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…everything I can to avoid this, but it happened nonetheless.
Mercifully, sweet somnolence eventually overcame me. After a few pages of Wolf Hall , I drifted off into a dreamless, shallow slumber, my fists clenched like spiteful snails. I woke up somewhere over the Baltic Sea, confused but no longer angry.
Next stop, Barcelona.
* Friends, by the time you read this, I'll be on the road again, headed to vineyards in Priorat.
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…Finnish country called Aland exists as a cluster of islands in the Baltic Sea. There, the story of the so-called " Champagne Schooner" begins.
In the 1840s, a two-masted 70-foot long cargo ship set sail from an unknown port to an unknown destination. Perhaps, the ship was sailing, as it has been alleged, to a Russian Emperor in St. Petersburg who never received his provisions from a ship that found a watery grave in the Baltic Sea.
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The menu will be presented …
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…closes, a replacement opens: Hakkasan , The Sea by Alexander's Steakhouse , Katsu . Local reviewers go wild, and those able and willing to afford them flock to their doors.
Yet you have to wonder, how long will they last? Ten years? Fifteen? Or, like Masa's, thirty? These numbers seem highly unlikely; a restaurant's life span is getting shorter, not longer.
Which brings us to the subject of cult wines.
I would imagine that the proprietors …
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Swedish divers have found a cache of old champagne bottles on a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. Christian Ekstrom (pictured above via BBC ) and his dive partners could not contain their enthusiasm at finding the intact bottles that may date from the late 18th century. So they brought one to the surface, uncorked it, and had a swig. Which statement below captures their reaction?
A) "Damn, it's only nonvintage yellow label, which hardly keeps from one Christmas to the next. Oh, and the bloody thing is corked!"
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