People will bring him Champagne or a great Italian wine like a Luce Brunello di Montalcino.
This year, nearly a billion bottles' worth of French and Italian wine are expected to meet that ignominious end.
The Soho Hotel in London has a great staff and bar, unbeatable location and the minibar has nice Italian wine.
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"Back in Piemonte, nature is not totally our friend, " notes northern Italian wine icon Angelo Gaja, who began planting for his Ca'Marcanda near Bolgheri in 1996.
Andreas Dunkel of the Technical University of Munich deconstructed the molecules present in a high-value Italian wine, finding some 82 taste-active compounds that were responsible for the wine's distinctive taste.
Italian wine expert Ian d'Agata is a frequent contributor.
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Toppings are traditional and locally sourced where possible such as the creamy buffalo mozzarella delivered from a farm in Somerset and are best washed down with a glass of organic Ottavio Rube Italian wine.
Then in his early 20s, Mr. Graves drank a lot of Italian wine during those years ("probably Frascati we weren't connoisseurs in those days, " he said, naming the simple white wine made in Lazio, the province of Rome).
For a flat fee of 130 Argentinean pesos, tour-goers receive an Italian crystal wine glass along with a map indicating each stop on the circuit.
In keeping with all the best Italian enotecas (wine bistros), the ceiling is hung with a variety of dried salamis, held together with frayed strings and wax.
But the aggressive pricing at the top end may have masked a marketing issue in the mainstream U.S. market: After all, Australian wines just recently surpassed French wines as America's favorite import after Italian (California wine dominates overall, with 67% of the market).
Along with Clone 5 pinot noir from California, Vaynerchuk likes the Starry Night Lodi Zinfandel, which he says "sings with food, " and the Bacio Divino Pazzo, an Italian-style wine made in California, with a touch of the white variety Viognier blended in to mellow it.
Try marinating meat, chicken or fish in marinades, soy sauce, sweet fruit juices, wine or Italian-style dressings.
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If you smoke, Yorkville's Prego della Piazza , a spot favored by visiting movie stars, offers pricey Italian, a fine wine list-and ashtrays.
With a salad, a loaf of crusty Italian bread and some red wine (homemade, if you were lucky), Sunday dinner was complete.
Whether you want to cook like an Italian, buff up on wine or fight like a gladiator, there is a school ready to teach you how.
Hours spent enjoying lamb, pasta, homemade wine and large Italian chocolate eggs, hollowed out with a prize inside was a perfectly local way to end a festive pilgrimage to Rome.
When rival producers in California, like Gallo and Italian Swiss Colony, began selling wine under their own national brands, Sands created Richards, concocting it not from the Vitis vinifera grapes used in France and California but the generic grapes grown in upstate New York.
Milan-based interior designer Ilaria Miani styled their rooms in a palette of deep reds, powdery lavender and asparagus green, installing Italian-made furnishings, kitchens and wine cellars.
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The three day schedule is packed with classes on topics ranging from wine and cheese pairing to classic Italian cuisine to mixology.
In all the best Pinot Gris, whether produced as an Alsatian dessert wine or a crisp table wine from the foothills of the Italian Alps, the grape itself has the mojo to be the star.
On Saturdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. they host a free wine tasting from their generous selection of mostly Italian bottles.
The rest of the house has high-end features like Italian marble, mahogany cabinetry, onyx slab flooring, wine and piano room, two pools, billiard room and solar power-generating system.
The runaway vintage is quite a feat for the Casella winery, founded by two Italian immigrants in 1969, which only recently was selling wine to the company that's now its main competitor, Southcorp, the Sydney-based giant.
More seriously, fraud perpetrated by winemakers themselves led to 24 deaths in 1986, when a handful of Italian winemakers used methyl alcohol, an ingredient in antifreeze, to sweeten some wine.
The Italian pavilion, for example, will allow visitors to take simulated tours of Italy's wine country while sitting on a Vespa motorcycle.
Pinot Gris-or its wayward Italian sibling, Pinot Grigio (same grape, different name)-just might be your next white-wine love affair.
Pinot Gris--or its wayward Italian sibling, Pinot Grigio (same grape, different name)--just might be your next white-wine love affair.
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