The watch has a four-barrel power plant (is this beginning to sound like a Pontiac GTO?) in which one spring, on being wound down, transfers control to the next.

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These four-day barrel tastings, begun as a very insider-y trade presentation for wine merchants interested in selling Bordeaux futures, had become a 4, 500-person slurping festival, a rite of spring for Thai hoteliers, Texas liquor store owners and the nephew of someone's Swedish distributor.

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Back when oil cost three- and four-dollars-per-barrel, the increased use of ethanol was blamed for high food prices, food riots and starvation of the poor.

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Four months of barrel aging floats vanilla notes over this refined mezcal, with woven-in smoke and a subdued primary fruitiness.

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