europe there are some fairly well-recognized guidelines for wine making. Up here we don't really know yet how best to make these wines." Comments Peter Bachman, Chateau Ste. Michelle's head wine maker: "You have to juggle with what nature gives...
...climate and topography of Cold Creek, in south-central Washington, seem suitable for red wines, though the state's reds have yet to receive the acclaim earned by its whites. Wade Wolfe, 34, Chateau Ste. Michelle's overseer for vineyard operations, who has a Ph.D. in grape genetics from the University of California at Davis, thinks that this district may be good for Cabernets and Merlots. Says Tchelistcheff: "The reds are just starting to come up. They need more aging, more know-how, more sculpting by the wine maker." Washington needs to attract more such experts, as California...
...young industry also requires greater capitalization, for both expanded production and more effective marketing; even in big cities, the wines are still hard to find. The land, the climate and the demand for good wine, however, are there. Within ten years, they vow in the valleys, Yakima and Columbia will be wine-cellar words...
...meditative. When he had started playing this game of Save the Planet-when he was roguish Sean Connery and the world was so much younger-Bond had been a kind of role model for people of a certain class and ambition. Savoir-faire meant the aristocracy of style: which wine to decant, which brand of cigarette to smoke, which automatic weapon to carry under the armpit. Now that he was Roger Moore, 20 years later, Bond had degenerated into a male model, and something of a genial anachronism...