Surely, this is not less than 10
simoleons per person?
For 500
simoleons (who said magic was cheap?) you got a box with unknown innards, no clue as to what it actually did, and an endorsement from one of the fraternity that it worked wonders on your rig's sound.
What's new is that so focused an approach is now being taken seriously enough in California for folks to be sinking serious
simoleons into planting vineyards with a holistic interest in getting the grape variety in the ground that will develop its fullest flavor maturity at or near the end of the local growing season.
Of course, some of those
simoleons were spent in NH, to similarly ineffective results.
And what does the ISA do with all these
simoleons? It redistributes them to "developing" countries.
That excellence has been carved out, interestingly, by hewing for more than two decades to a premise that's fairly simple, and that has nothing to do with chic names, glitzy labels, or millions of
simoleons. It is simply that Thompson feels that wine puts its best foot forward when it is in utter harmony and when it goes with food, when all the elements are there to provide a balance of flavors and scents, and that when it is matched with your victuals, it makes life better.
John Breaux (D-La.) opened Breaux Lott, and they've been raking in the
simoleons ever since.