La dolce vita in a bottle, Italian wine shines best at home
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Somewhere in the heart of the medieval town of Siena, there's a trattoria, a little restaurant, where the bottle of wine the server sets at your table has no label.
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The unconventional Oslavje Bianco from Radikon. (Courtesy of pedrelli.com) Iâm about to go on vacation, so this will be my last post until after Labor Day. As Iâm about to leave Iâm thinking about some wines that Iâve enjoyed in the last week or so and how inadequate our usual descriptive language is to characterize their [...].
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Constellation reports a strong quarter, with wine leading the way.
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It has reached that stage of the night where the fifth glass of white wine is on offer. Drinking it will almost certainly guarantee that the evening enters that otherworldly domain where there is no place for inhibitions.
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Behind Giuseppe Raffael Sivo's quaint home on Manhattan Avenue in Union City, some of the best secrets of old Italy have gone into the cultivation of a vast array of crops along the lush, rich greenery of the ...
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(InfoWorld) - Baffled about which wine to pick up en route to an important holiday party where you happen to know they'll be serving elk? Business intelligence (BI) software vendor QlikTech International AB may be able to help you resolve that thorny little problem with its wine selector application. Drawing on publicly available information and his own knowledge of more than 3,000 wines, a QlikTech consultant has created The Wine Press . The seasonal online application enables users to match up a wine with particular foods or choose a bottle based on a variety of characteristics including price, color, flavor, vintage and country of origin. The Wine Press is the second in an upcoming series of consumer-type applications of BI software that QlikTech plans to showcase on its Web site, according to Anthony Deighton, the company's vice president of marketing. The first application, Kick It, Qlik It, Love It, timed to coincide with the World Cup tournament appeared this summer and enabled soccer fans to analyze game scores and players' performances. The application drew 30,000 visitors to QlikTech's Web site over the course of the six-week championship and also revealed the interesting fact that the majority of professional players' birthdays occur in the January-to-June time frame. QlikTech is hoping that presenting fun and intriguing consumer applications of BI software will help drive the widespread adoption of the technology as BI moves out of the domain of experts and into the hands of general IT users, Deighton said. The vendor's approach to BI focuses on enabling users to click their way around the technology and not require in-depth training to start using the software, he added. QlikTech intends to spotlight an application each quarter in 2007, according to Deighton. At the same time, Qliktech plans applications of more regional appeal such as football championships specific to the U.K. as well as the The Ashes cricket series played between England and Australia. While he's not expecting The Wine Press to attract as many visitors as Kick It, Qlik It, Love It, the recommendation site is already proving popular and Qliktech may well leave it in place beyond the holiday season, Deighton said. As for what wine goes best with elk? The Wine Press recommends Argentina's Broquel Malbec Mendoza red wine from 2000 as a very good value offering with flavors of coconut, fruit, mineral and oak. Enjoy! Â
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The more wine costs, the more people enjoy it, regardless of how it tastes, a study by California researchers has found.
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The new movie "Sideways" treats the subject of wine fluently and accurately, with just the right proportions of satire and respect.
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Her Italian is nearly perfect. Her demeanor is quietly polite. But the sommelier at Il Pagliaccio, a tony restaurant in Rome's historic center, isn't your average Chianti expert.
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Overlooking the southern Ukiah Valley from Lowell Stone's Fox Hill Vineyards one is transported to the romance of the Mediterranean world.
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Not fond of red wine? A new Canadian study finds that a daily beer is just as good for you. But the key is moderation. While one pint a day seemed to deliver the same antioxidant benefits as a daily glass
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A new museum in Italy features exhibits that show the link between wine and the place it comes from.
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Japan, the land of sake, began popping the corks on a record order of Beaujolais Nouveau, as wine becomes part of a culture which prizes in-season trends.
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A glass of red wine a day may reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 50 percent, claims a study by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
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Travel: From a stay in a 18th-century farmhouse in Italy to a former winery with its own stone chapel in Corsica.
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Plans are afoot for excess wine to be turned into ethanol for the European alternative fuel market -- but not in Italy where the fruit of the vine is sacred. By Bernhard Warner from Wired magazine.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Nearly half of Americans are expected to celebrate Valentine's Day with a special night out. If money is no object and the finest wines are available which vintage should you select?