"AFTER is the Château Chartrons, a hotel fashioned from the old headquarters of Ginestet, a prominent firm of wine negociants.
Calling on a press agent of a firm of wine and liquor importers, the switchboard girl said she would connect us with their educational director.
The colourful preface features a delightful cameo appearance by Helen Mann, of The Economist, and a description of a bored Ned Johnson, boss of the huge Fidelity mutual fund firm, floating wine glasses in the lighted pool in the middle of New York's Four Seasons restaurant.
Argentine officials now require some importers to match their orders with exports, an absurdity that has led to car firms selling wine.
For weeks now, the most extraordinary human beings he has ever met have been calling on Ben Aveling: the reps are buzzing around the Old Red Lion, reps from the brewers, from soft drinks firms and wine importers.
Right now, the firm's tinned wines are sold in wine shops and in supermarket snack sections.
Until the 1920s, the Woodhouse firm marketed a wine called Bronte Nelson.
And so Two-buck Chuck was born.Mr Franzia's firm, the Bronco Wine Company, brings California's excess grapes to its plant in Napa Valley from all over the state.
The New Yorker, July 2, 1932 P. 5 Dewey's Restaurant on Fulton Street, formerly the old wine firm of H. T. Dewey & Son, supplies more than 2,000 churches with sacramental wine.
By Charles Cooke and James Thurber The New Yorker, July 2 , 1932P. 5 Dewey's Restaurant on Fulton Street, formerly the old wine firm of H. T. Dewey & Son, supplies more than 2,000 churches with sacramental wine.
So the opening in British Columbia last month of North America's first native-owned winery is welcome especially because it signals a new trend.Nk'Mip (pronounced in-ka-meep) Cellars is a joint-venture between the Osoyoos Indian band and Vincor, a large Ontario-based wine firm.
