Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Says Correspondent Scott: "There is lots of cheek kissing. Temp is master of the toast, and he gives them in rapid-fire succession. Each new fill of the wine glasses, which are enormous crystal ballons of the sort normally seen only at the swankiest restaurants, brings an invocation of 'Hei, hei,' a friendly salutation which Fielding has borrowed from the hard-drinking Finns. Old anecdotes are dredged up and embellished until they sink again?about the day that Prince Albert and Princess Paola of Belgium visited the villa for skeet shooting and the time that a U.S. Navy admiral suddenly...
London. Mitre Hotel, 28 miles outside London proper, at Hampton Court. Diners are advised to arrive early for an appetite-inducing stroll through the formal gardens of Hampton Court Palace across the street. Two restaurants, lavish wine cellar (stock valued at $125,000). Suggested entree: lobster à l'américaine (sauteed in butter, flamed with brandy and served on a bed of rice with its own lobster sauce). Or Dover sole, poached in cream sauce and Meursault, garnished with baby shrimps. The tab: about...
...periodic checkup of the wine cellar, one carabiniere became suspicious of the pale rose color of the liquid. Investigation revealed that the Biblical miracle of Cana had been reversed-the wine had somehow turned to water. The police were chagrined-and utterly perplexed. How had so vast a quantity of wine been removed from the cellar...
After a search ranging from the River Po to the Bay of Naples, the carabinieri found their culprit right at home in Porto d'Ascoli. He was Fabbio Lanciotti, owner of a large winery and one of the defendants in the wine trial. Lanciotti had been able to make off with Exhibit A against him because the police had had the lack of foresight to store the impounded wine in Lanciotti's own wine cellar (the biggest in town). While free on bail, Lanciotti had been given permission to go on producing wine and had quietly siphoned...
When jailed, Lanciotti reportedly admitted everything, even that he had destroyed the $240,000 when he panicked as police closed in, though few believed the story. The carabinieri rounded up ten new defendants, six of them for selling the Lanciotti wine to shops and restaurants...