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Guarantee Your Lobster With Catch a Piece of Maine

Filed under: Dining


If you've ever watched the show Lobster Wars, you know that obtaining lobster is no easy task. Now you can be part of the lobster experience without the hard work by investing in Catch a Piece of Maine. A partnership, which costs $2,995, entitles you to the proceeds of one lobster trap. Your trap will be fished by one of the eight lobstermen participating in the program. During each trip your lobsterman will record the catch from the trap.

The number of lobsters caught in your trap, each time your lobsterman checks it, will be credited to your personal lobster account. At any time you can have lobsters from your account shipped anywhere in the continental U.S. You are guaranteed at least 40 lobsters from your trap. Each shipment comes as a complete lobster dinner, and with every four lobsters ordered, you receive a pound of steamer clams, a pound of mussels, four servings of blueberry cheesecake, butter, lemon and lobster utensils and bibs.

Those who sign up during the holidays will be credits with 12 lobsters so that they can use them during the holiday season, but the traps go in May 1, and are pulled out on December 31.

Is Vintage Becoming Meaningless?

Filed under: Wine

The London Sunday Times has a provocative article on vintage wine. Noted wine critic Hugh Johnson has said that due to advanced agricultural techniques, the concept of vintage is becoming obsolete. Johnson says that wine growers have become so adept at handling bad weather and other crop problems that just about every year is a good year. Johnson's words come in the pages of his 2008 edition of the Pocket Wine Book.

Johnson says that the concern over vintage is driving the high end of the market unnecessarily and that the "non-prestigious" years are better than they have ever been. Is Johnson correct or is he suffering from wine fatigue? In the article he is quoted as saying that he sometimes misses the days when he could write off an unfortunate vintage and that he feels that most wines are now remarkably similar. While Johnson's theory could probably handily proven in a blind tasting it seems unlikely to me that the fretting over vintages is going anywhere anytime soon. It is far too entrenched in the romance of wine culture to be easily discarded even if the intrinsic value of it has faded.


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