While several 18th-century views of London from the Thames show a city already crowded with centuries of development, early 19th-century views of New York and the Hudson are almost Eden-like in their comparative rusticity.

WSJ: River Romantics | The Panoramic River | Hudson River Museum | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

Fortunately, there are now many excellent makers working these slopes, some of them very consciously adhering to the traditions of their ancestors, without necessarily emulating the dubious hygiene of some of the old cellars, which accounted for some of the alleged "rusticity" of the old-school juice.

WSJ: The Bacony Goodness of C?te-R?tie | On Wine by Jay McInerney