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California’s Riboli family, of the historic San Antonio Winery in downtown Los Angeles is proud to announce the award of Wine Enthusiast’s “American Winery of the Year”. The 101-year-old San Antonio Winery has been a beloved fixture in the Los Angeles community bringing the taste of California and Italy’s finest wines to the greater area and across...

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Luxury Italian wine producer Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi has undertaken a number of changes across its business over the past year, chief among them a complete reorganization of its U.S. route to market. That effort resulted in the end of Frescobaldi’s 20-year partnership with the Mondavi family in favor of an alignment with two new importers—Shaw-Ros...

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Una recente ricerca condotta sui lettori di Wine Spectator conferma che il vino italiano è molto apprezzato dai consumatori americani e spesso rappresenta la categoria di prodotto importato preferita. L’analisi svolta sul numero di ottobre 2018 della rivista ha misurato in particolare l’efficacia della campagna di comunicazione Italian Wine - Taste...

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There’s nothing quite like a delicious seasonal pie. Especially when there’s a hefty splash of booze in the mix. But while it’s common to include sweet spirits like bourbon or flavored liqueurs, sparkling wine doesn’t usually enter the conversation of boozy pie ingredients. Until now, that is. Landing just in time for the holidays, RUFFINO Wines an...

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When Giancarlo Paterlini was preparing to open a high-end Italian restaurant with his business partner, the chef Suzette Gresham, he needed to compile a list of high-end Italian wines. Only it was 1989, and there weren’t many high-end Italian wines to be had. At the time, Paterlini says, you couldn’t even get balsamic vinegar stateside. Where was h...

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The universe of Italian wine is vast — maybe, ultimately, unknowable. Over 2,000 indigenous grape varieties originated in the country, claims expert Ian D’Agata, more than Spain, France and Greece combined. (Of those, just 377 are cultivated, according to Jancis Robinson’s “Wine Grapes.”) Some, like Sangiovese and Nebbiolo, will sound familiar (at...

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Considering the fact that my wife, Michelle is 100 percent Italian it would be imprudent for me not to have a fondness for Italian wine.  Regardless of my desire for domestic harmony I have to say in all honesty that I have a strong affinity for the Italian varietals, as well as other international grapes grown on the Italian peninsula and islands....

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Many times have I found myself on a narrow back road in Italy, surrounded by hills, trees and vineyards, to see nothing else but a little country winery in the distance. Eventually I would end up stopping by that wine producer, not knowing what to expect, to see if I could taste their wines and hear their story. Sometimes I would taste wines that h...

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Gambero Rosso, an Italian media company that has covered the best food, wine and travel of Italy since 1986—and which publishes an authoritative Wines of Italy guide annually—announced various categories of wine winners for this year. Their designated Winery of the Year is Cantine Ferrari, which produces sparkling wines in the northern Italian Tren...

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C’è chi gli ha chiesto un corso di cucina, come l’attrice Jessica Alba poche settimane fa, e chi invece ha voluto una degustazione di vini italiani, come l’ex presidente americano Barack Obama e, prima di lui, vip del calibro di Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson o Bryan Adams. Qualunque sia la richiesta, lui ha la ricetta giusta. Perché per Filippo Bar...

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