Word: cabernets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...York State liquor authority might want to investigate, as the legal age for drinking alcohol in New York is 21. In describing how the partnership came together, you noted that Bertelsmann chief Thomas Middelhoff and Napster founder Shawn Fanning consumed a bottle of "$219 Phelps Insignia Cabernet" wine with their power lunch at a New York City restaurant. Perhaps that was the reason why 20-year-old Fanning was so "entranced" by the German media giant. Should the deal turn sour, I'll wonder if the alcohol Fanning consumed distorted his judgment. GEORGE W. ROTH Boston
...explain the Bertelsmann culture and the Internet, the speed at which everything is changing and the importance of our similar thinking about the value of membership communities," recalls Middelhoff, stopping just short of delivering the sermon again. By the time they finished the $219 Phelps Insignia Cabernet, Fanning was entranced by the precision and the passion, and he walked back to his hotel convinced that the gregarious German with the rimless glasses and earnest gaze was a man he could trust...
...CABERNET "It's very elegant; strong on blackberries; a little plummy; hints of peppermint; fruity, intense." --Michel Couvreux, chief sommelier, Le Bernardin...
...over at Colgin Cellars, owner Ann Colgin could have swapped a case of her Cabernet for a Mercedes SUV. (She passed.) With 5,000 customers for only 400 to 500 cases of each vintage, Colgin restricts the number of bottles each can purchase. Many folks get only one. Wine lovers are not averse to venting their frustration over this paucity. At a dinner party, Colgin was presented with a single scallop. Only partly joking, the host explained that this was her allocation...
...Sine Qua Non 1997 Imposter McCoy Syrah, he also drove from Chicago to pick it up. At the 20th annual Napa Valley Wine Auction for charity last month, collector Chase Bailey bid $500,000 for a single six-liter bottle of a 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet, the highest auction price ever paid for a bottle of wine. Under what circumstances do you imbibe a half-million-dollar bottle of wine? "I haven't the slightest idea," says Bailey. "Maybe we'll have a great party...