Wine News - December 2008 |
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Welcome to
VOLUME VI,
NUMBER 11 of Wine News, the e-Letter from the WineCountry.IT network. (Would you
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- Read about the Italian Flavor Forum events:
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The tenth Italian Flavor Forum, organized on Wednesday, November 12, 2008, at the Golden Gate Yacht Club of San Francisco, which was dedicated in particular to the Centellino Areadivino, was particularly satisfying. The positive outcome was in part due to the presence at the show of the owner and general manager of Table Top, the Tuscan company which created the Centellino Areadivino, as well as Joe Fiorino, managing partner of Fiorino Italian Imports, L.L.C., which distributes the Centellino in the US, with the exception of California, where WineCountry.IT distributes directly.
Afraid that we might get bored, we are already working at another event to be held in January at the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco, thus, technically, the next trade show will be held on Italian territory.
In the meantime, we offer a variety of articles concerning Italian wine, food and lifestyle.
Virtually raising a stem glass filled with a delicious Italian sparkling wine to toast to the approaching 2009, WineCountry.IT editors whish happy holiday to all subscribers, who follow us month after month.
Loris Scagliarini, WineCountry.IT President |
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Story of a Friendship |
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 It's a winter night. Inside a wood and glass house by the sea, not far from Capo Passero, Sicily. Five friends, sitting around a table, watch the big waves swollen by the sirocco wind while lazily savoring a Nero d'Avola wine. Chatting quietly, the five friends let their minds wander, fantasizing about a wine which would be able to express the nature and culture of this corner of Trinacria (ancient name of Sicily). A wine which grasps and communicates the emotion which never fails to overcome the visitor who finds himself in this part of the island with open eyes and the open heart. This wine would narrate the complex beauty of this corner of land.
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Paolo Cacciani Cuisine in Turin |
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The Salone del Gusto di Torino (Turin Taste Salon) trade show took place from October 23 to October 27, 2008. At the booth Enoteca Palatium of the exhibition entitled Sapori e Suggestioni della Provincia di Roma (Flavors and Suggestions from the Province of Rome), organized in collaboration with the Agricultural Council of Rome, there was an interesting food presentation by Paolo Cacciani, which featured recipes used by grandfgather Leopoldo since 1922 at the famous trattoria in Frascati, which in time evolved into an important restaurant and hotel.
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Ornellaia's Masseto:
First Italian Wine Sold Through the Place de Bordeaux |
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 Tenuta dell'Ornellaia will be the first Italian estate to sell a wine, the Masseto 2006, through the Place de Bordeaux, the Bordeaux-based marketplace which traditionally trades classified growths and a small number of foreign icon wines.
The Masseto 2006 is a 100% Merlot wine made from a single seven hectare (around 17.3 acres) vineyard in Bolgheri. It will be released in October 2009 and five Bordeaux négociants will market around 6000 bottles, or about 20% of the total production.
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A Female Sangiovese Master 2008 |
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 On Tuesday, November 25, 2008, the award for the Trofeo Consorzio Vini di Romagna – 8° Master del Sangiovese (Consortium of Romagna Wine Trophy – 8th Sangiovese Master), was assigned to Tuscan sommelier Simona Bizzarri, at the Enoteca Regionale dell'Emilia Romagna. This is one of the most important Italian enological competition where the main feature is always the Sangiovese, one of the most appreciated Italian grapes and wines world wide.
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 On November 12, 2008, at San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club, the tenth Italian Flavor Forum, dedicated in particular to presenting the Centellino Areadivino, the amazing top-of-the-bottle aerator which oxygenates the wine naturally and in real time, officially to the local press. The Centellino, designed and produced in Italy by Table Top and imported to the US by WineCountry.IT L.L.C., opens the aroma and flavor of a wine while it pours into the glass, obtaining results comparable to letting the wine breath for a couple of hours in a regular decanter.
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The Association Città del Tartufo Received by the Agriculture Commission |
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 On Thursday, November 13, 2008, the Associazione Nazionale Città del Tartufo (National Association of the Truffle Cities) was received by the Agricultural Commission of the Camera dei Deputati (similar to US House of representatives). The Association renewed the invitation to revise the law number 752/85 related to the harvesting and marketing of truffles, which is considered outdated and not attuned to the current needs of this commercial sector.
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In Russia Wine Speaks Italian |
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 Certainly Brunello and Barolo, but also Amarone, Nero d'Avola and overall, sparklers, which have left the French Champagne in the dust, are all gaining momentum in Russia. Additionally, the consumption of Italian wines continues to increase. These were some of the observations heard in Moscow during the 2008 Interdrink, the Alcoholic Beverage Trade Show which took place in the Russian capital city from the 5th to the 7th of November.
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