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I'm not sure who's having sex with whom, but [yellow tail] managed two articles in today's NY Times, one in the main paper and one in the magazine.

Animal Pragmatism
By ROB WALKER

Yellow Tail Wine

For a shortcut, clichéd summation of growing consumer sophistication, consider the wine category: Back when we didn't know anything, wine meant Blue Nun, jugs of Gallo, little bottles of Lancers and hokey Aldo Cella commercials. Nowadays we have taste, and even suburban megamarts have huge and varied wine selections for the demanding mass affluent. Of course, real wine connoisseurs have walked the earth for many years — as have nonconnoisseurs who find such people to be annoying snobs and who find today's megamart selection to be a big, bewildering taunt. It's one thing to sense that there's a huge spectrum of quality represented on that shelf, but it's something else to make a decision. Perhaps, in light of this, it's no surprise that a new factor has emerged that apparently helps many of us parse the options: the "critter label." More

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The Wallaby That Roared Across the Wine Industry
By FRANK J. PRIAL

WILLIAM J. DEUTSCH was apprehensive when he first agreed to import an unknown Australian wine called Yellow Tail into the United States in 2001. Its handsome black-and-yellow label featured what looked like a kangaroo, and he felt that animals had no place on wine labels. But he liked the wine. "So," he said recently, "I agreed to take 25,000 cases."

His son Peter disagreed about the animal, which actually was a rock wallaby. "That label is fabulous," he told his dad.
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Also noted, there's a glut of crab in Virginia. Some of you are not doing your part!

Oversupply of Crabs Hurts Virginia Watermen
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VIRGINIA BEACH, April 22 (AP) — An unusual abundance of crabs early in the season has flooded the Virginia seafood industry, dropping prices and sending watermen ashore to avoid spending more money than they earn. More.