My own qualms about barrel-fermented chardonnays aside (I prefer the fruitier, crisper kind produced in stainless steel), Banfi's 2000 version is a classy, polished example of the genre.
Another more polished example, that's not related to PLUX or BITalino, is Teddy The Guardian, a child-focused medical device being created by a UK-based startup.
Brambly, herbal notes were consistent in this crop of Languedoc wines, from the delightfully rustic to more polished examples.
A Pittsburgh group, the Partisan Project (www.partisanproject.org), offers more polished examples of the art, with images by Michael Bierut of Pentagram, Art Chantry and others.
They want to make wines that can hold their own against the most polished examples from Europe or the New World, but that happen to come from the Middle East.
iPhone / iPad CivCrafter (Free + IAP) CivCrafter is one of the most polished examples of the "clicker" genre of games, where a single action – tapping on the screen in this case – develops into a richer resource-management game of empire-building.
It is a polished wine, a representative example of the East End's better merlots and, at $18 a bottle at Corey Creek's tasting room, on Main Road in Southold, a good buy.
Polished slides, for example, will make a presentation seem more compelling.
You build and upgrade towers, manage a team of heroes and see off bosses in a polished and playable example of tower defence at its best.
But because a good audience tape of it circulated right after the show, and because a particularly clean soundboard version materialized, in the eighties, with the appearance of the first batch of Betty Boards, and because it is a polished and accessible example of the band at a high point, it became a mainstay of most tape collections and is possibly their most beloved piece of work.
The argument, which was highly polemical and overgeneralized, nevertheless promoted the ideal of the learned scholar-gentleman who had no pecuniary or political interests and was unintimidated by the overly polished and spiritless examples of professional painting.
