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For over three decades, the U.S. has consistently imported more than it has exported. That automatically increases foreign ownership of U.S. assets, both financial and real. Many view the trade deficit with alarm, and see it as diminishing the wealth of America. They also fear that someday the U.S. will be unable to pay off its debt to foreign interests, or that the exchange value of the dollar will collapse. A closer look will show that these fears are unrealistic. Continue...
Seven months before the exhibition opens its doors, Vinexpo, the international wine and spirits exhibition taking place in Bordeaux, France from June 21st to June 25th 2009, has already reached its sales objectives and will have a total booth area of more than 430,000 square feet. Large international companies like Marnier Lapostolle, Concha y Toro, Taittinger and Remy Cointreau were the first to register. Continue...
"The Radicchio Rosso di Treviso and the Variegato di Castelfranco (varieties of leaf chicory typical of the Treviso area) continue to be the centerpiece of winter menus", said Arturo Filippini, President of the Consorzio Ristoranti del Radicchio (Consortium of the Radicchio restaurants). "Thanks to the cooperation of friendly restauranteurs in the Tyrolean area, we are able to showcase our province to all of the Alpine tourists once again this year." Continue...
From Thursday, January 22, to Wednesday, January 28, 2009, the Consortium of the Brunello di Montalcino is organizing the US version of the event Benvenuto Brunello (Welcome Brunello), to introduce the new releases – 2004 and 2003 Riserva – in San Francisco, California, and New York City.
Because of the dramatic terror attack in Mumbay and subsequent alarm for possible attacks in New Delhi, the Indian leg of Vinitaly World Tour, planned for the 14th and 15th of January 2009, has been suspended and postponed to an undisclosed date in 2009. Continue...
Friday, December 12, 2009, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge, Alan Jaroslovsky, rejected attempts by Napa's Copia: The American Center For Wine, Food and the Arts, to secure a $2 million emergency loan to pay expenses and reopen while it tries to reorganize $80 million in debts. Napa's Charter Oak Bank agreed to lend Copia $2 million, but requested for its debt to be secured ahead of bond investors who lent $78 million to the establishment to build its 12-acre complex, which opened in 2001. Continue...
Ontario's Liquor Control Board (LCBO) is recalling an Italian wine, but not for the usual reasons.
George Soleas, the board's vice-president of quality assurance, said Tuesday there is no risk to the public, in fact, some of the magnum 1,500-milliliter bottles of 2007 D'Aquino Pinot Grigio delle Venezie are nothing but water. Continue...
The 2008 Italian harvest is expected to push wine production above that of neighboring France. This would be the first time in 10 years, thus Italy would be the world's largest wine producer for the year.
The Coldiretti farmers association's expect production to be up 8% over the previous year, with a total of 4.7 billion liters, compared with 4.44 billion liters harvested in France, where production was down 5%. Continue...
With the entree "Tubetti di bronzo con coccio, cozze e marroni di Roccadaspide su Coulis di broccoli scoppiettati e pomodorino fritto" (Small Brass Tubes with Shard, Mussels and Chestnuts from Roccadaspide on Sheared Broccoli Coulis and Little Fried Tomatoes), paired with the wine Valentina 2007 Fiano Paestum IGT, produced by Azienda Rotolo di Rutino, maitre Maurizio Calabrese of the restaurant Tenuta Capodifiume Ristorante Le Trabe, won the 15th Great Temples' Award), a gastronomic competition reserved to professional maitres. Continue...
The second Bleu Wine Expo - Salon Professionnel des Vignerons Indépendants de Provence Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Professional Salon of Independent Winemakers from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), will take place in Marseille the 26th and 27th of January 2009. The show offers the opportunity to meet over 100 independent vintners who are very much committed to their profession. Visitors will have the chance to discover a great variety of wines, from Vin de Pays (Table Wine) to famous Provence appellations, to wines which offer good price/quality ratios. Continue...
For the first time ever, researchers at The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) have sequenced the genome of a wine yeast, thus paving the way for the development of new yeast strains, This can potentially lead to innovative winemaking solutions, factually increasing winemakers' options to create wines with desired flavor, aroma, and alcohol content. Continue...
"It's a very bad sign when the wine buyer for an upscale restaurants which has been on business for 57 years in posh Tiburon, offering a breathtaking view of the San Francisco Bay Area and the city in the background calls you up three weeks before Christmas to advise you to arrange to pick up the unsold wines from your portfolio which are still unsold, hoping that the accountant will be able to pay you whatever was sold sometime in the future," said WineCountry.IT president, Loris Scagliarini. Continue...
