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Thread #42545   Message #619502
Posted By: Rolfyboy6
01-Jan-02 - 02:29 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Name of apartments, condos, townhouses
Subject: RE: What's in a Name??
Here in the wine/redwood country of Northern California we are afflicted with newcomers building fake chateau (Walt Disney design) and naming things 'Clos' or 'Close'. Most new 'boutique' wineries have names like Peju Provence Winery and Clos du Val and Sanguinetti Estates.

The Wine Country Rich Yuppie divorce: He made his money with a start-up company or a direct mail catalog. Now he dreams of his own picture perfect vineyard/winery, and standing at the bar of the Meadowood Country Club during the annual charity wine auction with rich and powerful men. She dreams of having her French Provincial kitchen shown in Architectural Digest. After two years they discover to their horror 'viticuture' is FARMING and your armpits smell in high summer. After eight years they hate each other and get a divorce.