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...Wine & Spirits have started devoting themselves solely to organic and biodynamic offerings, and sommeliers at restaurants across the country are creating wine lists that exclusively feature these ecologically sustainable wines. More important, some of the world's greatest vintners have signed on to the biodynamic craze, including Domaine Marcel Deiss of Alsace and Italy's Emidio Pepe. Alain Dugas, winemaker at France's Château La Nerthe--where wine has been produced almost continuously since 1560--began experimenting with biodynamics on 20 of its Châteauneuf-du-Pape acres 10 years ago. Why the sudden urge to tinker with centuries...
...TIME: The Foreign Minister criticized you for how you handled the tabloid incident and for mixing your personal and professional lives. Borer: This is a ridiculous allegation. My minister, Joseph Deiss, didn't stick up for me. One of the scandals is that the ministry was informed five days earlier that this story was going to run and instead of giving me the chance to prepare my defense or maybe file an injunction, they wouldn't tell me anything...
Time to Flee. To see such sights today in Herculaneum, writes Joseph Deiss, an amateur archaeologist and vice-director of the American Academy in Rome, is to "walk 2,000 years into the past." The world is more familiar with what happened to neighboring Pompeii on the same day that Herculaneum died; erupting on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius buried Pompeii in a sudden fiery rain of stone and ash, entombing nearly one-tenth of its 20,000 citizens and inflicting terrible damage on the city. Herculaneum, however, was more fortunate. Granted time by the wind, which blew west toward...
...very location was lost until 1709, when monks in Resina, a city superimposed by chance on Herculaneum's grave, uncovered some marble theater seats while sinking a well. Other diggers plundered Herculaneum of everything their tunnels exposed. "It is one of the tragic ironies of human endeavor," writes Deiss, "that the suffocating mud did less damage to Herculaneum than the earliest excavators...
Only the Chin. Deiss's book discloses another archaeological irony. "Of the whole face of Herculaneum," he writes, "we have seen thus far only the chin." Systematic excavation has been halted since before the war. Most of Herculaneum still sleeps beneath millions of tons of volcanic stone; all of the forum, for instance, the heart of every Roman town, is completely enshrouded. "It seems incredible," Deiss concludes, "to discover a buried treasure...