Topic: Italy
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - As the prices trickled out for the first tranche of the 2009 Bordeaux vintage being sold en primeurs, there was shock and awe. They had doubled and, in some cases, tripled what had been asked for the ...
From the National Geographic book The 10 Best of Everything 1. Auberge du Soleil Rutherford, California 
Napa Valley's magical wine country is the backdrop for this elegant hotel. The accommodations feature Mediterranean decor; guests have their choice of rooms in the main ...
Italy: Brunello regains US trust; Tuscan wine no longer needs special approval for shipmentItaly's agriculture minister says Brunello di Montalcino wine has regained U.S. trust and no longer needs special approval for shipment to American markets. Two years ago, Italy created a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Elisabetta Fagiuoli's elegant appearance, grey-hair and bright brown eyes, conceal a steely firm commitment to ancient methods of cultivating grapes and a belief that women traditionally make the wine. When she was growing up in Custozza, not ...
Italy's Asti Spumante sparkling wine is on course to outsell French Champagne as revellers around the world toast in the New Year, a study for an agricultural trade magazine predicted Tuesday. Some 140 million bottles of the festive fizz from Italy's northern ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - No kick from Champagne? Sparkling wines from around the globe can be a cheaper alternative and better value, according to leading experts. "We noticed a real trade down from Champagne to sparkling wines," said Chris Adams of ...
ERBUSCO, Italy (Reuters Life!) - It's hard to beat champagne but makers of top-shelf Italian bubbly franciacorta aim to establish their product as an alternative, using a blend of high quality and shrewd marketing. Franciacorta wine is made from the same grapes ...
Grape Muscat By Didier LeScraigne Muscat grape has been involved in wine making from the ancient times. Even though it was first found in a Greek vineyard, an Arab world name got somehow attached to it. Romans brought it into France during ...
Terroir - What is It? By Warren Gregory The Greeks realized it, the Romans realized it and the French and modern Europeans have codified it into law. The place a wine's grapes are grown has an impact on the aroma and flavor ...
The Italian Wine Guide By Albina Fabiani Italian wine glowing reputation is due not only to the fact that it produces and exports more than any other country but that it offers the greatest variety of types, ranging through nearly every colour, ...
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