Certainly his business, Terroir Capital, reflects his taste, as it has invested in producers of restrained California wines like Sandhi and Wind Gap.
The use of laptop electronics is ingenious and restrained: Chad Taylor's Total Recovery opens with a pulsing sequenced synthesiser and repeat echo reminiscent of roots Kraftwerk, with no obeisance to fashionable beats or samples.
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Similarly, Taber suggests trying any one of a few more restrained California cabs.
President Obama's words have been more restrained, but Cuba and the United States have nonetheless found themselves at odds on a number of issues.
He thinks Russia's response to the Georgian shelling on South Ossetia is not only parallel to, but more restrained than, America's attacks on Yugoslavia over Kosovo in 1999.
The Obama administration has tightened sanctions but declines to call on Assad to resign, unlike Hosni Mubarak (whose response to Egypt's uprising was infinitely more restrained) and Libya's Gaddafi.
The reconstruction of the attack, which several officials suggested was revenge for Afghan or Pakistani deaths at American hands, takes on new relevance given the worsening rupture in relations between Washington and Islamabad, which has often been restrained by Pakistan's strategic importance.
Fearing that Syria's stockpile of missiles and chemical weapons could fall into less restrained hands, Israel may also calculate that maintaining a feeble, delegitimised Assad regime is in its interest.
Strangely demure, in a restrained black Vivienne Westwood.
They were elegant and restrained; the California wines were full-bodied and lush.
