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...days later he hasn't called, the truth of the matter is he probably wasn't interested in you in the first place, or he's not going to call you. So what good is it having his number? The problem is, you have a couple of glasses of wine with your friends on day three, and you find yourself calling him. You're a little unruly, and you're having a little too much fun, and then you wake up the next morning and you regret it. You can't believe you called him. So I think...
...processing this directive] a handblown crystal that it says is hard enough to be banged vigorously and repeatedly on a table or floor without breaking. That's not the only advantage of the new material, which Arc has dubbed Kwarx (the formula is a trade secret). The color of wine is said to be more faithfully perceived because of Kwarx's perfect neutrality on the chromatic scale, and the material has been used in a new range of Arc wineglasses called Open Up - a reference to their ability to "open up" the aroma of wines being served...
...There are specific glasses for Champagne, Chardonnay, tannic wines (like Cabernet) and soft wines (such as a Zinfandel), as well as a "universal tasting" glass that can be used for any variety (although it handles Sauvignon particularly well). After testing the Kwarx effect, Simon Tam, director of the International Wine Centre in Shanghai, rules: "These glasses deliver an accurate environment for wine appreciation. The calculated, wide glass bulb gives plenty of surface area for the wine to blossom." There's just one drawback: Will Greek or Russian weddings, where wineglasses and other breakables are smashed for luck, ever...
...Workers in the Vineyard TIME's July 17 issue reported that wines are being put out by everyone from golf pros to porn stars. Long before the celebrity marketing trend, bottles bore the names of our Nov. 27, 1972, cover boys, Ernest and Julio Gallo, the post-Prohibition pioneers of the U.S. wine industry...
...didn't have enough money to buy gas,' recalls Ernest. 'Instead, we used four mules and worked the vineyards seven days a week from daylight to dusk.' With the first stirrings of [Prohibition's] repeal, they dug up $5,900.23 in capital and set out to produce their own wine. They rented a railroad shed for $60 a month, bought a $2,000 grape crusher and redwood tanks on 90- to 180-day terms. There was one nettlesome problem: though they had plenty of experience growing grapes, they did not know how to make wine. In the Modesto public library...