The resulting wine is crisp and intensely flavored with notes of crushed red cherries and yellow apple.

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If you can't locate the platonic ideal of goat meat, you can "tame" stronger-flavored cuts with a long bath in wine, olive oil and aromatics, plus a little salt, Mr. Canales said.

WSJ: Get Your Goat On

In warmer regions-including those in most of central and southern Italy-the grape is picked early with an eye toward keeping its acidity up, and produces a relatively neutral-flavored grape whose chief claim to our affections is the crispness of its wine.

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