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The Avant-Garde of Osteria Francescana

Marko Kovac
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4 min read
Half way into the lunch, Giuseppe Palmieri is doing the unimaginable. He has brought three bottles to the table — a German Riesling, a French Chenin and an Italian Malvasia. “You see-this wine is too young, this one is too ‘hard’ and this one is too aromatic,” Palmieri says before

Envisioning Wine’s Future

David White
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3 min read
On Super Bowl Sunday, some 1.25 billion chicken wings were consumed alongside 11 million pounds of potato chips, 4 million pounds of pretzels, and 2.5 million pounds of nuts. Massive quantities of beer helped wash all that down -- nearly 50 million cases worth were sold on Sunday alone. It's

Stop That Train! Save Lugana Wine

Elisabetta Tosi
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6 min read
Let’s imagine a relaxing, colorful place, or, as described by the Italian singer-songwriter Roberto Vecchioni, a site with "scattered houses, cobblestone streets, uninterrupted rows of trees, patches of olive trees, rosemary, roses, twisted and mighty oaks, inns that suddenly appear, where you sit down, drink the fresh Lugana, chat, have

Five Bottles: A New Old Way to Evaluate Wine

Meg Houston Maker
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6 min read
There is a small fraternity of bottles that have, over the years, ebbed and flowed as my family’s house wine. They’re mostly red—Côtes du Rhône, Vacqueyras, Barbera, Valpolicella—plus a little white and rosé. All are under $20, and even cheaper by the case. These are table wines, drunk with meals

Orange Gateway: An Unexpected Use for Skin-Macerated Whites

Mike Riccetti
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4 min read
The Collio appellation, at Italy’s northeastern edge, offers an impressive array of wines.  A number of varieties, both indigenous and French, thrive in its unique, mineral-rich soil and its temperate climate, buttressed by the Alps to the north and the Mediterranean to the south.  Sauvignon, as Sauvignon Blanc is called