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Enterprising California winemakers are embracing them too. Don Sebastiani & Sons playfully named one of its brands Screw Kappa Napa. Randall Grahm, owner of Bonny Doon Vineyard, held a mock funeral for the cork in 2002; today 99% of his wines use screw caps. Fetzer and Stone Cellars by Beringer have gone so far as to put their single-serving screw-top wines in plastic bottles. Whitehall Lane goes a step further and uses elegant glass stoppers for its expensive bottlings...
...real estate value, the Vatican closed with a net gain of €24.9 million on real estate in 2004. But Church officials know that economic gains are at the mercy of the Lord. With the bill on Pope John Paul II's mammoth funeral pending, noted Sergio Cardinal Sebastiani, chairman of the Holy See's economic affairs department, the Vatican might drop back to break-even for 2005. - By Jeff Israely and Adam Smith Keep On Rolling Were the obituaries for the auto business premature? Just a few months ago, major Western carmakers were on the skids. Standard & Poor...
...trial between Kendall-Jackson and Gallo over so-called trade dress infringement has vintners from California's Santa Barbara to the Alexander Valley aghast at the spectacle of two of the industry's more cantankerous personalities' slugging it out. Some of the biggest names in the business--Sebastiani, Mondavi and Wente--have been called as witnesses. "This is like wrestling with a gorilla 30 times your size," says Jackson. "But if I don't fight them, who will...
...such novels as Little Big Man, Neighbors and Reinhart's Women, surveys this turf through the device of a mock international spy story. An American agency known as "the Firm," which may or may not be the CIA, wants to know if it should throw its support to the Sebastiani Liberation Front. To find out, it recruits none other than Russel Wren, a onetime college English instructor, would-be playwright and sometime private investigator, as well as the protagonist of Berger's 1977 Who Is Teddy Villanova? Wren's invincible innocence would seem a poor recommendation...
Since the American still-wine business has gone flat in recent years, American wine makers have rushed into the fizz biz. Recent entries include Sebastiani and Iron Horse. The U.S. now has more than 100 brands of domestic sparkling wine, up from 56 in 1979. Schramsberg, the highly regarded Napa Valley brand that President Reagan served last spring at an official dinner in China, expects to sell some 28,000 cases of sparkling wine in 1984, 17% more than last year. Two of France's leading champagne producers, Moët-Hennessy and Piper-Heidsieck, have established wineries...