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- <text id=90TT2679>
- <title>
- Oct. 08, 1990: I'm Not An Oenophile
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 23
- I'm Not An Oenophile
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- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> "I must admit that I do not deserve to be considered a
- [wine] connoisseur," writes Richard Nixon in Forbes FYI, a new
- supplement to the business magazine. The former President's
- article provides evidence that his modesty is well placed. The
- Sage of Saddle River proffers advice that wine lovers will
- recognize as misleading or downright wrong. Never chill a red
- wine, he decrees. In fact, most Beaujolais and some other fruity
- reds benefit from cool temperatures. Nixon says California's
- consistent climate renders vintage years virtually irrelevant as
- a guide to quality, a claim that would be disputed by the Napa
- and Sonoma vintners who suffered through icy rains last fall.
- Nixon heralds the 1961 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild as the
- century's greatest Bordeaux; he serves it when regaling
- journalists in his home. Wine critic Robert Parker calls the
- 1961 "unyielding, too acidic, disturbingly austere and
- surprisingly ungenerous." Parker's pick: the 1949 Lafleur
- Pomerol.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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