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Show DROVE GUORMET TO SARCASM Evidently Fhench Restaurant Wine Was Not Exactly the Quality He Had Ordeied. William E. Corey praised at a Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh club the wines of California. "Our California wines," said the steel magnate, "are much better than wines of a similar price in France, for French wines are so adulterated today that even a high-priced one often tastes like burnt sugar and water." "But the fine wines, the 'grand cru' wines are wonderful," a young banker interrupted. Mr. Corey shook his head. "Not always," he said. "A friend of mine, a gourmet with whom I lunched not long ago at a fashionable boulevard restaurant in Paris, ordered a bottle of very old celebrated Mar-gaux. Mar-gaux. Pouring out a little of the wine and rolling it on his tongue in true gourmet fashion he made a wry face. "'Waiter!' he demanded. 'What wine is this you brought me?' " 'It is what monsieur ordered,' was the reply. 'Margaux 1S95, grand cru.' " 'Humph,' sneered by friend, 'how lucky it is to be so old and to conceal its age so well.' " |