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...hear a few announcements and then rapidly transact business about individual boys. "You really get to know your teachers and can be very matey with them," says Tom, the fourth-year student. "On a Saturday evening you can pop up to a teacher's house, have a glass of wine and a chat." Little says, "There's a net there trying to influence boys to make the right decisions, but it's not intrusive. The whole thing has to be built around human relations and communication; you protect that and build outward." A paradoxical result of all this careful human...
...Veuve Cliquot champagne bar. Milan Taking up three levels within eyeshot of the Duomo, Peck, tel: (39-02) 802 3161, has been a culinary lotusland for Milan's bons vivants for more than a century. The bustling space is split into a beautifully cool, 5,000-label wine cellar, a ground-floor delicatessen (replete with cured meats, cheeses, homemade pastas and an excellent range of top-shelf olive oils and vinegars), and lastly a decadent upper floor devoted to pastries, desserts and confectionery. Peck is also the location of the fashionable Cracco-Peck, a Michelin two-star restaurant...
...region's 57 appellations will be on hand, including Bordeaux's prestigious reds and sweet Sauternes, but also dry whites, ros?s and sparkling wines. Ch?teaus up and down the Garonne will be open for vineyard tours. Classical, popular and world-music concerts every evening will further intoxicate the senses. An exhibition, "Passion for Art, Passion for Wine," will draw from private collections around Bordeaux and include works by Pablo Picasso, Niki de Saint-Phalle and Bernard Pag?s. Visitors thus get a chance to both taste and see how wine producers and art collectors like Ch?teau Mouton Rothschild's Philippe...
...This year's guest of honor is Bordeaux's Japanese sister city, Fukuoka, and with good reason. While dwindling domestic consumption and increasing foreign competition have provoked the French wine industry's worst sales crisis in decades, wine consumption in Japan has surged almost 200% in 10 years. The Bordeaux Interprofessional Wine Council (CIVB) has recently upped its annual promotional budget to $27 million to reach new markets like Fukuoka, and the effort is paying off. CIVB president Christian Delpeuch recently returned from a three-continent promotional tour. "Sales since the beginning of 2005 have never been so good...
...French wine critic Jacques Dupont doubts the message is reaching everyone, though?especially the lower-end, Bordeaux-producing majority. "For too long they have neglected marketing," he says. "I believe we've hit rock bottom, but now they must rise from this crisis with new ways of functioning." If nothing else, many viticulturalists will learn how to toast in Japanese this year?kampai...