Sicilian journalist, Martino Ragusa, launched his new Italian Cuisine Manifesto on the occasion of the annual Pellegrino Cooking Festival, held the 19th and 20th of September, 2008.
Let it be said: there is no Italian national cuisine. This provocative idea by Martino Ragusa was the underlying theme of the fifth Pellegrino Cooking Festival, organized by the historic wine estate Carlo Pellegrino S.p.a. in Marsala, Sicily. The event consists of a wine and food extravaganza featuring the best expressions of the Italian cuisine. Continue...
This month we present two DOP cheeses produced in the North of Italy: the well known Grana Padano DOP, a cheese appreciated by gourmands worldwide, and the less known, though not less savory, Grana Trentino DOP, produced exclusively in the province of Trento.
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For over three decades, the U.S. has consistently imported more than it has exported. That automatically increases foreign ownership of U.S. assets, both financial and real. Many view the trade deficit with alarm, and see it as diminishing the wealth of America. They also fear that someday the U.S. will be unable to pay off its debt to foreign interests, or that the exchange value of the dollar will collapse. A closer look will show that these fears are unrealistic.
Seven months before the exhibition opens its doors, 
"The Radicchio Rosso di Treviso and the Variegato di Castelfranco (varieties of leaf chicory typical of the Treviso area) continue to be the centerpiece of winter menus", said Arturo Filippini, President of the Consorzio Ristoranti del Radicchio (Consortium of the Radicchio restaurants). "Thanks to the cooperation of friendly restauranteurs in the Tyrolean area, we are able to showcase our province to all of the Alpine tourists once again this year."
From Thursday, January 22, to Wednesday, January 28, 2009, the Consortium of the Brunello di Montalcino is organizing the US version of the event Benvenuto Brunello (Welcome Brunello), to introduce the new releases – 2004 and 2003 Riserva – in San Francisco, California, and New York City.
Because of the dramatic terror attack in Mumbay and subsequent alarm for possible attacks in New Delhi, the Indian leg of Vinitaly World Tour, planned for the 14th and 15th of January 2009, has been suspended and postponed to an undisclosed date in 2009.
Friday, December 12, 2009, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge, Alan Jaroslovsky, rejected attempts by Napa's Copia: The American Center For Wine, Food and the Arts, to secure a $2 million emergency loan to pay expenses and reopen while it tries to reorganize $80 million in debts. Napa's Charter Oak Bank agreed to lend Copia $2 million, but requested for its debt to be secured ahead of bond investors who lent $78 million to the establishment to build its 12-acre complex, which opened in 2001.
Ontario's Liquor Control Board (LCBO) is recalling an Italian wine, but not for the usual reasons.
The 2008 Italian harvest is expected to push wine production above that of neighboring France. This would be the first time in 10 years, thus Italy would be the world's largest wine producer for the year.
With the entree "Tubetti di bronzo con coccio, cozze e marroni di Roccadaspide su Coulis di broccoli scoppiettati e pomodorino fritto" (Small Brass Tubes with Shard, Mussels and Chestnuts from Roccadaspide on Sheared Broccoli Coulis and Little Fried Tomatoes), paired with the wine Valentina 2007 Fiano Paestum IGT, produced by Azienda Rotolo di Rutino, maitre Maurizio Calabrese of the restaurant Tenuta Capodifiume Ristorante Le Trabe, won the 15th Great Temples' Award), a gastronomic competition reserved to professional maitres.
For the first time ever, researchers at The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) have sequenced the genome of a wine yeast, thus paving the way for the development of new yeast strains, This can potentially lead to innovative winemaking solutions, factually increasing winemakers' options to create wines with desired flavor, aroma, and alcohol content.
"It's a very bad sign when the wine buyer for an upscale restaurants which has been on business for 57 years in posh Tiburon, offering a breathtaking view of the San Francisco Bay Area and the city in the background calls you up three weeks before Christmas to advise you to arrange to pick up the unsold wines from your portfolio which are still unsold, hoping that the accountant will be able to pay you whatever was sold sometime in the future," said 
Sicilian journalist, Martino Ragusa, launched his new Italian Cuisine Manifesto on the occasion of the annual Pellegrino Cooking Festival, held the 19th and 20th of September, 2008.
