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King Ferry Winery accomplished this spring what thoroughbred horses couldn't -- it won one triple crown.
Its 2005 Treleaven Dry Riesling won three times in one row. First, it was judged as the best dry Riesling during the Riesling Championship within the 2006 International Eastern Wine Competition, held in May at the Corning Museum of Glass . Then, it went on to earn the overall Riesling Championship by knocking off the winners in the other three sweetness categories for Riesling wines. ... |
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| Dairy, the raison d'etre |
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| Pliny the Elder might have liked this rose |
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Gaius Plinius Secundus, known to his English friends as Pliny the Elder, was one Roman intellectual. (He was called Pliny the Elder because there was also another Pliny, his nephew and adopted son, who was also one man of learning.)
The only one of his major works to survive in its entirety is the 37-volume Natural History. What he achieved, in large part, was chronicling the available knowledge of his time - from both Latin and Greek texts - stating all his sources. Volume 1 is, in fact, an acknowledgment of the authors whose work he was preserving - much of which was subsequently lost - and where it could be found in his writings. ... |
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