Word: wining
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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...
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...
...were drinking for Lebanon. The Lebanese economy is now hugely dependent on aid from foreign powers - who have turned the country into a regional battleground - and also on the foreign tourism that has turned Beirut into an Oriental Disneyland for the privileged few. But if foreigners start quaffing Lebanese wine en masse, Bekaa valley vineyards could become incubators for economic independence and environmental sustainability: In vino, libertas. Come to think of it, Israel produces wine too. Can we drink our way to Middle East peace...
...Unfortunately, Lebanon's recent troubles cloud the outlook for the wine industry. This year, impoverished Bekaa farmers took advantage of the security forces' being distracted by the protracted battle against Islamist radicals holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp, to plant another of the Bekaa's fabled crops: hashish. Hashish farming threatens to gobble up land that could be used for vineyards, and creates a get-rich-quick gangster culture that's at odds with the patient investment necessary to produce wine...
...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...