Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used enzymes without even recognizing their existence. Leather was once processed by soaking untanned skins in a solution of dog manure. No one enjoyed using this offensive reagent, and tanners rejoiced when its action was traced to enzymes that could be supplied from pleasanter sources. Fermentation of beer and wine is caused by enzymes secreted by yeast cells, and cheese gets its texture and flavor from other microbial enzymes. But most industrial enzyme users shy away from living ferments, which are hard to control. The modern method is to use comparatively pure enzymes that have been separated from the living...
...chairman in 1956. The ancient Harvey cellars at Bristol, destroyed by Nazi bombers, have been replaced by an above-ground warehouse where untraditional but highly efficient machinery fills, plugs and crates bottles. Though British vintners long considered advertising unseemly, McWatters spends lavishly on full-color ads in which his wines are surrounded with willowy women. To increase sales, he has opened wineshops in British department stores, bought up 60 small liquor shops, and opened a restaurant in Bristol with a wine card listing 1,050 choices. Harvey's of Bristol has even gone public, four years ago sold...
...Bordeaux wine sellers, the middlemen between France's greatest vineyards and the world, acted last week as though they had just sipped sour Médoc. ";We are furious," snapped one. What they were furious about was the prospect of losing their profitable business with Chateau Latour, one of four venerable vineyards* that produce the only chateau-bottled Medoc wines rated as premier grand...
...family, which has owned the vineyard since 1670, is wrapping up the final details of a deal that would give co-ownership of Chateau Latour and its annual output of precious claret to Britain's Harvey's of Bristol Ltd. And as a world-girdling distributor of wine and spirits, Harvey's has no intention of sharing its cup with the middlemen of Bordeaux...
...never been heard to ask anyone to call her Missus, and her prince-like most of the Eastern Europeans stashed around London, Paris and New York-would probably sooner surrender his Cadillac than his title. Around the Radziwill family, all males are called prince-except Cousin Antony, a Bayswater wine waiter, who is rarely called at all, at least by the Radziwills...