They produce top-quality white wines in a country that has traditionally specialised in vino tinto.
Vino Hirata and Scala Dei are a short taxi ride from the Roppongi entertainment district.
Just press the red button and out comes the vino, no messy drippy situation at all.
Those endless vodka toasts were a way of seeing what you were really like: in vino veritas.
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That's certainly true of my local wine shop, Amanti Vino in Montclair, N.
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New York - Oenophiles know that the savvy imbiber can find a perfectly serviceable bottle of vino on the cheap.
This is no doubt influenced by the fact that Amanti Vino is surrounded by restaurants, most of which are BYOB.
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The 2009 Vino De La Familia Blanca, made from 100% Arizona-grown Malvasia Bianca, a Mediterranean varietal of grape, is an unusual and delicious vintage.
That formula has made him, at age 70, America's first vino-billionaire.
Amanti Vino was one of several places where I shopped for the wines for my tasting (Crush Wine on 57th Street in Manhattan is another top German wine source).
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Chris Polley(ph), the owner of Jungle Vino, says his wine bar and adjoining coffee house, Java Jungle, cater to a new group of residents that live in and around downtown.
With a quietly chic decor warmed by wood floors and bistro-style tables, Vino Hirata (3456-4744) in Azabu Juban is a good choice for a quiet evening with a few friends.
South Australia is synonymous with good vino so why not sample the local drops at a hospitable wine region like McLaren Vale, 37 km from Adelaide, and the gateway to the easy-on-the-eye Fleurieu Peninsula.
Our founding fathers and, certainly Dr. Vino, would approve.
Mr. CHRIS POLLEY (Owner, Jungle Vino and Java Jungle): I would say more folks that just weren't necessarily raised here in Reno are finding this area and really making it what it is.
And, the first 100 purchasers will get a free upgrade to a simply sybaritic suite with a bottle of wine, while the next 400 purchasers will receive the same room upgrade, sans vino.
"Vino" was poised to be a top contender in last year's Tour, but when five of his nine teammates were implicated in a doping scandal, his team found themselves without enough riders to compete.
Sharon Sevrens of Amanti Vino in Montclair, N.
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It wasn't so long ago, in 2005, that cheap credit flowed like vino and venture capitalists and private equity firms had a clear path to riches--by selling shares in their portfolio companies on the open market.
They range from the inviting and informative Museo del Vino (Wine Museum) that opened in 2008 to the much-lauded Museo Picasso, opened in 2003 and housed in a former palace complete with Roman ruins in the basement.
Speckled by ancient ruins, it even has a wine route: the Strada del Vino Costa degli Etruschi, which runs south from Livorno to Piombino and across to the island of Elba, edged by searing-blue water and with views to sigh over.
But for the next five weeks, oenophiles can sip a little closer to home at the historic Claremont Hotel and Spa, just a 15km drive across the Bay Bridge, where the Berkeley Wine Festival is feting all things vino every Friday evening until 24 May.
Off-duty Michelin-starred chefs head to a local restaurant (Pane Vino) and Spring Studios, where they shoot Louis Vuitton and Salvatore Ferragamo campaigns, has forged a partnership with the New York creative mega agency, KCD so town cars purr in a backstreet where you used to fear for your hubcaps.
What Hedges fails to recognize, however, is that critical wine rating has grown in ubiquity on a parallel path with the growth of wines available to the consumer who are mostly inundated with a wall of wine and abundance of choice when all they truly want is a lovely bottle of vino for dinner.
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There are 196 wineries in British Columbia, ranging from small family-run operations on Vancouver Island to sprawling estates in the Okanagan Valley, and recent International Wine and Spirits Competition awards for local wineries like Mission Hill and Jackson-Triggs have put the area on par with other vino-heavyweights, such as France, South Africa and Argentina.
Cuando vino por primera vez a mi pais yo estaba cursando 6to grado de primaria y recuerdo que conocimos su vida, su obra en el Colegio, recuerdo las imagenes en television y lo que me venia a la mente era bondad, amistad y paz, algo que vivi cuando lo vi en su segunda visita: la paz que contagiaba era increible.
The resort has made an effort in recent years to pattern itself after European ski resorts, and added two eateries, Bon Vivant and Alpino Vino, both with decks for sunny weather, which mirror the sort of lunch you might have in Gstaad or Courchevel, a two hour affair over white tablecloths with fine wines and a certain ambiance rarely found in the States.
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