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...output has doubled since 1995, with vine acreage up more than 50% in the past four years. Over the same period, the number of wine-drinkers worldwide has stagnated. "There are more and more of us fighting for the same-sized pie," says Charles Maurisset-Latour of the venerable Burgundian firm Maison Latour. The traditional major producers - France, Spain and Italy - have found themselves squeezed by state-of-the-art competitors from Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. When French exports started to fall after a bumper year in 1998, growers wondered if they'd got something wrong...
...based the musical on the red books, the Class Reports, and the discrepancy between the image that’s put forth and the reality. People write in saying impressive things, like they’ve been promoted at work or that they’ve just bought a Burgundian vineyard, when in reality, their marriage is on the rocks and they’ve been going through some tough times...
...little-known version of the Joan of Arc story, The Maid of Orleans, based on a play by Schiller. It presented a different problem: how to bring life to what is essentially a series of choruses and processions. One solution was to highlight Joan's fictitious romance with a Burgundian soldier. The Bolshoi's directors, says Kokonin, "read Tchaikovsky's music according to what they saw as Schiller's original theme: the conflict of love and duty...
...view as one enters is the avenue, plunging down the main axis and flanked on either side by raised terraces clad in squares of soft, tan-gray Burgundian limestone. The avenue is for monumental sculpture (some very monumental indeed, like the huge stone original of Carpeaux's La Danse, a copy of which decorates the facade of the Paris Opera). It finishes in a pair of windowless double-cube towers, containing smaller galleries, set against the glass end wall. Inside the terraces, left and right, are enclosed galleries. On top of these are two smaller "streets" for sculpture...
...fish. A splash of the Chenin Blanc ... Perfect: a good, muscular working lunch. Serious but not pompous, the visitor tells himself, a lunch to give shape to the day. Claiborne, a soft-voiced Southerner with a little boy's grin, murmurs encouragement. Franey, a blocky, square-faced Burgundian who was chef at Manhattan's Le Pavilion restaurant during the proprietorship of the great Henri Soulé, watches with approval...