The terms: $65 a bottle; $390 a case; a three-case limit; pay fully by Jan . 31 , 2003
CALAIS, France — "The Guv'nor!" is a red wine "stuffed with bramble and plummy flavours" that sells for about $5 a bottle, $30 a case.
I transported a bottle home and placed it in the cellar, next to my '07, '06, '05, '04, and '01 Beaucastels, in the spot recently vacated, sadly, by my last bottle from a case of '94s.
But now, beyond the shelves of olive oil and pasta and cases of cheeses and salamis, an award-winning wine department stands ready to sell you a bottle or a case, and beyond that, the Continis have tucked a cafe where Mrs. Contini is a constant presence, radiating warmth and good cheer.
For instance, you can go and get a bottle or a case of Heineken, and you can customise the label.
Everyday objects of happiness like a long glass soda bottle in a case remind visitors how simple pleasures are treasured in times of war.
"Hey, it's Walter the Seltzer man — are you awake?" he said on Saturday into the phone to a customer, and then sent Joey on another run into a building, carting cases of bottles made of thick green and cobalt glass — 10 bottles to a case — for which Mr. Backerman charges customers $35.
Even each of 12 bottles in a case can mature differently.
In some ways, plastic bottles are a case study in how companies can use innovations and consumer outreach to improve a recycling problem.
