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Every August, Nikolai Gusev juices hundreds of unwashed apples which grow at his dacha, west of Moscow. For a month he waits patiently for the juice to ferment and turn into a wine. He then distills the mixture, and stores the remaining liquid in a barrel for several months. The result is a highly potent drink (45% alcoholic), with an apple aftertaste which is the favorite tipple of his friends. "I had too many apples at my dacha and instead of throwing them away I wanted to do something with them, for me making moonshine is just a little...
...This town knows a thing or two about power-grabbing philanderers, the ones who wine and dine you, take you to bed, collect some campaign cash and then move on to the next hot catch - but not before offering a hug and the gentle admonition, "It's not you, babe. It's me." It doesn't so much matter that by all appearances Gregg is no gallant, that he seemed to actually be telling the truth when he said the reason he got cold feet at the altar was that he couldn't bring himself to fully support the President...
...give me the wine-and-dine baloney, young lady.' ARLEN SPECTER, Republican Senator, reprimanding radio host Laura Ingraham for suggesting that he supported the stimulus package because he attended a White House cocktail hour...
Vionnet credits his techniques to a group of Villié-Morgon-based winemakers dubbed the Morgon Gang of Four. In the '80s, Marcel Lapierre, Jean Foillard, Guy Breton and Jean-Paul Thévenet gathered in opposition to "industrial wine" to make pesticide-free, nonsulfured, nonfiltered wines. Marcel's son Mathieu is heartened by the new crop of feisty purists. "The trend with many of the young winemakers today is to practice vinification and agriculture respectful of the region's identity," he says. The results are far more exciting than the cookie-cutter Beaujolais Nouveau of old. "We have different...
...Wine Country: A Day in Beaujolais With its medieval villages, rolling hills and lanes of lush Gamay vines, Beaujolais - which wine writer Rudolph Chelminski likens to a "Hollywood set for an ideal vineyard region" - is well worth the two-hour train ride from Paris. Visit Domaine Lapierre and the vineyards of the other members of the Morgon Gang of Four in Villié-Morgon, where you can sip and sleep at Domaine Jean Foillard's bed and breakfast, tel: (33) 4 74 04 24 97, overlooking the vine-covered Côte de Py hills...