These Swiss minimalists made their mark in America last year with the Dominus winery in Yountville, California.

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On the European constitution, Mr Sarkozy occupies a position somewhere in between the maximalists, such as Germany - who would like the new text to mirror the old one as closely as possible - and the minimalists, such as the UK, who want as few changes as possible to the existing EU treaties.

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