European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Loti abound that Are Sura to please the wine Conno staur. Gifts for the wine enthusiast by Frank pr1al new York times for most of the year the average win enthusiast is a mixed , cultured world travelled an definitely plugged in he or she can with their vintages and chateaus and All that quickly i urn into a bore. There is one time of year however when even the most tedious Wina fanatic becomes something of a cynosure right now christmastime. Why because the wine enthusiast to the easiest person in the world to buy a Gilt Lor thai Holiday Nemesis the person who has everything is nol a person who appreciates wine. No wine Lover Ever has enough wine. Or Wina glasses. Or wine books. So compelling s this person s need for More 01 anything associated with wine thai for once Price really does nol count. Well nol much. If Lor example there is a Corkscrew out there thai the wine enthusiast Dees not have. He wants it. If it is a $150 Corkscrew he wants it. If it is a $5 Corkscrew he wants it just As much he must have them both. The giver of the $5 Corkscrew is just As honoured As the giver of the $1 so one. More so. If the $5 one was particularly hard to find. Nor must wine gilts to limited to Wina initiates. A bottle of Sherry might do very nicely for an elderly aunt. A bottle of Champagne might Appeal loan elderly Uncle or to the couple who have invited you Lor dinner on a Holiday weekend. People who May never have lasted a Glass in heir lives know wine is fashionable and will be flattered to receive a bottle of Ilas a gift. There Are Pitfalls however. Wine May Well be the most practical of gifts but some of the trivia it generates is ridiculous. Or rather it would be ridiculous in it did not Cost so much and if some people did nol Lake it so seriously. The decanting Cradle for example is a Gill catalogue perennial. Some old wines Are decanted to separate their sidemen a from the wine. Anyone with a reasonably steady grip which includes most of the world s sommeliers decant by hand. The decanting Cradle provides an alternative. It is a Rube Goldberg device the one i have in mind consists of a brass framework attached to a Wood or Marble base. The bottle is held tall in this Cradle. By turning a Crank the bottle is tipped slowly and the wine pours into a Wall no decanter. A strategically placed Candle enables tie pourer to watch the wine run through the neck of the bottle. Pouring stops when sediment begins to appear in the neck friends will be impressed they should be. The Cradle i have described costs More than $200 they Are All expensive especially when you think Back on the number of sediment throwing wines you have tasted lately. A til lie refrigerator to hold 44 bottles of wine Al a steady 53 to 57 degrees can be had Lor $649 with a ther Opane door or $995 Lor French Oak. I have seen a similar item with three temperatures for 210 bottles for $1,995. Reduced from $2.500, ii these glorified ice boxes Are too much Lor you How about a Jar of Zinfandel Mustard no kidding it even comes with a Sutler Home Label. Sutler Home winery makes excellent Zinfandel. I cannot vouch Lor its Mustard however. There is a chardonnay Mustard allegedly made with wine irom Sebastiani vineyards and a Champagne Mustard said to include a bit of the bubbly irom Hans Kornell. Does Sebastiani chardonnay blend nicely into Mustard does hens Kornell Champagne i see a vast new Field Lor experts tastings judging press previews recipe books exclusively for Zinfandel Mustard. In any eve if this sort of thing appeals to your sense of humor the three Mustard can be Lound in gourmet shops and in fancy food Cata logs for around �20 plus shipping. Then there if the Napa Valley wine game in which the object is to amass Points by visiting wineries collecting cases of wine a Calistoga bumper Slicker and returning to san Francisco  the game costs $29.95 plus $3.85 shipping from the wine enthusiast 70 memorial Plaza . Box 39, pleasant ills . 10570. For that Money you could buy two bottles of commery Brut Royal and have enough left Over for a bottle of Georges Dubo Eul s 1985 Chenab at any Good wine shop. For the same Price As the Mustard delivered it would be easy to pick up a bottle of the new rms Brandy the California Brandy made by sch Ramsberg vineyards and the people from Remy Martin. Those temperature controlled storage boxes Cost As much As a cellar full of modest wines and the Money it would Lake to buy the silly Cradle would easily cover a Case of 19b3 chateau Talbot or six magnums of 1983 chateau Lynch Bages. By Joan Hanauer United press International Oll the Dice pick a card go property the annual Hood of arrived to Puzzle preoccupy t millions of fun seekers around 1 there s a new entry irom the Pursuit to another that was last Market game intended for women Only. There s or instead of building a belter Mousetrap Hilo play that old favorite monopoly i the game from to s creators is called ? to ubi. And it will reveal its players know of geography. It is nol played on a boat marked map of he world. The map is Pap unfortunately won t take the Wear and Tea each question begins with the word ubi i asks a geography question. Example ubi \ Cincinnati or ubi Leonardo a answer that s the easy part. The hard part is to the map with the help of a Gadget called i who loved showing of their knowledge of disconcerting to reveal their Lack of it in 91 the game Lor women Only is called a which it in t winning or losing that counts game and discuss relationships. J the game has a Board tokens and car of love and sex family work friends an called the lady picks a card in a Cali die then answers the multiple Choice que byjoe Hanauer United press International Here s More than play my making up and marketing a Bea but the inventors Are in ii Lor take Chris Haney one of the responsible Lor trivial Pursuit introduced in China and saudi Arabia or countries in which it in sold. Games mag Tot Abd �831 million in retail sales since i years ago. To sold More than 40 million games in Haney said. Nothing like it has Ever half Haney and his partners could have res and their profits but instead Are Lavundi called the world according to ubi. I had no intention of doing another a a interview. I guess we were inspired by Al Haney said there were about 104 Irnita Stales Are knt Britain Una latin Al did he a vervet co Ukoh Catege then world Playa i know the Onsri layout by Matroit Milo Page 14 the stars and stripes