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[The Pour] Wines With a Difference - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com: Though Nossiter’s film (Mondovino) had important virtues in its call for appreciation of wines of distinct terroir and its cautions regarding globalization, the film’s most prominent goof was its failure to recognize the peasant-born technique of microbullage which saved Madiran from globalization and preserved the tannat tradition there in the wake of the wave of post WWII modernization, the stainless steel/inert gas/sterile filtration winemaking formula which gave rise to beautiful new styles like off-dry rieslings in Germany but also the disastrous French red wine stylistic crisis that its winemakers are only now beginning to comprehend and deal with.

[Nashville Scene - Bites] Nashville - Nashville Scene - Bites - Dairy Queen, Baskin-Robbins ...: One of the most provocative questions the wine documentary Mondovino raises is whether we should privilege "good taste" over "tasting good"--whether lofty, time-honored standards of excellence deserve to trump the seemingly simple matter of how drinkable a wine is. Is "terroir" more important than yumminess if you have less than $10 to spend on a bottle?

[Breaking News] Where's the clove? Cigarette importer tries cigars to get around ...: Altria Group 2Q profit rises, boosts forecastRICHMOND, Va. ”” Altria Group Inc., owner of the nation's biggest cigarette maker Philip Morris USA, said Wednesday that its second-quarter profit rose 9 percent partly as lower corporate expenses and the impact of an acquisition helped offset a decline in the number of cigarettes it sold.

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