There's a world of sparkling wine that doesn't come from that tiny place called Champagne...You may be pouring a lot of bubbles this season, but that doesn't mean you have to spend a lot of money.

It's the same seduction that one first feels when touching cashmere or fur, ... Nobody touches fur once, or cashmere once. With wine, you want to keep it in your mouth, you want to play with it, you want to roll it around until you get it.

I didn't know which way I was going to die-run through, conked or poisoned.

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

The United States has the most open wine market in the world.

Some are from the world of the arts, some from the fields of business, architecture, wine-making and education. What they have in common is that they are all known nationally -- and many internationally -- for their wide-ranging achievements.