2000

February 1, 2019

Number of baguettes produced daily (daily!) on the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The ship carries on average 2100 people, for whom daily rations of baguettes and croissants are clearly indispensable. Of course, what’s a crusty baguette without an accompanying glass of wine? Luckily, there are four bars on board. (This is the French Navy).

The Wine Clip: Mysteries of Minerality

“We entered the wine industry when there were no wine magazines, no wine critics, no 100-point scale—all 23 of us vintners in the Napa Valley in the 1960s. What we learned, we learned from the vineyard itself. Back then, it seemed like less was better.”

— Janet Trefethen (Trefethen Family Vineyards is 50 years old this year)

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