Tasting sized pours

Resveratrol, the life-extending component in red wine that provides guilt-free gluttony and cardiovascular-improving sloth, has been flying off the shelves in pill form. [WSJ$]

I have two words for you: “divorce.” When asked how she coped with her three wedding ceremonies this summer, Pamela Anderson said “I have two words for you: champagne.” Now she and Kid Rock are filing for divorce. Was it Borat who came between them? [CNN]

mouton04 The screen writer who wrote Lethal Weapon has signed up to write the script for a movie based on the 1976 Paris Tasting and last year’s book, The Judgment of Paris. Whoa! Robert Mark Kamen actually owns a 100 acre vineyard in Sonoma–unlike the most recent screenwriter to have a go at writing a screenplay who admitted he didn’t know anything about wine. [Decanter]

A watercolor by an artist going by the name of Prince Charles–yes, in fact, the heir to the British throne–will appear on the label of Mouton Rothschild 2004, the forgotten vintage. [Decanter]

And in final diplomatic news, the US is cutting Kim Jong-Il off from his wine–and iPods, jet skis, and Whitney Houston movies in a new round of sanctions against the “Dear Leader” of North Korea. [AP]

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